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Kindle
Pagine
436
Lingua
Inglese
Pubblicato
Dec 28, 2012
Descrizione
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AT SEA
ON BOARD THE , AUGUST, 1893.
THE enormous ship — it has three funnels, a displacement of ten thousand tons, and an average speed of five hundred miles a day— is ploughing the broad ocean under full headway. An August afternoon sky broods over the Atlantic with its autumn clouds. It is like a flat gray lid, beneath which, tirelessly, monotonously, the waters heave and swell. The dull gray waves, opaque as the sky, rise up, tower aloft, and then come crashing down. For a second, as each uprears itself, the thin ruffled crest shines green, a fringe of foam plays along it, white and undulating. Then the wavering crest gives way, the emerald wall crashes down in a heavy mass of brackish water under the swelling of another wave. There are thousands upon thousands of them, heaving, raging, clashing in a frenzy as of a resounding battle; over it sometimes a bird flies with outspread wings, black against the(...)".
AT SEA
ON BOARD THE , AUGUST, 1893.
THE enormous ship — it has three funnels, a displacement of ten thousand tons, and an average speed of five hundred miles a day— is ploughing the broad ocean under full headway. An August afternoon sky broods over the Atlantic with its autumn clouds. It is like a flat gray lid, beneath which, tirelessly, monotonously, the waters heave and swell. The dull gray waves, opaque as the sky, rise up, tower aloft, and then come crashing down. For a second, as each uprears itself, the thin ruffled crest shines green, a fringe of foam plays along it, white and undulating. Then the wavering crest gives way, the emerald wall crashes down in a heavy mass of brackish water under the swelling of another wave. There are thousands upon thousands of them, heaving, raging, clashing in a frenzy as of a resounding battle; over it sometimes a bird flies with outspread wings, black against the(...)".