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" Louder than the loud ocean, like a crash Of echoing thunder; and then all was hush'd, Save the wild wind and the remorseless dash Of billows; but at intervals there gush'd, Accompanied with a convulsive splash, A solitary shriek, the bubbling cry Of some... "
A Description of Pitcairn's Island and Its Inhabitants: With an Authentic ... - Page 152
by Sir John Barrow - 1832 - 303 pages
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Select English poetry, with notes by E. Hughes

Edward Hughes - 1851 - 362 pages
...there rushed, Louder than the loud ocean, like a crash Of echoing thunder ; and then all was hushed, Save the wild wind and the remorseless dash Of billows ; but at intervals there gushed,4 Accompanied with a convulsive splash, A solitary shriek, the bubbling cry Of some strong swimmer...
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Second collection of instructive extracts: no.vi of a new series of school-books

Scottish school-book assoc - 1852 - 322 pages
...there rush'd, Louder than the loud ocean, like a crash Of echoing thunder ; and then all was hush'd, Save the wild wind and the remorseless dash Of billows;...bubbling cry Of some strong swimmer in his agony. BYRON. XVIII.—LochieFs learning. Wizard.—LOCHIEL ! Lochiel! beware of the day When the Lowlands...
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Select specimens of English prose [ed.] by E. Hughes

Edward Hughes - 1853 - 766 pages
...was hushed, Save the wild wind and the remoresless dash Of billows ; but at intervals there gushed, Accompanied with a convulsive splash, A solitary shriek...bubbling cry Of some strong swimmer in his agony. BYRON. NAVAL IMPROVEMENTS. Naval. Ambiguous. Telegraph. Introduced. Local. Attraction. Voluminous....
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The Christian journal

1853 - 616 pages
...was hashed. Save the wild wind and the rcmor^eles dash Of billows ; but at intervals there gushed, Accompanied with a convulsive splash, A solitary shriek, the bubbling cry Of some strong swimmer in his agony.1' We may well believe that the children of Seth would behold, with feelings of unutterable delight,...
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Sketches by a Sailor; Or, Things of Earth and Things of Heaven

Commander in the Navy, Sketches - 1853 - 192 pages
...then it was apparent that something was wrong ; they had got amongst hidden rocks. Then was heard " A solitary shriek, the bubbling cry, Of some strong swimmer in his agony ;" and presently poor Davidson " drank The stifling wave, and then he sank." B still stretched out...
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English Literature of the Nineteenth Century: on the Plan of the Author's ...

Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1853 - 800 pages
...few stars; The boats put off o'ercrowded with their crews; She gave a heel, and then a lurch to port, A solitary shriek — the bubbling cry Of some strong swimmer in his agony. ***** There were two fathers in this ghastly crew, And with them their two sons, of whom the one Wns...
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Selections from the writings of lord Byron, by a clergyman [W. Elwin].

George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1854 - 320 pages
...there rush'd, Louder than the loud ocean, like a crash Of echoing thunder ; and then all was hush'd, Save the wild wind and the remorseless dash Of billows...bubbling cry Of some strong swimmer in his agony. DON JUAN. THE TWO FATHERS. THERE were two fathers in this ghastly crew, And with them their two sons,...
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The modern reader and speaker

David Charles Bell - 1856 - 466 pages
...hushed, Save the wi'M wind, and the remorseless dash Of billows ; but, at intervals, tEere gusked, Accompanied with a convulsive splash, A solitary shriek — the bubbling cry Of some strong swimmer in bis agony ! 246. Imitation, confined to words, would be incomplete. There must, throughout every composition,...
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The British Educator

1856 - 352 pages
...there rushed, Louder than the loud ocean, like a erash Of echoing thunder ; and then all was hushed, Save the wild wind and the remorseless dash Of billows ; but at intervals there gushed, Accompanied with a convulsive splash, A solitary shriek, the bubbling ery, Of some strong swimmer...
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The Book of Oratory: A New Collection of Extracts in Prose, Poetry and ...

1856 - 518 pages
...there rushed, Louder than the loud ocean, like a crash Of echoing thunder ; and then all was hushed, Save the wild wind and the remorseless dash Of billows ; but at intervals there gushed, Accompanied with a convulsive splash, A solitary shriek, the bubbling cry Of some strong swimmer...
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