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Often appears with: voyages and seafaring · shipwreck and peril at sea · geography and the description of places · weather, storms, and the seasons · voyage to england · travel conditions · siege warfare at eresus · siege and fortification · shipwreck survival · shipboard monotony · sea-sickness · saracen princesses
Usually: narrative (5) · crisis of belief (2) · sudden reversal of fortune (2) · commentary or gloss (1) · confronting death (1) · exile and homecoming (1) · temptation (1) · curiosity (1) · detachment (1) · lament (1)
Mindarus leaves Miletus with seventy-three ships, reaches Chios after storms, and heads for the Hellespont, while Thrasyllus sails from Samos to intercept, attacks revolting Eresus, and coordinates with Thrasybulus.
Chersonese. Being caught in a storm, Mindarus was compelled to run in to Icarus and, after being detained five or six days there by stress of weather, arrived at Chios. Meanwhile Thrasyllus had heard of his having put out from Miletus, and immediately set sail with fifty-five ships from Samos, in haste to arrive before him in the Hellespont. But learning that he was at Chios, and expecting that he would stay there, …
On Aeolia, Aeolus gives Odysseus a bag of winds; after nine days near Ithaca, Odysseus’s crew opens it, releasing storms that drive them back and lead Aeolus to expel Odysseus as hated by the gods.
hath given unto him these things freely in his love. Nay come, let us quickly see what they are, even what wealth of gold and silver is in the wallet.’ “So they spake, and the evil counsel of my company prevailed. They loosed the wallet, and all the winds brake forth. And the violent blast seized my men, and bare them towards the high seas weeping, away from their own country; but as for me, I awoke and communed wit…
Darwin discusses sea-life compared with shore life: sea-sickness, monotony, storms, and contrasting the grandeur of nature through detailed attention and comparison across countries.
and its inhabitants seem the objects of wrath. On a forlorn and weather-beaten coast, the scene is indeed different, but the feelings partake more of horror than of wild delight. Let us now look at the brighter side of the past time. The pleasure derived from beholding the scenery and the general aspect of the various countries we have visited, has decidedly been the most constant and highest source of enjoyment. …
After repeated storms prevent departure, Johnson debates life’s experience and dismisses “Pekin,” then lodges at Captain M'Lean’s during bad weather and continues household talk on Tuesday, including rules about planning dinner.
vessel to carry us to Mull, from the harbour where she lay. The morning was fine, and the wind fair and moderate; so we hoped at length to get away. Mrs M'Sweyn, who officiated as our landlady here, had never been on the main land. On hearing this, Dr Johnson said to me, before her, 'That is rather being behind-hand with life. I would at least go and see Glenelg.' BOSWELL. 'You yourself, sir, have never seen, till n…
Alatiel, daughter of the Soldan of Babylon Beminedab, is sent by ship from Alexandria to be married to the King of Algarve, but a storm wrecks the voyage and leaves her stranded on Majorca.
to make you acquainted with the coil of misadventures in which her beauty involved a fair Saracen, who in the course of, perhaps, four years was wedded nine several times. There was of yore a Soldan of Babylon (1), by name of Beminedab, who in his day had cause enough to be well content with his luck. Many children male and female had he, and among them a daughter, Alatiel by name, who by common consent of all that …
Moll travels to England after eight years abroad, suffers a storm that wrecks most of her cargo, reaches London with little money, and then goes to Bristol and Bath seeking new opportunities.
and so my own fate pushing me on, the way was made clear for me, and my mother concurring, I obtained a very good cargo for my coming to England. When I parted with my brother (for such I am now to call him), we agreed that after I arrived he should pretend to have an account that I was dead in England, and so might marry again when he would. He promised, and engaged to me to correspond with me as a sister, and to a…