Excerpt from Rose Island: The Strange Story of a Love Adventure at Sea With a slight lean to starboard, crushing through the long keen-edged seas of the North Atlantic, driven in thunder, and in trumpeting of divided canvas, now as moonrise with the starlight that shone upon it, sailed a noble modern ship, but a sailing-ship. She would be called a clipper. You saw her in the faint light of evening, and what was white was ghastly. The line betwixt her painted ports trembled through the flash of the sea like the little ...
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Excerpt from Rose Island: The Strange Story of a Love Adventure at Sea With a slight lean to starboard, crushing through the long keen-edged seas of the North Atlantic, driven in thunder, and in trumpeting of divided canvas, now as moonrise with the starlight that shone upon it, sailed a noble modern ship, but a sailing-ship. She would be called a clipper. You saw her in the faint light of evening, and what was white was ghastly. The line betwixt her painted ports trembled through the flash of the sea like the little moons you sometimes observe hanging in wind-swept summer trees, and the foam about her bows was not the less splendid because of the dimness out of which it would leap in rushes with the beautiful gleam of spume. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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