So thick was the air with the sea spray carried along in smoking spindrifts that the Deal men lost sight of the wreck while they raced into the surf of the Brake.
"Heroes of the Goodwin Sands"
Thomas Stanley Treanor
The fire was dying, now, burned out by the fierce blast of the storm and blown away to sea in long spindrifts of spark and vapor, white as the sand-drive itself.
"The Flying Legion"
George Allan England