"Headland" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... just daybreak when I had a note from him. He said in it I was to go out to him at the Bratthammer. You know the headland there between the ...
— The Lady From The Sea • Henrik Ibsen
... called our Navy fades away, On dune and headland sinks the fire. Lo, all our pomp of yesterday Is one with ...
— A Rock in the Baltic • Robert Barr
... the Pilgrim's Cape Lies low along her lee, Whose headland crooks its anchor-flukes To lock the shore and sea. No treason here! it cost too dear To win this barren realm And true and free the hands must be ...
— The Poetical Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Complete • Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
... glinted on the harbor. A ship was standing out to sea, sails set to pick up the breeze from the headland. Sira Nal looked over toward the shipyards. It was a well organized secondary base, and it would probably develop into a highly valuable position. Somehow, he doubted that Buron would have been able to do as ...
— The Players • Everett B. Cole
... Christian, he was a hero of the old, indomitable type. Even the last fragments of his imaginative power were all turned to account by that unconquerable will, amidst the discouragement of friends, and the still more disheartening doubts of his own mind. Like the headland stemming a rough sea, he was gradually worn away, ...
— Sir Walter Scott - (English Men of Letters Series) • Richard H. Hutton
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