Word: shore
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pass to yon bright shore...
...bleak Nichol Island, off Nova Scotia's east coast, a lone white house stands above the rocky shoreline. One day last fortnight Lightkeeper James Richard Hutt, 33, picked up his shotgun, set off down the shore to add some ducks and rabbits to the family larder. By dusk he had not returned. His slight, dark-haired wife, Pauline, climbed the steep steps of the lighthouse tower, and lit the twin wicks herself...
Three times that day Pauline Hutt tried to launch a 12-ft. boat. Three times the lashing wind and waves smashed it back on shore. Finally, after dark, she and the boy got away. She pulled on the oars, lost one, somehow made the two miles through ice floes to the wharf near her parents' home. Neighbors brought James Hutt's body ashore...
...stops?" asked Jess. "Eight," said the professor. "And that vox humana! . . . You can hear the voice of your lost child in it. Did you ever lose a child, Brother Birdwell?" "No," said Jess. "[Then] you can hear the voice of your old mother calling to you from the further shore," said the professor. "Ma lives in Germantown," said Jess. "Wet your whistle," cried the professor, taking a long swig from a flask, "and we'll sing it [The Old Musician and His Harp] through together...
...land on a sandspit which juts out from the shore. It is full of wounded. They scream for aid, for they are afraid of drowning as the river will rise with the oncoming tide. They themselves are too weak to move. However, we must press...