We went to see the ocean, and that is probably the best place of all our coast to go to. If you go by water, you may experience wh...at it is to leave and to approach these shores; you may see the stormy petrel by the way, thalassodroma, running over the sea, and if the weather is but a little thick, may lose sight of the land in mid-passage. I do not know where there is another beach in the Atlantic States, attached to the mainland, so long, and at the same time so straight, and completely uninterrupted by creeks or coves or fresh-water rivers and marshes.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When it is evening, you say, It will be fair weather, for the sky is red.' And in the morning, It will be stormy today, for the ...sky is red and threatening.' You know how to interpret the appearance of the sky, but you cannot interpret the signs of the times.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
And whether it is Thursday, or the day is stormy, With thunder and rain, or the birds attack each other,... We have rolled into another dream.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Theologians should not be ashamed to admit that they cannot enter a contest with such antagonists [the sceptics], and that they do... not want to expose the Gospel truths to such an attack. The ship of Jesus Christ is not made for sailing on this stormy sea, but for taking shelter from this tempest in the haven of faith.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Through the dark cold and the empty desolation, The wave cry, the wind cry, the vast waters... Of the petrel and the porpoise. In my end is my beginning.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
headland beyond stormy headland plunging like dolphins through the gray sea-smoke... Into pale sea, look west at the hill of water: it is half the planet: this dome, this half-globe, this bulging Eyeball of water,LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The man who had died looked nakedly on life, and saw a vast resoluteness everywhere flinging itself up in stormy or subtle wave-cr...ests.... always the man who had died saw not the bird alone, but the short, sharp wave of life of which the bird was the crest.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
They went to sea in a Sieve, they did, In a Sieve they went to sea:... In spite of all their friends could say, On a winter's morn, on a stormy day,LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »