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He lay listening. There were not many sounds: the rudder post uttering soft bovine grunts at intervals, the tidal currents from the Katama coast pulling along the flanks of the yawl, his wife's even breathing in the berth across the way, and the tickling of the round brass ship's clock on the bulkhead over his bunk.
John Richard Hersey, Under the Eye of the Storm, Knopf, Toronto, 1967, p. 9.
TIME: mid 20th c.
CIRCUMSTANCE: at sea (on board a small sailing vessel)
He turned on the radio. The weatherman, who called himself Sunny McCloud, was complacent; his voice, though tuned low, had a resonance that must have been fueled by bourbon and blood-rare steak - an impertinent heartiness too early in the morning.
John Richard Hersey, Under the Eye of the Storm, Knopof, Toronto, 1967, p. 10.
TIME: mid-20th C.
PLACE: at sea
CIRCUMSTANCE: an board a small sailing vessel
He listened for Dot's breathing and could not hear it: she was beyond the thin forward-cabin door, and the clacking of the brass clock overhead chopped into bits such soft sounds as her lungs must have made up there.
John Richard Hersey, Under the Eye of the Storm, Knopof, Toronto, 1967, p. 13.
TIME: mid 20th c.
PLACE: at sea
CIRCUMSTANCE: an board a small sailing vessel
He heard, quite loud, the splattering of fat under the slabs of meat and the repeated chuck of the percolator and the push of the burners underneath.
John Richard Hersey, Under the Eye of the Storm, Knopf, Toronto, 1967, p. 24.
TIME: mid 20th c.
PLACE: at sea
CIRCUMSTANCE: the galley of a small sailing ship
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