At moments when she plunged the whiteness of the water Creaming upon the surges on either hand threw out a phantom light of sufficient power to enable me to see that the forward part of the brig was littered with wreckage, which served to a certain extent as a breakwater by preventing the seas, which washed on to the forecastle, from cascading with their former violence aft; also that the whole length of the main and top masts lay upon the larboard rail and over the side, held in that position by the gear, attached to them.
"The Frozen Pirate"
W. Clark Russell
That which I best recollect is the appearance of the mass of ice lying solidly, like a little island, upon the seas which roared in Creaming waters about it.
"The Frozen Pirate"
W. Clark Russell
He could see the turbid water Creaming into foam where it sped in resistless rapids around two or three rock islets, and then curled over the frightful brink, and between himself and the brink, speeding swiftly towards it, swept helplessly onward by the force of the flood, was a round dark object-a man's head.
"The Luck of Gerard Ridgeley"
Bertram Mitford