lingered-round

Updated: July 13, 2025

I did not close my eyes all night, and was keenly alive to the faintest sounds, and every ripple of the water, and every murmur of the waves, broke distinctly on my ear. One thing I noticed and accepted as a happy omen; not a single shark now lingered-round the raft.

Jules Verne - The Survivors of the Chancellor, diary of J.R. Kazallon, passenger