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...nearer, she breasts the storm and current, flinging the white-caps from her prow as she approaches : " She walks the waters like a thing of life, And seems to dare the elements to strife !" Nearer and nearer, she urges her foaming way — she is around the point — she is abreast the...

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...quivering frame ; the sea flashing from her prow, and the white waves boiling and curling in her wake, " She walks the waters like a thing of life, And seems to dare the elements to strife." Aug. 25. On Tuesday we started for a swordfishing voyage off Nantucket Shoals, and so on to Nahant....

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...white rocks faded from his view, And soon were lost in circumambient foam. BVRON'S Childe Harold. 6. She walks the waters like a thing of life, And seems to dare the elements to strife. BYRON'S Corsair. 7. The cloven billow fiash'd from off her prow, In furrows form'd by that majestic...

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...ease." How beautiful is the gallant ship, with her white canvass spread to catch the freshening breeze! she "•"Walks the waters like a thing Of life, And seems to dare the elements to strife." Bnt the sky is overcast — an appalling accident occurs, and lo I she becomes in a moment the sport...