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Updated: May 10, 2025
He remembered the day that followed the tempest that morning, rainy and gray when, walking by the heavy, leaden sea, he had found a body at his feet and recognized it as that of an old sailor, the father of a family, who had been lost at sea three days before mournful jetsam, stranded in the wrack and foam, so heart-rending to see, with the gray hair of the drowned full of sand and shells!
They knew there'd be dead men and plenty of wrack coming ashore before morning." "And every man was ready to go out in his boat?" cried an enthusiastic townsman, "or to carry a line to the sinking ship?" "Well hardly," said the captain with a dry smile. "Folks that know the water don't go exactly that way to work.
Brooke had taken matters in his own hands and ordered an absolute rest, after dwelling at some length on the vicious pace set by modern business and the lack of consideration and knowledge shown by men of affairs for their bodies. There was a limit to the wrack and strain which the human organism could stand.
"Very soon now," replied Miss Arden cheerily, "you shall have a pretty good-sized portion of beefsteak, juicy and tender, and you shall eat it all up " "And leave not a wrack behind," moaned Anne Linton, closing her eyes. "But you are wrong, Miss Arden I shall not eat it, I shall gulp it the way a dog does. I always wondered why a dog has no manners about eating. I know now.
To my best remembrance, he lay crying out all one night for fear; and at times he would so tremble that he would make the very bed shake under him. But O! how the thoughts of death, of hell-fire, and of eternal judgment, did then wrack his conscience. Fear might be seen in his face, and in his tossings to and fro; it might also be heard in his words, and be understood by his heavy groans.
"About dis size," and Ben held out his hands. "He wouldn't be likely to take such a box to the wreck with him. He must have found it on the ship," went on Mrs. Ruthven, with interest. "Where could he find it, missus? De folks around yeah has tuk everyt'ing off dat wrack long ago." "Perhaps not. To tell the truth, Ben, I do not like that man's manner at all." "No more do I, missus.
The skies hang full and dark a wrack sails from the west; the clouds cast themselves into strange forms arches and broad radiations; there rise resplendent mornings glorious, royal, purple as monarch in his state; the heavens are one flame; so wild are they, they rival battle at its thickest so bloody, they shame Victory in her pride.
No; for marine plants abounded on the shore, glass-wort, ficoides, and all those fucaceae which form wrack. A large quantity of these plants was collected, first dried, then burnt in holes in the open air. The combustion of these plants was kept up for several days, and the result was a compact gray mass, which has been long known under the name of "natural soda."
Here landed Henry IV in 1399, and Edward IV in 1471. It returned two members to Parliament. An old picture of the place shows the church, a large cross, and houses; but it has vanished with the neighbouring villages of Redmare, Tharlethorp, Frismarch, and Potterfleet, and "left not a wrack behind." Leland mentions it in 1538, after which time its place in history and on the map knows it no more.
And then the subterranean news of the day not reported in the Signal was that something serious had happened to Lovelace Curzon. And the two Fleckrings went to America, the father, as usual, hypnotized by the son. And they left no wrack behind save Rachel.
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