Its floor gradually rises from the water, and is the home of crabs, polypi, sting-rays, and other noisome creatures of the deep, who find here temporary safety from their larger foes.

Towards sunset the wind rosea sharp north-easter that made face and ears feel as if they were being flogged with stinging-nettles.

When the true one's time comes, you'll see, if so be you be alive to see it, as Heaven grant, he will go off like the flame of a candle and nothing be left in his place but a bit of a withered sting nettle.

The old sting rankles in the English breast.