It was necessary to build a breakwater in the gorge.

She had wondered, at the time, at the course, because Captain Bloom of the Hatteras had shown her how the reefs stretched out, forming a great breakwater for Coral City harbor, and the Savonarola had seemed to be making for trouble....

The right to construct a breakwater, jetty, or dam would seem necessarily to carry with it the power to protect and preserve such constructions.

So long as she rode at a single anchor, she could not be considered as absolutely safe; for a shift of wind would cause her to swing against the 'sea-wall,' as he called the natural breakwater outside of her, where, if not absolutely wrecked, she might receive material damage.

All ships under three hundred tons burden pass the breakwater and enter the Pasig, where, as far as the bridge, they lie in serried rows, extending from the shore to the middle of the stream, and bear witness by their numbers, as well as by the bustle and stir going on amongst them, to the activity of the home trade.

The breast of my nation proved a breakwater to them.

Evans sat with his eyes half closed, watching the frothy breakwater of the coral creep nearer and nearer.