1898, J. Meade Falkner, Moonfleet Chapter 4Then the conversation broke off, and there was little more talking, only a noise of men going backwards and forwards, and of putting down of kegs and the hollow gurgle of good liquor being poured from breakers into the casks.
1919, William Somerset Maugham, ,Now and then in the lagoon you hear the leaping of a fish .... And above all, ceaseless like time, is the dull roar of the breakers on the reef.
