none of them knew the colour of the sky, their eyes glanced level, and were fastened upon the waves that swept toward them. These waves were of the hie of state, save for the tops, which were of foaming white, and all men knew the colours of the sea. the horizon narrowed and widened, and dipped and rose, and at all times its edge was jagged with waves that seemed thrust up in points like rocks. (that's the 1 paragraph) ​