over-fell

Updated: April 30, 2025

Remember how you taught me to yield to the undertow." An unusually large breaker for so mild a surf curled overhead, and he climbed out on her again, sinking both of them under as the wave-crest over-fell and smashed down. "Forgive me," he mumbled through pain clenched teeth, as they drew in their first air again. "And leave me." He spoke jerkily, with pain-filled pauses between his sentences.

Jack London - On the Makaloa Mat