storm-vapors

Updated: May 29, 2025

Heavily, measured, and mournfully, came the tones of the great bell, as the storm-vapors shut down closer, and the west wind blew fiercer across the icebound sea. "They toll for the dead," said Regnar. All day long the snow fell heavily, and although the wind blew with no great violence, it was evidently increasing their drift eastward into the open Gulf.

Charles Winslow Hall - Adrift in the Ice-Fields