curving-up

Updated: May 11, 2025

Shut your eyes, and the inward vision sees once more the long line of sandy and shingly beaches, the green curving-up of the surges tipped with dazzling foam, sees the motionless and blackened timbers of the wreck on the shore, the white wings dipping and turning along the combing tops of the waves racing in upon the sands, sees the dry tufted beach-grass, and the wet, shining, compact slope down which slides swiftly the under-tow.

Various - The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 27, January, 1860