Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878, À Beckett, Gilbert Abbott, 1811-1856 · London, Bell and Daldy · leaf 184
or shroud, whilst the wild waves l^eat over the sufferers, whose hopes have beendriven away by the threatened death thatappears inevitable. Dreadful are the feel-ings, as the ship writhes iipon the rockswhich giiud her stout timbers to merepowder—horrible to witness the ragingof the ocean as it… … ^^ 16J THE PllESERVATION OF LIFE. who have not experienced such visitations, can never form an adequate idea of the horrorsthat rush out of the blackness of darkness to torture the spirits of the afflicted, as theybehold first one, and then another, washed away, and, for a few seconds, struggling…
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