As the roaring engines sent the cutter crashing over swells for more than 20 minutes after the boats were first noticed, the crew could see the boats speeding without their lights on.
Disappointed, a female barfly gives Lancaster a surprised once-over, purring, "Swell looking, nicely built man like that, a checker!" THE 6-foot-1 build would remain nice, lovingly preserved and on display for many years to come.
In free verse, it describes the Greek hero soaring over southern Brooklyn: "Up over the swell of hot sugar / up over the swell of rubber... over the Coney Island gray water that will / make your shins itch".
From an abandoned jetty just past the wooden privy, I watched sleek backs rolling over in the swell, topped by tell-tale fins.
Like many land battles, the fight over the swell is about arcane differences in land-management law.
At the other end of this tunnel the sea dramatically churns up, and the boat begins repeatedly skipping and then smacking its hull down over the swell.
As the ship went over a swell, I could feel the wave moving up the corridor outside our cabin, rattling the blond-wood paneling as it went along.
After a year, he opened his couture house, attracting a trickle of patrons, whose numbers have swollen over time.
The amount of New Zealand land given over to vineyards swelled from 7,410 hectares, or 18,310 acres, in 1997 to an estimated 31,057 hectares as of June.
By 2013, the government is forecasting, the number of people age 65 or over will have swelled by 8 million, to 30 million.
