wave-surrounded

Updated: June 12, 2025

My late friendly neighbour, bound, as a man and a magistrate, to give ready assistance to a legal action bound, as a grateful and obliged friend, to respect my rights and my person thrusts himself betwixt me me, the avenger of blood and my lawful captive; beats me to the earth, at once endangering my life, and, in mere human eyes, sullying mine honour; and under his protection, the Midianitish woman reaches, like a sea-eagle, the nest which she hath made in the wave-surrounded rocks, and remains there till gold, duly administered at Court, wipes out all memory of her crime, and baffles the vengeance due to the memory of the best and bravest of men.

Sir Walter Scott - Peveril of the Peak