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A tremor of wonder and dismay, of excitement and division, shivered through the crowd. Some covered their faces. Others stretched out their hands. Others shook their fists in the air. A tumult of voices broke from the multitude voices of exultation, and anger, and horror, and strife. The floor of the cathedral was moved and lifted by a mysterious ground-swell. The pillars trembled and wavered.

They had to hold the dishes to the table and swallow their tea between plunges. Joe was inordinately proud of himself that day, for, in spite of the nasty motion and there's nothing much more likely to induce sickness than a long ground-swell he not only remained on duty but consumed his dinner with a fine appetite.

We rounded the south-west angle of the island; and soon after, wards found ourselves pulling up a narrow channel between the island and the reefs, in perfectly smooth water, save for the slight undulations of the ground-swell. We reckoned that the strangers were now about two miles distant, so with muffled oars, and in the strictest silence, we paddled gently on, Mr Flinn leading in the launch.

The music again struck up, and dancing was resumed with fresh vigor, the waltzing of all other couples being quite eclipsed by that of Young New York and little Straw-Goods, who had effectually got rid of her tipsy persecutor ever since the ground-swell, and was keeping rather in the background of late, with a sober-minded lady whom she called "aunty."

Did you ever see the ocean after a storm? Do you know what a "ground-swell" is? when the sea is heaving up in great smooth ridges without crest or foam, and deep troughs between when the tempest has ceased to howl and the winds to blow, yet still so uneven remains the surface of the mighty deep, still so dangerous are these smooth waves, that ships rock and tumble about, and sometimes lose their masts, or are flung upon their beam ends!

The sounds from the ship, the direction of the land breeze, our distance all confirm it, and Providence again befriends us!" "It will be a fearful error should we be mistaken!" "We cannot be deceived, since nothing else will explain the circumstances. There! the boat feels the ground-swell a blessed and certain sign that we are at the inlet!

A ground-swell from ancient years of night seemed now and then to lift the child in this his morning-life, when his face took a back view over some great Atlantic of Time, and appeared not to care about what it saw.

Such poetic sentiment as this of the purely picturesque sort was in large measure Thalberg's possession, but he could never understand that turbulent ground-swell of passion which music can also powerfully express, and by which the soul is lifted up to the heights of ecstasy or plunged in depths of melancholy.

Buchanan's mind in 1861 as the time for his exit from the White House approached. At the North there had been a political ground-swell; at the South, secession, half accomplished by the Gulf States, yawned in the Border States. Curiously enough, very few believed that war was imminent. As a reporter for the States I met Mr. Lincoln immediately on his arrival in Washington.

The domed Morro concealing the squalid lower town was crowned with once lordly buildings cathedral, palace, treasury, and fort; the colours of the ground-swell were red and white, with here and there a dot of green; and the blue sea rose in its loveliness beyond the hill horizon.