"Mid-sea" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... far, steer by my star, Leaving the loud world's hurry and clamor, In the mid-sea waits you, maybe, The Isles of Glamour, where Beauty reigns. From coasts of commerce and myriad-marted Towns of traffic by wide seas parted, Past shoals unmapped and by reefs uncharted, The ...
— The Centaur • Algernon Blackwood
... Wind sighed:—'From the Virgins my mid-sea course was ta'en Over a thousand islands lost in an idle main, Where the sea-egg flames on the coral and the long-backed breakers croon Their endless ocean legends to the lazy, ...
— Lyra Heroica - A Book of Verse for Boys • Various
... bear navigating the mid-sea upon the mortal part of a late lamented walrus, soliloquized, in substance, ...
— Cobwebs From an Empty Skull • Ambrose Bierce (AKA: Dod Grile)
... elevation—13,825 feet to the summit of the highest peak—and of the 6,405 square miles of land area which constitute the group 4,015 belong to Hawaii. Except in temperature, which varies only about 11 degrees mean for a year, diversity marks the physical features of these mid-sea islands. Lofty mountains where snow lies perpetually, huge valleys washed by torrential freshets, smooth sand dunes, or fluted ridges, arid plains and rain-soaked forests, fringes of white beach, or abrupt bluffs that drop sheer into ...
— The Hawaiian Romance Of Laieikawai • Anonymous |
