| 单词 | shelvy |
| 例句 | The horse and man, for some time, seemed entangled with each other; but, at last, the horse escaped, and made for the further shore, which was shelvy and hard. Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Vol. XX 2011-08-27T02:00:23.817Z They appear sloping down to the water’s edge, not shelvy, but smooth, and their exuberances rounded off, and, in some places, deeply furrowed, as though they had been worn with continual floods of water. Wanderings in South America The dry channel between shelvy banks of gravel showed white in the unclouded yet dull starlight. Stories by American Authors, Volume 9 A skiff she notes, by the shelvy marge, Wont deftly across to speed its charge; Now jumping and twisting, like leaf on a lynn, Wo! if a foot list cradle therein! Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 54, No. 338, December 1843 A bleak defile, a pass in mountains deep, Whose whitened summits wear their morning glow, And dark banditti winding down the steep Of shelvy rocks, pointing their guns below. The International Monthly, Volume 2, No. 4, March, 1851 In his marines, he followed the same taste; they represent the desolate and shelvy shores of Calabria, whose dreary aspect is sometimes heightened by terrific tempests, with all the horrors of shipwreck. Anecdotes of Painters, Engravers, Sculptors and Architects, and Curiosities of Art, (Vol. 2 of 3) The route lay between a range of low islands, and a shelvy beach, very monotonous and dreary. Narrative of a Voyage to the Northwest Coast of America in the years 1811, 1812, 1813, and 1814 or the First American Settlement on the Pacific Sending their boat to sound at one of these islands, ground was found a cannon-shot from the shore, in twelve, fourteen, and fifteen fathoms, but shelvy. A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 10 Arranged in systematic order: Forming a complete history of the origin and progress of navigation, discovery, and commerce, by sea and land, from the earliest ages to the present time. Fear then this forceful arm, and hear once more, Death stands between thee and that shelvy shore. The Columbiad They appear sloping down to the water's edge, not shelvy, but smooth, and their exuberances rounded off and, in some places, deeply furrowed, as though they had been worn with continual floods of water. Wanderings in South America |
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