The engineers changed their watches and the captain unrelieved kept up his to and fro on the bridge.

I am confident that of all the men on board I was the only one who was not persuaded that death was near.

My wife never knew till long after what the danger had been.

We could already see that the water beneath the cliff was a wild expanse of breakers, coming in and recoiling, crossing, heaving, surging,--a white field of foam, where no human being could catch a breath.

The waves that swung in before this gale rose in breakers against the cliff higher than our masts.