The Lord of Hardivyle : An Historical Legend of the Fourteenth Century (Dodo Press)

Anonymous novel first published in 1800. "Already had the Coast of Northumberland been lost to the sight, when the sun, sinking into the ocean, foretold a storm by its sanguine appearance.

The night came on apace terrible and gloomy; the lightning flashed and the roar of distant thunder was heard; portentous meteors shot athwart the gloom, and each mountainous billow threatened them with immediate destruction.

By the sudden shock of a wave the rudder was dashed to atoms, and the vessel left to the mercy of the winds and the raging sea; for some time she was drove back by the storm, when they perceived the land directly before them; unable to govern the ship, they foresaw their destruction was inevitable. "