unwaterlike

For more than a half-hour this charming picture remained intact; then ugly patches of plain began to show through, the islands with their palms and temples slowly dissolved, the boats foundered with every soul on board, the sea drifted over the headlands in a most unwaterlike way, and inside the hour since, like stout Cortez, when with eagle eyes

The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce, Volume 1 Ambrose Bierce 1878