When people on shore realized what we were attempting, they came down by hundreds, in spite of the rain, and thronged the breakwaters on either side of the harbor entrance.
"Reminiscences of a South African Pioneer"
W. C. Scully
But even fifty years ago there was never a volume that had not been defaced out of all knowledge by crooked marks of the most inquisitive interrogation, and straight marks of the most indignant astonishment, by the reading-public in the shadows of the breakwaters.
"Somehow Good"
William de Morgan
And this is the case with that remarkable series of islands which runs like a row of breakwaters from the Helder to the Weser, and serves as a front to the continent behind them.
"The Ethnology of the British Colonies and Dependencies"
Robert Gordon Latham