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Below it a white shore-line curved away where the waves rolled in, sadly grand, to break and spread on the beach.
But, while distances have shortened, they remain for us water distances, and, however short, for political influence they must be traversed in the last resort by a navy, the indispensable instrument by which, when emergencies arise, the nation can project its power beyond its own shore-line.
A sharp breeze sprang up abeam, and M. Radisson ordered a blanket sail hoisted on the steersman's fishing-pole. But if you think that he permitted idle paddles because a wind would do the work, you know not the ways of the great explorer. He bade us ply the faster, till the canoe sped between earth and sky like an arrow shot on the level. The shore-line became a blur.
It might be regarded as not a mere accident that the great pyramid stands at the centre of the arc of shore-line along which lie the outlets of the Nile; or it might be regarded as not a mere coincidence that the great pyramid stands at the central point of all the habitable land-surface of the globe; or, again, any one of the other relations above mentioned might be regarded as something more than a mere coincidence.
Amherst took command of the troops; and the expedition held its way till the second of June, when they saw the rocky shore-line of Cape Breton, and descried the masts of the French squadron in the harbor of Louisbourg. The Authentic Account of the Reduction of Louisbourg, by a Spectator, puts the force at 11,326 men, besides officers. Boscawen sailed into Gabarus Bay.
"He never did. If he had, why?" "Don't ask such questions, with the glass falling as it is," I said, pulling up the racks to restrain the dancing tumblers. "Oh, don't joke!" she said. "Harry!" "Yes, Helena," said I. "I'm afraid!" "Why?" "I don't know. But we seem so little and the sea so big. And it's getting black, and the fog is coming. Look you can't see the shore-line any more now."
There was the gigantic, lonely pine he knew well, and, yes he could just make it out there was his own ramshackle little pier, which stretched in undulating fashion, like a long-legged, wading caterpillar, from the abrupt shore-line of eroded coquina into deep water. He thought at first that this picture of his home was some new and delicate device put forth by his press-agent.
De Artigny did not believe his own words; I even suspicioned that he had gone now alone to explore the shore-line; seeking to discover the truth, and the real fate of our companions. At first this conception of our situation startled me, and yet, strange as it may seem, my realization brought no deep regret.
And he knew because it was his heritage, what every single one of these sounds meant. The herd threaded through the dark jungle, and now they descended into a cool river. A herd of deer either the dark sambur or black buck sprang from the misty shore-line and leaped away into the bamboos. Farther down, he could hear the grunt of buffalo.
Let the frog-eaters have it, say I; the saints bless them. Come, pull away sharply, lads, and we'll see what the shore-line looks like above." The sound of dipping oars instantly increased in rapidity. "You are one pig-headed fool of an officer, Señor," snarled the sharp voice contemptuously. "Mother of God!" roared the other, enraged.
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