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...antiquity as a large island in the sea to the west of the known world (the Western Ocean), near the Pillars of Hercules (the Gibraltar Straits?). I... ... known geography of the period. An earthquake was said to have submerged it in the ocean. It is first mentioned in the dialogs Timaeus and Crit... ...story of Atlantis and medieval European authors referred to it as fact. Current oceanographers, scholars and conspiracy theorists place Atlantis... ...he maximum frequency was 6,780 small earthquakes on April 17, 1966." The Pacific ocean is the unhappy recipient of well over 80 percent of all th... ...ond). Quakes occur even on the moon which has no plates, volcanic activities, or ocean trenches. The five seismograph stations of the Passive Sei... ...alive today. The Titanic carried passengers transferred to it from two other cruise liners due to a strike. The radio operator of the "Californian"...

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...o be, a filmy form of an arm that began to roll toward him like a slow moving ocean wave; it pointed a milky white semblance of a finger directly at... ..., Alex. You know how those media hounds are stalking her for one of those one-liners,” she said defensively. “I know, but it’s funny,” Alex lied. “... .... It was a palatial Mexican villa set on the hillside over looking a majestic ocean. A host of workmen were feather-edging a many colored and extensi... ...XXs okay?" Brand nodded and looked out passed the gardens to a blue tranquil ocean. Aside from the women, and being close to his native language, i... ...ean. Aside from the women, and being close to his native language, it was the ocean that calmed his mind and body and replenished him from the stres... ... Michael slouched down just a little in his chair, and peered out at the blue ocean. "To win elections you need money," Cardona said trying to let ...

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...til they finallj have gravitated to the forecastle, or the stokehole of an ocean liner. Sons of a long line of sailors, men who liave failed in other ... ...st the water-front. It is the work of the mission to send men on hoard the liners as soon as they have been docked to interest the seamen and draw the... ... tho conditions of filth and squalor which exist in the quarters on oci-an liners occupied by these seiimen. The stokers are com- pelled to work in fo...

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...he is always aim- ing for that one little spot—maybe a small island in the ocean, a single headland upon the long coast of a continent, a lighthouse o... ...ve, but I confess that the idea of being suddenly spilt into an infuriated ocean in the midst of darkness and uproar affected me always with a sensati... ...deaf. And this recollection of a personal wish, experi- enced upon several oceans, where the soul of the world has plenty of room to turn over with a ... ... of gales, who called him away early from this earth, which is three parts ocean, and therefore a fit abode for sail- ors. A few years afterwards I me... ...a useful career extending over many years, and, I should say, across every ocean of our globe. Having killed a man for every voyage, and perhaps rende... ...st beautiful, vast, and safe bays the sun ever shone upon. Now great steam-liners lie at these berths, al- ways reserved for the sea aristocracy—grand...

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...er at lunch.” “In her state-room, I guess. She’ s ‘most always sick on the ocean. I’m going to give the stewardess fifteen dollars for looking after h... ...that butler’ s-pantry place. Say , this is the first time I’ve been on the ocean.” “Oh, don’t apologize, Harvey .” “Who’ s apologizing? This is the fi... ...ze, Harvey .” “Who’ s apologizing? This is the first time I’ve crossed the ocean, gen’elmen, and, except the first day , I haven’t been sick one littl... .... Slowly he remembered that he was Harvey Cheyne, drowned and dead in mid- ocean, but was too weak to fit things together. A new smell filled his nost... ... say if she could see him hanging over the edge of a fish- ing-dory in mid-ocean. She suffered agonies whenever he went out on Saranac Lake; and, by t... ...h gales, harried with drifting ice, scored by the tracks of the reck- less liners, and dotted with the sails of the fishing-fleet. For days they worke...

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...oot or two of my head and turns over just short of the turn of the bilges. Liners and yachts disguise their tanks with decora- tion, but the G.P.O. se... ...urage, mon ami,” and switches off. Then lights sink under the curve of the ocean. “That’s one of Lundt & Bleamers’ boats,” says Captain Hodgson. “Serv... ... underbody colloid, swings the heavy pithing-iron out of its rack which in liners is generally cased as a smoking-room settee, and at two hundred feet... ...em. Tim slides open the aft colloid and reveals the curve of the world—the ocean’s deepest purple—edged with fuming and intolerable gold. Then the Sun... ...freighters are ris- ing to lung up after the long night, and the leisurely ocean is all patterned with peacock’s eyes of foam. “We’ll lung up, too,” s... ...ith sable and black fox for the insatiable markets. We overcossed Keewatin liners, small and cramped; but their captains, who see no land between Trep... ... have shrunk. He had traced through cold and heat, across the deeps of the oceans, with instruments of his own invention, over the inhospitable heart ...

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...ow the passage of the London and Antwerp shipping and the Hamburg- America liners. Then heavy motor-cars began to run about on only a couple 13 H G W... ...t of eighteen battleships, with a flo- tilla of fuel tenders and converted liners containing stores to be used in support of the air-fleet, had passed... ... the Pacific. No doubt, said Kurt, this was now making records across that ocean, “unless the Japanese have had the same idea as the Germans.” It was ... ... on both sides,—and a storm and the night and the dawn and all in the open ocean full steam ahead! No stabbing! No submarines! Guns and shooting! Half... ...t reached New York in the late afternoon and was first seen by watchers at Ocean Grove and Long Branch coming swiftly out of the southward sea and goi... ...ther. The armament of the huge German airships, big as the biggest mammoth liners afloat, was one machine gun that could easily have been packed up on... ...had fallen into disuse for some years, and the Marconi stations across the ocean and along the At- lantic coastline seemed to have furnished particula... ... settled populations, gigantic cities spreading gigantically, the seas and oceans dotted with shipping, the land netted with rails, and open ways. The... ...r the rudder at Teneriffe. There they found the town destroyed and two big liners, with dead still aboard, sunken in the harbour. From there they got ...

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...that of our coldest winter. Its air is much more attenuated than ours, its oceans have shrunk until they cover but a third of its surface, and as its ... ...olliers, trim merchantmen, cattle ships, passenger boats, petroleum tanks, ocean tramps, an old white transport even, neat white and grey liners from ... ...leum tanks, ocean tramps, an old white transport even, neat white and grey liners from Southampton and Hamburg; and along the blue coast across the Bl...

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...ease him. “It will be nice and cool tomorrow, when we steam into the great ocean,” said Miss Mavis, expressing with more vivacity than she had yet thr... ...nd relief which figures and objects acquire on the great bare field of the ocean and under the great bright glass of the sky. I had never liked the se... ..., “of signification!” “Yes, but we’re further out now, and somehow in mid- ocean everything becomes absolute.” “What else can he do with decency?” Mrs... ...rdingly and saw a few figures sitting or moving about in the darkness. The ocean looked black and small, as it is apt to do at night, and the long mas... ...leasure that his seaman- ship had the grace, not universal on the Atlantic liners, of a fine-weather manner. “They don’t waste much time—your friends ...

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... of cities that are still to be, bridges in wild places, deserts tamed and oceans conquered, mankind no longer wasted by bickerings, going forward to ... ...e whole spectacle of London out to the shipping at Greenwich and the towed liners, the inces- sant tugs, the heaving portals of the sea…. His time was... ...men in the mines away in the north? What of his debt to the stokers on the liners, and to the clerks in the city? He reiterated the cardi- nal article... ...bvious intimations that she was not, until that still moment in the Indian Ocean, when silently, gently as a drowned body might rise out of the depths...

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... Chapter II 11 on his face. Out of my experience with stewards on the Atlantic liners at the end of the voyage, I could have sworn he was waiting for ... ...d quite methodically, as a matter of routine, dropped a canvas bucket into the ocean at the end of a rope, hauled it in hand under hand, and sluiced i... ... rail, watching the trim little schooner swiftly increasing the bleak sweep of ocean between us. And she would probably be in San Francisco in five or ... ...tarboard rail from view, and covering her deck to the hatches with the boiling ocean. At such moments, starting from a windward roll, I would go flying... ...he naked, desolate sea. And then, where a vagrant shaft of sunlight struck the ocean and turned its surface to wrathful silver, I caught a small black... ...sure, she righted herself and broke her deck, like a whale’s back, through the ocean surface. Then we raced, and wildly, across the wild sea, the whil...

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...a city for a year, fight a fleet of battleships, or drive one of our giant liners across the Atlantic; but we should also have a clue that would enabl... ...its boatmen and sail- ors, its ships coming along the great circles of the ocean, its time-tables and appointments and payments and dues as it were on... ...reach some holiday resort did they clamber above 3000 feet. And across the ocean his traffic passed in definite lines; there were hundreds of thousand... ...sed in definite lines; there were hundreds of thousands of square miles of ocean no ship ever traversed except by mischance. Into the mysteries of the... ...sused railways by now, the telephone poles have rotted and fallen, the big liners dropped into sheet-iron in the ports; the burnt, deserted cities be-...

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...ittle Cairo line and the little Memphis line always stopped; the big Orleans liners stopped for hails only, or to land passengers or freight; and this... ...ty curving lines lie close together, like those that indicate the borders of oceans in maps, and that they form various clearly defined patterns, such...

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...ng across the street. The house probably seemed to her adrift on the great ocean of the night. A little parallelogram of sky was all that she had hith... ...ement,” said I, “the globe shall arrive at its final perfection, the great ocean is to be converted into a particular kind of lemonade, such as was fa... ...away as rubbish. These things were now tossed up again, out of the surging ocean of human thought and expe rience. The story of Priscilla’s preternat... .... Hollingsworth, too, with his philanthropic project, afforded the penny a liners a theme for some savage and bloody minded jokes; and, consider ably... ...depth, keeping its own secrets from the eye of man, as impenetrably as mid ocean could. “Well, Miles Coverdale,” said Foster, “you are the helms man....

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...y be) is handed over the side of the Bounty, and turned adrift on the wide ocean in an open boat, by order of Fletcher Christian, one of his officers,... ...e way as the gulls are in their larger manner when the wind blows. But the ocean lies winking in the sunlight like a drowsy lion—its glassy waters sca... ... my open window on the cliff overhanging the sea beach, I have the sky and ocean framed before me like a beautiful picture. A beautiful picture, but w... ...nce, jump over anything, and climb up anywhere; but, that the sound of the ocean seems to have become so customary to my musings, and other re alitie... ...lants and flaws of light made mountain steeps of communication between the ocean and the sky. A walk of ten miles brought me to a seaside town without... ...s to con ceal their own deficiencies, and hand in glove with the penny a liners of that time, they became a sort of superstition. Al though as a Pr...

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...denly I saw, as in a vision, the whole solar system threaded with Cavorite liners and spheres deluxe. “Rights of pre-emp- tion,” came floating into my... ...e we are burrowing in this beastly world that isn’t a world, with its inky ocean hidden in some abominable black- ness below, and outside that torrid ... ...boil.” “This Lunar Sea,” says Cavor, in a later passage “is not a stagnant ocean; a solar tide sends it in a perpetual flow around the lunar axis, and...

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...ssed to nobody, for nobody had called for it, upon the unplumbed depths of ocean. He professed himself surprised to learn that although Mr. Vinrace po... ...here are no flowers in it. Imagine fields of hollyhocks and violets in mid-ocean! How divine!” “But somewhat dangerous to navigation,” boomed Ri- char... ...strangely they had been lifted off the earth to sit next each other in mid-ocean, and see every detail of each other’s faces, and hear whatever they c... ...wers and moving little glass jars. Here were the treasures which the great ocean had bestowed upon him—pale fish in greenish liquids, blobs of jelly w... ...s at Hull which showed like mountains at night, the ships that crossed the ocean punctually, the schemes for combining this and that and building up a... ...ne looked very small. Glasses were turned upon her from the decks of great liners, and she was pronounced a tramp, a cargo-boat, or one of those wretc...

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...RY INTO THE LOSS OF THE TITANIC—1912 ................... 194 PROTECTION OF OCEAN LINERS—1914 ............................................................ ...O THE LOSS OF THE TITANIC—1912 ................... 194 PROTECTION OF OCEAN LINERS—1914 .................................................................. ...have been built commonwealths whose might casts a dwarfing shadow upon two oceans. Like a natural force which is obscured as much as illumi- nated by ... ...rable and great to be the victims of such a profound, of such a ter- rible ocean! And Daudet was honest; perhaps because he knew no better—but he was ... ...to be tasks which he dare not face. For he is also a sage. It is a book of ocean travel—not, however, as un- derstood by Herr Ballin of Hamburg, the M... ...ongst the great Powers of the Continent, whose feet are not exactly in the ocean—not yet—and whose head is very high up—in Pomerania, the breeding pla... ...und this most unnecessary disaster. 211 Joseph Conrad PROTECTION OF OCEAN LINERS*—1914 THE LOSS of the Empress of Ireland awakens feelings somewhat d...

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...” Fuselli had liked to say to Al, “I’m going to take a trip on one of them liners.” “Yer dad come over from the old country in one, didn’t he?” Al wou... ...rshland and slate-grey stretches of water. “God! that must be the Atlantic Ocean,” cried Fuselli in excitement. “Ain’t yer never seen it before? That’... ...he officers strolling about at their ease—it all made him think of the big liners he used to watch come in through the Golden Gate, the liners he was ... ...and glory that he used to tell Al about, when they’d sit and watch the big liners come in, all glittering with lights, through the Golden Gate. “They ... ...ir clothes off, looking up at the sky, that seemed vast and free, like the ocean, vaster and freer than the ocean. “Sarge says a delousin’ machine’s c... ...d closed his eyes. His mind was full of intangible floating glow, like the ocean on a warm night, when every wave breaks into pale flame, and mysteri-... ...swelling sap, seemed to tingle in his nostrils. Sometimes, swimming in the ocean on a rough day, he had felt that same reckless ex- hilaration when, t... ... tell me about how you two used to go down to the harbor and watch the big liners come in at night, all aflare with lights through the Golden Gate. An...

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...have noticed, is a pet tune among engines not built for high speed. Racing-liners with twin-screws sing “The T urkish Patrol” and the overture to the ... ...e despised the big Atlantic boats, and made fun of the P . & O. and Orient liners, and swore by our respective owners - Wesleyan, Baptist, or Presbyte... ... when he would steam to office, down the Hudson, in his twelve-hundred-ton ocean-going steam-yacht, and arrive, by gradations, at Bleecker Street, han... ...to our fellow-kinsmen across the- ah-big pond, you call it?” “No, sir. The ocean—the North Atlantic Ocean. It’s three thousand miles broad, and three ... ...e in his life to study the great branch of our Anglo-Saxon race across the ocean,” said the lawyer. “If ever you come over, and care to flag any train... ...s, and a calliope attachment to her steam- whistle, the twelve-hundred-ton ocean-going steam-yacht Columbia, lying at her private pier, to take to his... ... P .O. boats are not lighted with the disgustful particularity of Atlantic liners. There is more phosphorescence at the bows, and greater si- lence an...

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...es it was! Starting with the Railway Systems, Steamer Lines, Standard Oil, Ocean Cables, Diluted Telegraph, and all the rest, and winding up with Klon... ...k ye, the first who will meet the foe! Who will go forward with me in this ocean of grievous temptation? If there is one who desires to go, let him co... ...ointment and sorrow; it was then I cast my little bark upon a mysteri ous ocean of wedlock, with him who then smiled and ca ressed me, but, alas! no... ...k ye, the first who will meet the foe! Who will go forward with me in this ocean of grievous temptation? If there is one who desires to go, let him co... ...s cannot be; I had rather be borne off, like the bubble upon the dark blue ocean, with Ambulinia by my side, than to have him in the ascending or desc... ... no scare heads. That was good—supremely good. But there were headings—one liners and two liners— and that was good too; for without these, one must d...

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...were kind… . Yes, it was a horrible situation. But the cool breezes of the ocean seemed to clear up that hatred as if it had been a curtain. They seem... ...ard—hundreds and hundreds of women, in rail- way trains, in hotels, aboard liners, at street corners. And she had arrived at thinking that Edward took...

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...ned out beyond, light- ing up her other dreams. Paris, more vague than the ocean, glimmered before Emma’ s eyes in an atmosphere of vermilion. The man... ...and he re- peated it from end to end, with the reflections of the penny- a-liners, and all the stories of individual catastrophes that had occurred in... ... to have become more im- mobile, and to lose itself in the shadow as in an ocean of darkness. The fire was out, the clock went on ticking, and Emma va... ...r to him: “What ill could come to me? There is no desert, no precipice, no ocean I would not traverse with you. The longer we live together the more i... ...ises in which the whole soul shows indistinctly what it contains, like the ocean, which, in the storm, opens itself from the seaweeds on its shores do...

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...there came a tele- gram to bid me note how a certain Mr. Holt was upon the ocean, coming back to England from a little excursion. He had left London l... ...healthy mountains. Men will harvest in Saskatchewan and come down in great liners to spend the winter working in the forests of Yucatan. People have h...