raney

Updated: June 4, 2025

Ruby saw this: it was plain for a child to read. She saw the curded tide, now at half-flood, boiling around the Raney; she saw the little craft swoop down on it, half buried in the seas through which she was being impelled; she saw distinctly one form, and one only, on the deck beside the helm a form that flung up its hands as it shot by the smooth edge of the reef, a hand's-breadth off destruction.

Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch - I Saw Three Ships and Other Winter Tales