"Breakers" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... of Aubers and Fromelle are on the western slope and the ridge behind is our true objective. On the ridge we could see the church steeples of Herlies to the right and Fournes to the left, while here and there peep the derricks, or as we in America call them the "breakers" of coal pits. Beyond the ridge the land slopes to the Scheldt. It was on the eastern slope of this ridge that Caesar fought his greatest battles. There the Nervli charged across the stream in thousands and fought until hardly a man of them was left, fought until their ...
— The Red Watch - With the First Canadian Division in Flanders • J. A. Currie
... or not they will ever be fit for sea again I—well, I doubt it. And I rather guess the doctor doubts it, too. I don't say so to many, haven't said it to any one but you, but it looks to me as if I were on a lee shore. I may get out of the breakers some day—or I may just lay there and rot and drop to pieces.... Well, as you say, what's the use of wastin' ...
— Fair Harbor • Joseph Crosby Lincoln
... they drew nearer, a sound came on the breeze—sound faint and sonorous and dreamy. It was the sound of the breakers on the reef. The sea just here was heaving to a deeper swell, as if vexed in its sleep at the resistance ...
— The Blue Lagoon - A Romance • H. de Vere Stacpoole
... the catamaran. "Will you come with me, sweetheart? You can be useful to me by taking the tiller, when we come alongside her, while I jump aboard and make fast a rope. But we must be smart or she will be among the breakers before ...
— Dick Leslie's Luck - A Story of Shipwreck and Adventure • Harry Collingwood
... Randy's letter as she sat alone on the beach. It was cool and sunshiny and she was wrapped in a red cape. The winter gulls were beating strong wings above the breakers, and their sharp cries cut across ...
— The Trumpeter Swan • Temple Bailey
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