"Landwards" Quotes from Famous Books
... father's Journal—in a silence full of tragedy, a silence filled in with the echo of that awful cry borne landwards on the wings of the storm; and now, in the presence of this mute witness, shaping itself into the single word "Murder." Of the effect of the reading upon us, I need not speak at any length. For the most part it had passed without comment; ... — Dead Man's Rock • Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch |