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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1901 Excerpt: ... CHAPTER I Jp' The sea laughed. It thrilled beneath the warm light breath of the wind, and its surface became covered with faint ripples, reflecting dazzingly the sun; whilst, with its. thousand silvery lips it laughed back to the sky. The vast space between the sea and the sky seemed 6. filled with the joyful hum of wave-voices, rippling up, one after the other, over the flat shore of the sandy cape. This sound blended with the flashes of sunlight, reflected a thousandfold by the sea, and melted harmoniously into one ceaseless agita Q-tion full of living joy. The sky was happy as it N. poured forth light; the sea was happy as it reflected j the glory of the sunlight. /) The wind caressed the smooth powerful bosom of the sea, warmed by the sun's ardent rays; and the ocean seemed to sigh as if fatigued with these amorous caresses; it filled the burning air with the salt smell of its emanations. The greenish waves, lapping the yellow sands, tossed forwards the white froth of their crests, which melted with gentle hissing sounds, moistening the foreshore.... The long narrow tongue of earth resembled some enormous tower which had fallen on to its side into the sea. Its slender point was planted in the vast solitude of the water, laughing up to the sun; § whilst its base seemed lost in the distance, where a warm haze hid the mainland. There came from thence with the breeze a heavy smell, incomprehensible and offensive out here, in the midst of the wild pure sea, under the dome of clear blue sky. Fixed in the sand, which seemed in part covered': with fish-scales, were wooden posts. From these fishing-nets hung to dry, casting delicate shadows, fine and lightqaspiders'-webs. A few large boats iy and one smaller one lay in a line on the beach, and the waves as ...
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- PublisherGeneral Books LLC
- Publication date2012
- ISBN 10 1150393823
- ISBN 13 9781150393822
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages60
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