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Updated: June 3, 2025
"The ship is well moored, and this narrow ledge of rocks, between us and the ocean, serves admirably for a break-water. One would not like to be stranded, helpless as we are, at this moment, on a coast like this!" "Why so particularly helpless? You allude to the absence of our crew?"
Some of it has been utilized in reclaiming land; much has been carried out to sea and heaped into a break-water three miles long, which runs out from the Panama or southern end of the Canal, and will check a coast-ways current that might, if uncontrolled, silt up the approach. The Canal is a triumph, not of man's hands, but of machinery.
I passed through the narrow street, and turned on to the beach, walking in the direction of the combination of pier and break-water which loomed up through the faint mist. The tide was high, and, leaving my clothes to the care of Bob, who treated them as a handy bed, I dived into twelve feet of clear, cold water.
But before the flood of light overtopped the tiny break-water and shot again upon Ralph's face, he sat up bewildered and astonished, casting a look about him upon the moorland and its crying birds. Jock Gordon was just coming towards him, having scoured the face of the ridge for more plover's eggs.
A storm was impending as the ship made her way up the harbor, but as the boys and the other passengers looked at the great break-water, constructed to be one of the protections to the Canal, they realized what a stupendous undertaking the work was, and they knew that no storm could affect them, now they were within the Colon harbor.
They had come about the end of the Lido, and were following the line of the break-water, and presently Mrs. Daymond broke the silence: "My husband was a Southern Unionist," she said. "The war was an inevitable tragedy to him." Pauline felt instinctively that it was not often that Mrs. Daymond spoke in this way of her husband to one who had not known him.
He spoke gruffly. He found speech difficult. The girl started. 'What say? 'Hop it. Get along. Run away. 'What do you mean? Constable Plimmer scowled. His face was scarlet. His jaw protruded like a granite break-water. 'Go on, he growled. 'Hop it. Tell him it was all a joke. I'll explain at the station. Understanding seemed to come to her slowly. 'Do you mean I'm to go? 'Yes.
To protect the merchandise landed on the strand, the municipality had constructed a sort of break-water of masonry, which may still be seen on some old plans of Paris, and which preserved the piles of the landing-place by meeting the rush of water and ice at the upper end of the Island.
This speech was addressed to the old merchant, who had ceased pumping, and was leaning against the cuddy and looking up hopelessly at the long line of brown cliffs which were now only half a mile away. They could hear the roar of the surf, and saw the white breakers where the Atlantic stormed in all its fury against nature's break-water. "He's not fit to command," said Ezra to the mate.
He carried it to the window, rubbing it on the worn black sleeve, and bending closer, studying the deep-cut letters. Then he lifted his head. A quick sigh floated from him. Miss Elizabeth Harris, 108 Lake Shore Drive. He knew the place quite well facing the lake, where the water boomed against the great break-water.
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