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"You have won," he contradicted joyously. "You've conquered the undertow. 'The idols are broken in the Temple of Baal." She was still dependent upon the support of his arms: still too storm-tossed and unnerved to stand alone and her words came faintly. "I surrender. I am at your mercy.... There is in all the world nothing you can ask that I can refuse you."
By some mere miracle of dashing about, however here, battered against the sharp rocks; there, flung over them by the breakers; and yonder, again, sucked down, like a straw in an eddy, by the fierce strength of the undertow Eustace found himself at last, half unconscious and half choked, carried round by the swirling scour that set through the channel to the south front of the island.
Thanks to the aid of the current, combined with the towing powers of the jolly- boat's crew the sail having been found useless in the little wind there was and lowered again the raft was proceeding steadily along at the rate of some three miles an hour; keeping all the while at a safe distance from the cliffs, in order to avoid any undertow, and rapidly losing the hull of the Nancy Bell albeit, the flag of the ship could yet be seen distinctly far away astern to seaward, fluttering in the slight breeze that expanded its folds.
"A lot like the Minnesota lakes, only smaller," said Carl. "I'm going right in. About ready for a swim? Come on." "I'm af-fraid!" She suddenly plumped on the earth and hugged her skirts about her ankles. "Why, blessed, what you scared of? No sharks here, and no undertow. Nice white sand " "Oh, Hawk, I was silly. I felt I was such an independent modern woman a-a-and I aren't!
"It's warm in here," she said, taking off her jacket and opening the top two buttons of her tight blouse. "Yes." As they talked and drank, Oliver settled in his chair, his eyes on the opening in her blouse and the lacy rising edge of her bra. A familiar undertow pulled him down; he wanted to be lower than she was. She watched, opened her blouse farther, and let it happen.
The motor swung around a corner and into a throbbing thoroughfare down the long, crowded course of which was pictured in an almost perpetual perspective panorama the rushing torrent, the back-wash, the undertow, the placid pools and the spectators upon the banks of the gigantic river of human endeavor.
One second it is over head and hands, and the next second it is about to your knees, with a malicious undertow tickling your feet and tugging at your ankles; and growling: "Aw, you think you're some, don't you? Yes. Well, for half a cent wouldn't take you out and drown you." And I don't like the looks of that boat patrolling up and down between the ropes and the raft.
"And is that where you invested my few plunks?" I asked, forcing myself to be calm. "That's it," chuckled Uncle Peter, "and that's where Bill Grey has invested $5,000 for Bunch." I excused myself and said I didn't feel like promenading the undertow made me dizzy. I went off by my lonesome and looked across the troubled sea.
The short-lived typhoon had passed, but the wind still blew slantingly on the beach with force enough to raise a turmoil of crashing sea and undertow in the small bay formed by the extension of the wall.
Captain Vyell, who had an eye for such phenomena, judged that this bank had formed itself quite recently, since the building of the pier. A heavy sea was running, and evidently with a strong undertow. When Manasseh returned with the hot water, Captain Vyell announced that he would bathe before taking his chocolate. "Yo' Hon'ah will bathe befor' shaving?"
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