Word: shoreless
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...eager and concentrated mind could not for long be satisfied. They plan to go away together, but quietly, alone, he goes first. "Forever young, forever brave, forever proud, Mary Hansyke walked across the old shipyard, while the John Garton moved down the harbor, her keel parting a shoreless sea, her prow lifted to the air of eternity. A lovely ship...
...hides a thought that might have been mad much of, under the cover of heavy language. The contrast between "numbing thought" and the "blithe heart" ought to be indicated by some change in the flow of the words. Instead of this a rather strained alliteration, "on shiny shallows of shoreless sorrow," so obtrudes itself upon the reader that the blitheness of temperament is quite forgotten. We cannot but regret that Mr. Berenson fails to find smoother expression for much of the vigor and beauty of his thought...