With the bound of a cat he landed in the middle of the Floatage, dived under the logs, rose on the boiling surf, worked himself clear of the inshore wreckage, and struck out in the direction of the man clinging to the shattered mast, and who was now nearing the beach, whirled on by the inrushing seas.
"The Tides of Barnegat"
F. Hopkinson Smith
Behind it also came all the ruin of the mill that had any Floatage, and bodies of bears and great hogs and cattle, some of them alive, but the most part dead.
"Erema My Father's Sin"
R. D. Blackmore
Still she rose up till her ports, with her guns, and at last the whole of her Floatage was above water, and there she remained close to them, with her main-yard squared, and hove-to.
"The Phantom Ship"
Captain Frederick Marryat