The Oregon having a heavy stern battery, could do effective fighting as she sailed; and if the enemy’s ships came up one at a time, there might be a chance of damaging one before the next arrived.
— from History of California by Helen Elliott Bandini
They had started on again when suddenly they felt a sickening sensation, as if the earth were rocking beneath their feet.
— from The Radio Boys Under the Sea; or, The Hunt for Sunken Treasure by J. W. Duffield
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