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Then he clambered to the box beside him and they rattled down the long street and out into the open road that led across the marshes to the port a few wooden houses and a jetty, running out from the shallows to the channel. When they reached the jetty, going slowly at the last through the heavy dust, the air was still and breathless.
MAX. Uncommon men require no common trust; Give him but scope and he will set the bounds. QUESTENBERG. The proof is yet to come. MAX. Thus are ye ever. Ye shrink from every thing of depth, and think Yourselves are only safe while ye're in shallows. 'Twere best to yield with a good grace, my friend; Of him there you'll make nothing.
The ascent is consequently tedious; often the rowers are compelled to pole the boat along, a task, under a burning sun, which could only be performed by negroes. In the upper part of the stream the navigation is obstructed by shallows, so much so as to render the operation of unloading unavoidable.
The birds flew hither and thither on joyous wings, twittering their simple gratitude to Him who 'heareth the ravens cry; for they indeed were thankful that the dark days were past, and that 'the time of the singing of birds had come. As to the little brooks and streams, how rejoiced were they to be free once more! they bounded away over the sandy shallows or pebbly beds, laughing for very gladness, and kissing the green banks whose fresh verdure they laved, whilst murmuring to them their gladsome song: 'I'm free! oh, joy!
The sea is tumbling in over the shallows and the sandy flats with a roar, muffled in the sea-mists drifting inland. The horizon is lost in a gray mist. All vastness, the clouds are piled up like giant rocks, and there is a 'brool' over the sea that sounds like some passage of doom.
This I slowly followed, until it at length rested in a wide belt of rushes which grew upon the shallows near the shore. I pushed the canoe into the rushes within four yards of the carcass, keeping to windward to avoid the sickening smell.
The little pools and shallows of the burns were as clear as a Lothian trout-stream. We were now going at a good pace, and I found that my earlier weariness was growing less. I was being keyed up for some great crisis, for in my case the spirit acts direct on the body, and fatigue grows and ebbs with hope.
"As far as I can tell," the captain said, "we have been driven up the bay called the Little Syrtis a place full of shoals and shallows, and abounding with pirates of the worst kind." "Think you that the ship has suffered injury?"
His nostrils expanded to their widest, his long neck outstretched, he was swinging his head back and forth across the limpid shallows. "What is it ?" "This is no water such as we know," the scaled one answered flatly. "It has life within it." Varta laughed. "Fish, water snakes, your own distant kin, Lur. It is the scent of them which you catch " "No.
"Nay," spake the young knight hastily, his trouble growing, "I do dread the water!" "Well, there be shallows 'neath the alders yonder." "Aye, but the shallows will be muddy, and I " "Muddy?" cried Beltane, pausing with his hauberk half on, half off, to stare at Sir Fidelis in amaze, "muddy, forsooth! Art a dainty youth in faith, and over-nice, methinks.
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