"Rough water" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... course over the sea brought the yawl across the broad Channel (100 miles) to Cowes and its Regattas, and to rough water in dark nights of thunder, until once more in the Thames and up the Medway she was ...
— The Voyage Alone in the Yawl "Rob Roy" • John MacGregor
... of the northern sea," gave me a wild welcome to these northern shores. A rocky head like Gibraltar, a cold-blooded- looking grey town, straggling up a steep hillside, a few coniferae, a great many grey junks, a few steamers and vessels of foreign rig at anchor, a number of sampans riding the rough water easily, seen in flashes between gusts of rain and spin-drift, were all I saw, but somehow it all pleased me from its ...
— Unbeaten Tracks in Japan • Isabella L. Bird
... before we are opposite the rock, Forr," directed Milton. "When that rough water catches us, we're going to rip through ...
— The Enchanted Canyon • Honore Willsie Morrow
... miles of which we are to run. This rough water on the Athabasca is one of the only two impediments to navigation on the long course between Athabasca Landing and the Polar Ocean. These first rapids, frankly, are a disappointment. The water is high, higher ...
— The New North • Agnes Deans Cameron
... waters at the rate of ten or twelve knots, and frequently at even a swifter movement, one can easily understand how much depends on its form, buoyancy and strength. Among seamen, it is commonly thought that a whale-boat is the safest craft of the sort in which men can trust themselves in rough water. ...
— The Sea Lions - The Lost Sealers • James Fenimore Cooper
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