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It was cold and windy, scarcely the day to take a walk on that long beach Everything was withdrawn as far as possible, indrawn:…

— Elizabeth Bishop

“[T]hen all collapsed, and the great shroud of the sea rolled on as it rolled five thousand years ago.”

— Herman Melville

The castle of Cair Paravel on its little hill towered up above them; before them were the sands, with rocks and little pools of…

— Anonymous

“The wind was picking up off the ocean now and the whole coastal scene had a bleak, abandoned look, as though Maine in November…

— Jonathan Lethem

“The morning was one peculiar to that coast. Everything was mute and calm; everything gray. The sea, though undulated into long roods of swells,…

— Herman Melville

“Tell you something," the raven said. "I was flying over the Midwest once." He stopped abruptly, closed his eyes for a moment, opened them,…

— Peter S. Beagle

The fair breeze blew, The white foam flew, And the forrow followed free. We were the first to ever burst into the silent sea.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Land! An island! We devoured it greedily with our eyes and woke the others, who tumbled out drowsily and stared in all directions as…

— Thor Heyerdahl

“White-crested waves crash on the shore. The masts sway violently, every which way. In the gray sky the gulls are circling like white flakes.…

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

“And for the partridge there was the sun suddenly shut out, the foul flailing blackness spreading wings above, the roar ceasing, the blazing knives…

— J.A. Baker

“the distant cries of the seagulls”

— Lauren Oliver

“Battered by shifing currents and a cold, unrelenting wind, we sailed past deserted islands crowded with pines and a ghost tree growing staight out…

— Marisha Pessl