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There were many such discoveries: a small horseshoe crab mounting a larger one in the wavebreak, a fistful of mussels clinging to the damp underside of rock.
The Shell Collector : Stories Anthony Doerr 2002
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He had nightmares about finding a corpse bobbing in the wavebreak, bloated with venom.
The Shell Collector : Stories Anthony Doerr 2002
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Then casts again, those hypnotic loops of line swinging back and forth like the wavebreak itself and finally shooting out over the sea where it settles across the tiny swell.
The Shell Collector : Stories Anthony Doerr 2002
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He had nightmares about finding a corpse bobbing in the wavebreak, bloated with venom.
The Shell Collector : Stories Anthony Doerr 2002
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There were many such discoveries: a small horseshoe crab mounting a larger one in the wavebreak, a fistful of mussels clinging to the damp underside of rock.
The Shell Collector : Stories Anthony Doerr 2002
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Then casts again, those hypnotic loops of line swinging back and forth like the wavebreak itself and finally shooting out over the sea where it settles across the tiny swell.
The Shell Collector : Stories Anthony Doerr 2002
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There were many such discoveries: a small horseshoe crab mounting a larger one in the wavebreak, a fistful of mussels clinging to the damp underside of rock.
The Shell Collector : Stories Anthony Doerr 2002
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He had nightmares about finding a corpse bobbing in the wavebreak, bloated with venom.
The Shell Collector : Stories Anthony Doerr 2002
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Then casts again, those hypnotic loops of line swinging back and forth like the wavebreak itself and finally shooting out over the sea where it settles across the tiny swell.
The Shell Collector : Stories Anthony Doerr 2002
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Mavericks, south of San Francisco, is one of the best surfing spots in the continental 48, thanks to a unique sea floor that funnels the wavebreak into a 50-foot wavefront.
Deadspin Barry Petchesky 2010
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