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She careened over so that her lee channels were under the water; and when pressed by a sea, the lee side of the quarter-deck and gangway were afloat.
Then out of the cold mist floating over the distant Sioux showed a copper segment of the moon, which rose into sight and careened slowly heavenward, lighting up the wide plains, glimmering on the placid water of the sloughs, and shining full into the face of the dreaming little girl.
This big wave struck us the third day out about midnight, and nearly threw us all out of our berths, and careened the ship over so far that it seemed to take her last pound of strength to right herself up again. There was a slamming of doors, a rush of crockery, and a screaming of women, heard above the general din and confusion, while the steerage passengers thought their last hour had come.
When still some blocks from the mills a patrol wagon filled with officers careened past him, its gong emitting a staccato, exciting alarm. Here was reality. Bonbright quickened his step; began to run. Presently he entered the street that lay before the face of the factory a street lighted by arc lamps so that the scene was adequately visible.
She lies with her three masts sticking up out of the water, and careened over, the water being nearly on a level with her maintop, I mean that first landing-place from the deck of the vessel, after climbing the shrouds. The rigging does not appear at all damaged. I did not think it was in me to be so moved by any spectacle of the kind. Bodies still occasionally float up from it.
The roar of the wave was terrific as the waters surged, and for the moment it seemed to them that the prau would be hurled right upon the rocks where the cutter lay careened over, but with her bows to the coming wave that glistened luridly like a long wall of ruddy water crowned with foam. "Hold fast by the bulwark, boy," whispered the captain as he passed his arm round Mark.
He had proof of this a few minutes later in the movement of the great vessel, which no longer rode steadily over the swell, head to wind, but gradually fell off till she lay rolling in the hollows, careened over by the pressure of the storm, and utterly unmanageable.
The old tar said to Towle that she carried herself beautifully. Five minutes after he made the remark, while Westcott was talking to Katy, and playfully holding his fingers in the water as he leaned over the gunwale that almost dipped, there came a flaw in the wind, and the little boat, having too much canvas and too much loading, careened suddenly and capsized.
There was barely room for the auto to get past, but Cora managed it. "Oh!" sighed Mary in thankfulness. "Wasn't that awful?" "A narrow escape," assented Isabel. "But not as bad as the other one was. You should have seen that! We're safe now." The Whirlwind careened along the road, from the shelving gutter back into the middle of the highway.
The gale continued steadily to increase; the sea rose to a tremendous height, breaking heavily; the spray flew continuously over the launch in drenching showers; the little craft, under the merest shred of canvas, was careened gunwale-to by the force of the wind every time she rose upon the crest of a sea, and the most watchful care of the skipper, who had stationed himself at the helm, was sometimes insufficient to prevent a more than ordinarily heavy sea from breaking on board.
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