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The captain tried to reach him as he heaped maledictions on his head, but at that instant another squall swooped down, enshrouding them in spray, and nearly swamping their frail vessel. They sat silent and trembling, expecting Houghton's fate, but the gust passed finally, and the lights of the city gleamed out. "Now put about, you coward," thundered Bodine.
Oh, Gilbert, I do hope I'll like Redmond and Kingsport, but I'm sure I won't!" "Where's all your philosophy gone, Anne?" "It's all submerged under a great, swamping wave of loneliness and homesickness. I've longed for three years to go to Redmond and now I'm going and I wish I weren't! Never mind! I shall be cheerful and philosophical again after I have just one good cry.
Others launched skiffs in sheltered places, and pulled out bareheaded to bail out their fishing-boats and keep them from swamping at their moorings. The shore was thronged with men in oilskin clothes and by women with shawls over their heads.
All went well until the boat reached the outermost line of the breakers, when suddenly a towering wave, rushing resistlessly along, broke directly over the stern, swamping the boat, and drowning seven of the crew. Again the last hope seemed lost to the exhausted men on the wreck.
They aren't the sort of men that go to make up the general run of construction squads. One of my main reasons for wanting them was the fact that they were rivermen, hardened to swamping and white-water work and that kind of thing. In a pinch they're good for twenty-four hours a day, over stretches that would take the heart out of most gangs.
She had been engulfed in her own abyss. Tragedy was on every side, horrors pouring in, swamping her being. Feeling had drowned in the icy void. Not Hen's tears had touched her, not her father's stricken grief. But when her eyes came upon this small face, something written there pierced her through and through. Such a shocking little face it was, so pinched with no hope of tears....
An oarsman was saying: "Be careful, there! We can't take him in without swamping." But Brennan's voice shouted: "Make room or I'll bash in your bloody skull." Another protest arose, and O'Neil saw that the craft was indeed loaded to the gunwales. "Take the girl quick," he implored. "I'll hang on. You can tow me."
The reproduction of the forest depends directly on what trees are kept for seed, or on how the existing young growth is protected and preserved in felling and swamping the trees which have been marked for cutting, and in skidding the logs. The disposal of the slash must be looked after, for it has much to do with forest reproduction, and with promoting safety from fire.
Romanes suggests," continues the Times, "is that at a certain stage of development of varieties in a state of nature a change takes place in their reproductive systems, rendering those which differ in some particulars mutually infertile, and thus the formation of new permanent species takes place without the swamping effect of free intercrossing. . . . How his theory can be properly termed one of selection he fails to make clear.
He decried the attractions of the sublimer House, and laughed at the transparent Whiggery of his party in replenishing it from the upper shoots of the commonalty: 'Dragging it down to prop it up! swamping it to keep it swimming! he said. He was nevertheless a vehement supporter of that House.
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