"Sea-level" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... the tide runs out through the gates of sunset, And the living fires of Atlantis glow Between the clouds and the long sea-level, Beyond the ...
— Masters of the Guild • L. Lamprey
... growing in all altitudes, from sea-level up to the frost-line, which is about 6,000 feet in the tropics. Robusta and liberica varieties of coffee do best in regions from sea-level up to 3,000 feet, while arabica flourishes ...
— All About Coffee • William H. Ukers
... in a country near the North Pole, where snow lies all the year at the very sea-side, and consequently at the sea-level, would it then prove a ...
— The Desert Home - The Adventures of a Lost Family in the Wilderness • Mayne Reid
... slow, for in the thin air of a place twelve thousand feet above the sea-level, climbing is exhausting work. But before long I came to the top, and stood on the verge of a crag that showed the crumbling action of water and frost. Gaping cracks seamed its face, and an enormous mass of fallen rock covered the broad slope at its foot. The very moment ...
— The Junior Classics Volume 8 - Animal and Nature Stories • Selected and arranged by William Patten
... agreed in assigning to this event the date of March, 709, when great inundations occurred in the Bay of Avranches on the French coast; they are not equally unanimous as to the cause, but science now rejects the theory of a raising of the sea-level and that of a general subsidence of the island. The most reasonable explanation appears to be that the overpowering force of a tidal wave suddenly swept away barriers whose resistance had been for ages surely though imperceptibly diminishing, and ...
— The Forest of Vazon - A Guernsey Legend Of The Eighth Century • Anonymous
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