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Updated: June 21, 2025
"The Backwash of War" was suppressed by the British, French and American governments. It went through four printings first, and is now released again. Golden Stars. #McCourt, Edna Wahlert.# *Lichen. #MacManus, Seumas.# Conaleen and Donaleen. Heartbreak of Norah O'Hara. Lad from Largymore. #Mann, Jane.# Born near New York City of Knickerbocker ancestry.
It was a dank and foul day, but to us beautiful, because this was the end of the long journey four-and a-half years long, which had been filled with slaughter all the way, so that we were tired of its backwash of agony, which had overwhelmed our souls mine, certainly.
On one occasion this backwash sent me spinning into deep water again, and I am sure I should have been drowned had not my brave dog come to my rescue and seized me by my hair which, I should have explained, I had always worn long from the days of my childhood.
And, with a grating noise, the boat's keel struck the shore, carried forwards on the top of a huge wave, whose backwash, however, dragged us back into the deep the next second, slewing the head of the boat round at the same time, so that she hung broadside on.
Before there was time for panic, a current that rushed between rocks threw the vessel into a deep pool of backwash; and there she lay till morning. By this time many of the sailors were down with scurvy. It became necessary to land for fresh water. One man died as he was lifted from the decks to the shore. Bering could not stand unaided.
It is distressing to stand by and see such things transpire under our very eyes, injustices which we are powerless to prevent. I shall be anxious to know whether anything of this affair has crept into our American papers. I suppose not, however. We are anxious only to see "civilization" triumph in Europe. The backwash of civilization in the Orient is not our concern.
He found bottom with the pole and saw the Indian paddling hard. The row of canoes swung towards the bank, but the backwash caught them and it looked as if they would not swing far enough. Jim felt the veins on his forehead tighten and the pole bend as he strained with labored breath. The log came on; its butt under water, its ragged top riding high and swinging round.
It was never settled and comes up again to this day; but the point was the champion of Manitoba, Clifford Sifton, entered the Dominion Cabinet just as the Klondike boom broke. He saw the backwash of disappointed gold seekers. He realized the enormous possibilities of free advertising for Canada, and he launched such a campaign of colonization for Canada as the most daring optimist hardly dreamed.
Then I whipped out my knife again, and with a few vigorous strokes I cut the rope clean through, and felt my boat go swirling away on the backwash. It was a moment of supreme excitement, and I lay quite flat, waiting to hear if I were missed; but I heard no sound, and looking round presently, I saw the yacht away a mile, and I knew that I was a free man.
The voice of Odysseus rang across the waves, and reached Polyphemus as he sat in pain at the mouth of his cave. In a fury the giant sprang up, broke off the peak of a great hill and cast it into the sea, where it fell just in front of the ship of Odysseus. So huge a splash did the vast rock give, that the sea heaved up and the backwash of the water drove the ship right to the shore.
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