Personification is a literary technique where the writer gives human qualities to inanimate objects/nature. Find and write down two sentences which use this device.

From the text:

"'Can't see it,' remarked Rainsford, trying to peer through the dank tropical night that was palpable as it pressed its thick warm blackness in upon the yacht"

"Ten minutes of determined effort brought another sound to his ears--the most welcome he had ever heard--the muttering and growling of the sea breaking on a rocky shore"