| Silent Struggles Contributor(s): Stephens, Ann S. (Author) |
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ISBN: 1986943747 ISBN-13: 9781986943741 Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform OUR PRICE: $18.90 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: May 2018 |
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| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Classics |
| Physical Information: 0.82" H x 6" W x 9" (1.17 lbs) 398 pages |
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| Publisher Description: A storm had been lowering all day over the harbor of Boston, heaping the horizon with vast leaden embankments of heavy vapor, and shrouding the hills with dense floating fog that clung around them in waves and masses like draperies sweeping around some old monastic ruin. As the night approached, a sharp wind came up from the east, accompanied by a drifting rain that cut through the fog like a storm of silver shot. The force of the tempest swept this away only to reveal the harbor in wild turmoil, its waters heaving shoreward filled with muttering thunders from the far off ocean, and each hill reverberating hoarsely to their impetuous charge against its foundations. It was a terrible hour for any unfortunate wayfarer who dared to be abroad. The streets of the town were almost empty, and the wharves utterly deserted save by a half dozen poor fishermen, who struggled to keep their boats from being dashed to pieces against the timbers to which they were chained. But the turbid waves leaped around and over them, tearing the cables from their hold and beating the little crafts to atoms or hurling them away like nutshells in the stormy riot. |
