Word: sea
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...rattle of hoofs. Fifteen mounted policemen had come up. They made brief sorties into the surf. Haggard men and women scrambled away from the iron shoes. No, someone was stepped on that time. A girl. The iron shoes stamped by. The sea, pushed from behind, pressed closer than ever...
...while he brandished it, they drew him about the campus in an Irish "jaunting car."* Finally, in Ulster Hall, he received the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws. He was Winston Spencer Churchill, idolized as "Winnie," respectfully deferred to as Chancellor of the British Exchequer, once (1911-15) First Sea Lord of the British Admiralty...
...Churchill rested at Belfast, the guest of Premier Sir James Craig of Ulster, he may well have recalled the day 14 years ago when Ulstermen rioted against the militant First Sea Lord whom they acclaimed in his peaceful guise of Chancellor last week...
Lyonesse, the legend has it, was the outpost of Roman power in Britain. On the tip of the Cornwall peninsula it lay, between Land's End and the Scilly Isles, until the ocean rose up and swallowed it. Today, "old fisherman still boast that when the sea is still, they can hear its church bells ring far down beneath the rippling keel...
...mutual comprehension as Mr. Foster found in India. The pointed spire of the Compound Church pricks a sky too old to mind such petty prodding, and the Reverend Alurid Wilberforce's proselyting pricks even less effectively the soverign sufficiency of heathenism and of life. Tragedy grimaces from the Inland Sea, tragedy, modified at intervals, by humor, satiric, satisfying. And when one sees the figure of the old preacher and priest. Alurid, pathetic in his own futility, planning the lives of his family and friends quite with out success, when one glimpses his wife, dying of cancer, slowly and with...