Seattle was built out on pilings over the sea, and at high tide the whole city seemed to come afloat like a ship lifting free from a mud berth and swaying in its chains.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I have always had the sea as my playground.
Sweet it is, when on the high seas the winds are lashing the waters, to gaze from the land on another's struggles.
Seattle has shaped me in a lot of ways.
The most amazing thing to me about the sea is the tide. A harbour like St. Ives is totally transformed in a very short space of time by the arrival or departure of the sea.
Seattle was a rabid film town in the '70s and '80s because it rained so much.
I never was on the dull, tame shore, But I loved the great sea more and more.
Seattle is like a global gumbo, a melting pot with all kinds of people - the rich, the poor, white people, some Chinese, Filipino, Jewish and black people - they're all here.
Sunrise offered a very beautiful spectacle; the water was quite unruffled, but the motion communicated by the tides was so great that, although there was not a breath of air stirring, the sea heaved slowly with a grand and majestic motion.
The sea is my business.
The sea heaves up, hangs loaded o'er the land, Breaks there, and buries its tumultuous strength.
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