"Gaining the more open water, the bracing breeze waxed fresh; the little Moss tossed the quick foam from her bows, as a young colt his snortings. How I snuffed that Tartar* air! --how I spurned that turnpike earth! --that common highway all over dented with the marks of slavish heels and hoofs; and turned me to admire the magnanimity of the sea which will permit no records."
Tartar: wild (from the nomadic Tartars, or Tartary, a region in Siberia)
Thursday, August 21, 2008
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