| 单词 | shingly |
| 例句 | Every year, it is washed down from higher up in the mountains and finds its way to bedrock, which, in the case of the Bear River, is a very shingly riverbed. Why This Londoner Became a Backwoods California Gold Prospector 2015-09-02T04:00:00Z The common tern and the greater sand-plover nested on the shingly islands in the river. Mount Everest the Reconnaissance, 1921 2012-04-12T02:00:28.417Z The tide was coming in slowly and imperceptibly, and rippling like silver bells on the shingly beach. A Gamble with Life 2012-04-11T02:00:33.587Z She was there, her hands touched his, she walked beside him up the shingly path. The Tree of Knowledge A Novel 2012-04-05T02:00:35.603Z Sad enough looked the poor head-boards as the low-sinking sun threw its yellow rays athwart them, casting long shadows over the shingly slope; silent, sad, and mournful as everything else in this dreary Arctic world.” The Sea: Its Stirring Story of Adventure, Peril, & Heroism. Volume 3 2012-04-03T02:00:31.900Z Having a beach or beaches; formed by a beach or beaches; shingly. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) 2012-03-24T02:00:19.387Z He should hear the surf wash on the shingly beach and in the deep grottoes of which she had sung to him when a child. Out of Mulberry Street Stories of Tenement life in New York City 2011-12-28T03:00:42.950Z Then turning the flank of a steep ascent, they reached the foot of a shingly scree, and sat down to lunch in the warm sunshine, where the wind was cut off by the peak above. The Protector 2011-12-14T03:00:17.460Z Great seas were thundering in upon the shingly beach and leaping madly over pier and wall. The Cruise of the Land-Yacht "Wanderer" Thirteen Hundred Miles in my Caravan 2011-10-11T02:01:13.517Z The shore along which they travelled was a very low shingly limestone. In the Arctic Seas A Narrative of the Discovery of the Fate of Sir John Franklin and his Companions 2011-10-10T02:00:18.377Z The words were hardly out of his mouth when a dull, rasping sound announced the unpleasant fact that the submarine was scraping over the shingly bottom. The Fight for Constantinople A Story of the Gallipoli Peninsula 2011-10-04T02:00:17.837Z Evidently he had gone down a steep shingly slope with a wall of rock on his right hand over the entrance of a rocky watercourse.' Climbing in The British Isles, Vol. II Wales and Ireland 2011-09-23T02:00:23.653Z They are out of doors now, seated on the lawn which stretches down to the shingly beach on which the waves are lisping and rippling. Born to Wander A Boy's Book of Nomadic Adventures 2011-08-31T02:01:32.837Z Read his "Last Walk in Autumn," where he says:— "Home of my heart! to me more fair Than gay Versailles or Windsor's halls, The painted, shingly town-house where The freeman's vote for Freedom falls!" John Greenleaf Whittier His Life, Genius, and Writings 2011-08-26T02:00:22.667Z He remembered the slight stir on the shingly soil as he came from the hut on the night he had taken the opals from Charley. The Black Opal 2011-07-13T02:00:16.323Z Or you see the shingly beach, at one end of which—you learn by report of artillery-firing and the cloud of blue smoke curling to the sky—is Shoeburyness. Days and Nights in London or, Studies in Black and Gray 2011-07-12T02:00:29.167Z Soothingly the river, not yet frozen over, prattled over its shingly bed as it swept round the knoll on which stood the farm. A Book of Ghosts 2011-07-08T02:00:19.203Z Not even a gull is on the wing, and the wavelets have forgotten to break on the shingly beach. Dorrien of Cranston 2011-07-07T02:00:31.540Z When I came up to her I found her anchored in some five fathoms of water, with the small-boat lying dry on the shingly beach. The Deemster 2011-04-08T02:00:08.197Z She found him lying there, stretched across the shingly earth. The Black Opal 2011-07-13T02:00:16.323Z To a few fishers mending their nets on the shingly seashore, he preached as fine a sermon as he would have preached in a cathedral. All the Days of My Life: An Autobiography The Red Leaves of a Human Heart 2011-03-31T02:00:16.763Z It has none of the advantages of a sandy shore, and bathing from the steep shingly beach is often so dangerous that the authorities insist on securing intrepid bathers by rope around the waist. France 2011-03-27T02:00:11.847Z Part of the Howe of Fife is light and shingly and covered with heather. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 3 "Fenton, Edward" to "Finistere" 2011-03-14T03:01:00.580Z Only the measured beating of the groundswell upon the shingly shore gave the watchers any indication, apart from their local knowledge, that the wide North Sea was almost at their feet. Billy Barcroft, R.N.A.S. A story of the Great War 2011-02-24T03:01:02.917Z Michael could see it moving across the bare, shingly ground at the back of the hut. The Black Opal 2011-07-13T02:00:16.323Z His little white feet made music on the shingly path as he danced down the hill. The Ravens and the Angels With Other Stories and Parables 2011-02-23T03:00:29.860Z Along the edge of the water, below the properties, spaces and objects which we have been engaged in noticing, once ran a shingly beach of a width sufficient to admit of the passage of vehicles. Toronto of Old 2011-02-10T03:00:45.907Z It was not that no trace of human habitation, nor of any living creature was to be seen, but that the stony, shingly soil, totally destitute of all vegetation, seemed to deny life to anything. Paul Gosslett's Confessions in Love, Law, and The Civil Service 2011-02-04T03:00:18.850Z Ben reached the shingly beach, and was reaching out into the water with a long tree branch, trying to hook in the now exhausted balloon without getting his feet wet. The Boys of the Wireless 2011-01-24T03:00:17.997Z His tall, white figure, straighter than any man's on the Ridge, moved silently, his feet, wrapped in their moccasins of grass and sacking, making no sound on the shingly earth. The Black Opal 2011-07-13T02:00:16.323Z On one side a little shingly path sloped from it to the beach where the waves broke; whilst on the other, the path lay through shrubs and grassy slopes into a valley. The Ravens and the Angels With Other Stories and Parables 2011-02-23T03:00:29.860Z The tents were pitched amongst the low-growing bushes in the dry, shingly bed of the stream; and the hobbled camels were turned loose to crop such twigs and grasses as they found edible. Burning Sands 2011-01-17T03:00:53.930Z We were being dragged up on a low shingly shore, and the men—up to their waists in water—were carrying the boat along. Paul Gosslett's Confessions in Love, Law, and The Civil Service 2011-02-04T03:00:18.850Z They crossed the strip of shingly beach together. The Golden Web 2011-01-15T03:00:38.007Z And on the shingly soil, between the old dumps cast up a little distance from the huts, in every direction, the paper daisies were lying, white as driven snow in the wan light. The Black Opal 2011-07-13T02:00:16.323Z He could not wait until it reached the dry beach, but plashed through the waves, caught it in his arms, and carried it in triumph to the shingly ridge above the sands. The Ravens and the Angels With Other Stories and Parables 2011-02-23T03:00:29.860Z “I am tired of living singly,— “On this coast so wild and shingly,— “I’m a-weary of my life; “If you’ll come and be my wife, “Quite serene would be my life!” The Jumblies and Other Nonsense Verses 2011-01-12T03:00:33.643Z The water-courses and depressions of the shingly steppts afford pasturage sufficient for the guanaco, and in places support a thorny vegetation of low growth and starved appearance. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 5 "Arculf" to "Armour, Philip" The man and the girl scrambled up a little shingly mound. The Golden Web 2011-01-15T03:00:38.007Z The road, no more than a track of wheels on shingly earth, wound lazily through paper daisies growing in drifts beside it, and throwing a white coverlet to the dim, circling horizon. The Black Opal 2011-07-13T02:00:16.323Z Outside, the placid silence was broken only by the murmurous buzzing of insects and the soft lapping of the tide upon the shingly sands. To Win the Love He Sought The Great Awakening: Volume 3 The beach was shingly, not sandy, which made their fishing not only a slippery but a most agonizing performance. The School by the Sea Passing along the upper end of the clough we looked straight down its one shingly street to the sea washing among rocks. The Adventures of Elizabeth in Rügen Among other remarkable objects in the museum of natural history we recognized, swimming upon his shingly bed under a glass case, our old friend the Gymnotus Electricus, or Electrical Eel. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, No. V, October, 1850, Volume I. So many waterways intersect the shingly meadows that by the time we come out at the right place an extraordinarily tortuous path has been followed. Hastings and Neighbourhood When she looked up, the gray depth of storm already arched high over the Canadian woods, and big drops began to rap on the shingly bank below her. International Short Stories American They strolled along for hours, now by the shingly shore, on which the waves swept smoothly, now inland, through leafy lanes and narrow roads, freckled with patchy sunlight. Davenport Dunn, Volume 1 (of 2) A Man Of Our Day There is a small cove in the midst of the most precipitous part of the breeding station at Horn Head, wherein the shingly shore shelves rapidly to the Atlantic and faces to the west. Territory in Bird Life The man ran the boat into the shingly beach, pulled in his oars, climbed out and made toward us. My Brave and Gallant Gentleman A Romance of British Columbia Supported by his two guides, Bertram easily contrived to slide down the shingly precipice; and on reaching the bottom, crossed the beach and stepped on board a very large twelve-oared boat heavily laden. Walladmor: And Now Freely Translated from the German into English. In Two Volumes. Vol. I. The little waves fell with a soft thud, followed by the crisp echo of the surf, feeling all round the shingly cove. The Thread of Gold The two Swiss cottages, for instance, with their balconies, and glittering windows, and general character of shingly eaves, are expressed in Fig. The Elements of Drawing In Three Letters to Beginners If you chase a seal over a shingly beach, he will scuffle away at a surprising pace, flinging up the stones into your face with his hind feet. The Strand Magazine, Volume V, Issue 26, February 1893 An Illustrated Monthly As it stretches northward it decreases gradually in height and in the size of its pebbles, till it becomes a low shingly beach. England, Picturesque and Descriptive A Reminiscence of Foreign Travel He ran across the green, down the grassy slopes and across a stretch of shingly beach, to the cottage of his friend. Our Young Folks at Home and Abroad Round the base of the bluff, on a little flat between it and the white shingly beach, are the houses of the settlement. Brighter Britain! (Volume 1 of 2) or Settler and Maori in Northern New Zealand The plains generally consist of a deep alluvial silt, interspersed with shingly patches, containing boulder stones. Rambles in the Islands of Corsica and Sardinia with Notices of their History, Antiquities, and Present Condition. The others had all gone on: they were standing alone on the shingly beach, just above a little strip of yellow sand,—only they two. Not Like Other Girls Tucking my feet well into the shingly mountain side, and bringing the point of equilibrium, as nearly as possible, to an angle of twenty-five degrees, I scrambled towards R——, and P——, and the Norwegian. A Yacht Voyage to Norway, Denmark, and Sweden 2nd edition In the rocks at the end of our garden there was a shingly opening, in which we used to bathe, and where at low tide I frequently waded among masses of rock covered with sea-weeds. Personal Recollections, from Early Life to Old Age, of Mary Somerville The shingly beach, no less deserted, was thick with tangled seaweed, and the innumerable shells crumbled under the feet that trod them. The Explorer Sea-poppies there are, too, groves of them, growing in the sandy stretches that lie close to and border the wide, shingly beach. Ladies-In-Waiting The boys, nudging each other with excitement, heard the bow of the boat scrape on the shingly beach and then came the crunch of footsteps. The Ocean Wireless Boys And The Naval Code The beach is flat, for the most part shingly, and about the mouth of the Rimac, somewhat marshy. Travels in Peru, on the Coast, in the Sierra, Across the Cordilleras and the Andes, into the Primeval Forests They descended the sandy and shingly beach until further progress was barred by the lapping wavelets of the rising tide. The Submarine Hunters A Story of the Naval Patrol Work in the Great War I looked at the shingly beach, and saw the keel-marks of a boat and the footprints of its occupants in the middle of the cove. The Mystery of the Green Ray They found this settlement a collection of huts on a shingly beach. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 380, June, 1847 As we stood there, with the sea lashing the shingly beach and hammering the rocks, Wheeler, chief officer of that station, recalled the story of the wreck of the Trifolium, a Swedish sailing ship. Some Naval Yarns Within this rocky foreland lie two bays, sweet coverlets of blue waters, washing a shingly shore under shelter of dark cliffs. The Little Manx Nation - 1891 It was a sea-plane, flying at fifteen hundred feet above the Warner and The Nab Lightships, that had detected an elongated shadow creeping stealthily over the shingly bottom close to the Dean Tail Buoy. The Submarine Hunters A Story of the Naval Patrol Work in the Great War "That place will do," muttered the observant sub, looking towards a shingly sort of beach beneath some cliffs. The Kangaroo Marines The waves broke with a great noise on the shingly beach. The Nursery, September 1873, Vol. XIV. No. 3 Taking with us two of the native seamen, Poore and I set off on shore shortly after ten o'clock, and landed on a rough, shingly beach. The Call Of The South 1908 When young birds live in the open, as on shingly beaches, then their down is mottled. Chatterbox, 1906 It was then very shallow, and a great part of its shingly bed was dry. The Desert Home The Adventures of a Lost Family in the Wilderness Said the Yonghy-Bonghy-Bo, "I am tired of living singly,— On this coast so wild and shingly,— I'm a-weary of my life; If you'll come and be my wife, Quite serene would be my life!" The Book of Humorous Verse In his part of the front sandbags grew like pebbles on a shingly beach; and from time to time fresh cuts off the trenches were opened to allow for further expansion in the sandbag family. No Man's Land For a wind, suddenly awakened, swept towards him from some far distance, neared, broke overhead, as summer waves upon a shingly beach, died in delicious whispers, only to sweep up and break and die again. The History of Sir Richard Calmady A Romance Beyond this ridge they found a shingly beach secluded from the town, warmed by the full rays of the westering sun. Shining Ferry From the Atlantic Ocean to the Red Sea, and from the foot of the Atlas Mountains to the Sudan, it is a weird panorama of rock waste—level, rugged, shingly, and mountainous, according to locality. Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania And I loved her, and our troth we plighted On the morrow by the shingly shore: In a fortnight to be disunited By a bitter fate forevermore. The Book of Humorous Verse A long murmur, like the growl of the tide upon a shingly beach, arose once more from the crowd. Halima And The Scorpions 1905 Cliffs, crowned with pines, rose in some places perpendicularly from the shingly beach of the gulf, and elsewhere the ground was very rugged. Wrecked but not Ruined It was the sound of hoof-strokes on the shingly bed of the cañon. The Scalp Hunters Why, nothing but the channels of the brown streams, some pasture-land and a few huts, then the unfrequented lake, and beyond that some ridges of white sand standing over the shingly beach of the sea. Lippincott's Magazine, Volume 11, No. 26, May, 1873 He accordingly directed two of the crew to take up the portmanteaus and accompany the midshipmen, who set off at once along the shingly beach. The Rival Crusoes The multitude of worshipers surged like crested waves blown obliquely on a shingly shore. Paul Patoff Standing on a slight eminence, and backed by a deep belt of firs, broad meadows sloped from it, straight down to a grey shingly beach, where the boys used to bathe. Wilton School or, Harry Campbell's Revenge The stream, after meandering over a shallow, shingly channel, entered the cañon through a vast gate-like gap, between two giant portals. The Scalp Hunters Often we would keep straight up the creek-bed, plunging through pools that were knee-deep, and walking over shingly bars. The Trail of '98 A Northland Romance Sometimes it whispers in the calm, and comes rippling on the shingly beach in a still, small voice, as if to solicit our regard. The Ocean and its Wonders These, toppling over, and breaking, and coming in with a succession of magnificent roars, finally hissed in harmless foam on the shingly beach. The Lonely Island The Refuge of the Mutineers The boat soon touched its shingly beach, but before it could scrape thereon its occupants stepped into the water and carefully carried it on shore. The Giant of the North Pokings Round the Pole At the same moment the boat’s keel grated softly on the shingly shore. The Coxswain's Bride also, Jack Frost and Sons; and, A Double Rescue The men did not see us as we lay on that shingly bar. The Trail of '98 A Northland Romance A narrow belt of sandy and shingly beach extended along the margin of the river, or, as it might be more appropriately termed, the lake, at least in as far as appearance went. Ungava It turned them head over heels, and swept them up the shingly shore. The Lonely Island The Refuge of the Mutineers He should hear the surf wash on the shingly beach and in the deep grottos of which she had sung to him when a child. Children of the Tenements We halted for some minutes and listened attentively, but not a sound was to be heard except the low, soft, and musical lap of the tide as it glided by the shingly beach. Salt Water The Sea Life and Adventures of Neil D'Arcy the Midshipman At the foot of the hill they came to a clear, broad stream, passing over a shingly bed. From Powder Monkey to Admiral A Story of Naval Adventure The boats grounded almost together on the shingly beach of Inishbawn. Priscilla's Spies In a short time they reached the little narrow strip of shingly beach where the boat had been left in charge of Quintal. The Lonely Island The Refuge of the Mutineers Carelessly putting this on, he sauntered out of the hall into the shingly path, where he was saluted by a chorus of barking. Three Boys or the Chiefs of the Clan Mackhai It was just growing dusk when the boats, having cast off from the towing hawsers, pulled into the cove and grounded on its steep shingly beach. Under the Meteor Flag Log of a Midshipman during the French Revolutionary War Brefar Church stands on a green knoll close by the water's edge and only a few yards above a shingly beach where the Islanders bring their boats to shore. Major Vigoureux Said the Yonghy-Bonghy-Bo, "I am tired of living singly,— On this coast so wild and shingly,—- I'm a-weary of my life; If you'll come and be my wife, Quite serene would be my life!" The Best Nonsense Verses But even when the Dysynni had been safely bridged,—not without anxious days when piles refused to become embedded in the shingly bed of the river—the troubles of the constructors were far from concluded. The Story of the Cambrian A Biography of a Railway The swelling tide laps on the shingly beach, Like any starving thing; And hungry breakers, white with wrath, upreach, In vain clamoring. The New Penelope and Other Stories and Poems Brewster's rearmost files declared long after that never the faintest whisper of affray had reached their ears, already half deadened by fatigue and the ceaseless crash of iron-shod hoofs on shingly rock. An Apache Princess A Tale of the Indian Frontier It was originally built, I suppose, of rough, shingly stones, as many of the houses hereabouts are now, and the plaster is used to give a finish. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 117, July, 1867. Conceive my horror and stupefaction!—I was treading a hard, dusty, shingly road of granite. A Journey to the Centre of the Earth A regular and well-defined channel placed us on the shingly and sandy beach. To The Gold Coast for Gold, Vol. II A Personal Narrative There was a small scrap of shingly beach off which the Chinamen's scow was lying anchored with a stone and with a China boy for anchor watch. Great Sea Stories Suddenly the boat's keel grazed the shingly strand, and there before him, half shrouded in the shadows of evening, was Bon Repos. The Argosy Vol. 51, No. 3, March, 1891 All night the lapsing rivers croon to their shingly bars The wizardries that mingle the sea-wind and the stars. Ballads of Lost Haven A Book of the Sea Then we clasped hands and ran like children from thicket to rock and rock to the long stretches of shingly shore. Heralds of Empire Being the Story of One Ramsay Stanhope, Lieutenant to Pierre Radisson in the Northern Fur Trade Hand in hand we turned out of the 'Saracen's Head' into the shingly street, took the turning which led to the unfashionable quarter, and strolled on and on, in what Scott calls 'social silence.' Mrs. Overtheway's Remembrances The cliffs here are about four hundred feet in height, and at their base the sea breaks frequently in a long surf line on the steep shingly shore. Pictures in Colour of the Isle of Wight The beaches shelve very gradually, and are never shingly; so that a special kind of boat gradually had to be contrived in order that the peculiar nature of the landing might be suited. The Romance of the Coast Fair the land lies, full of August, Meadow island, shingly bar, Open barns and breezy twilight, Peace and the mild evening star. Ballads of Lost Haven A Book of the Sea They came into Castoleto, which is a small place where the sea washes a shingly shore just below the town, and the narrow streets smell of fish and other things. The Lee Shore We backed into position on the sloping shingly ground near the side of the canal, and waited for the barge to come in. Fanny Goes to War A hollow, hollow, hollow, sound, As is that dreamy roar When distant billows boil and bound Along a shingly shore— But the ocean brim was far aloof, A hundred miles or more. The Poetical Works of Thomas Hood "It is so bad for a woman to be alone," said he to himself, shambling along the shingly beach a moment after. Humorous Masterpieces from American Literature The country is not shingly, but the soil is mixed with small pebbles; to our right is a bold hill; vegetation the same. Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries The plan succeeds in a dry soil of any description, whether it be shingly beach or sand. The Art of Travel Shifts and Contrivances Available in Wild Countries The old-fashioned lettuces were so hard and crisp that it was difficult to chew them without making a noise somewhat similar to walking on a shingly beach. Cassell's Vegetarian Cookery A Manual of Cheap and Wholesome Diet As they pulled away he pointed silently to a steep crag on the shingly beach. Scottish sketches The point from which I had slipped was above the reach of the water, but I fell upon the shingly beach so heavily that I was hardly conscious for a few minutes. The Doctor's Dilemma At the mouth, the pass opens out into a good breadth, with an even, small, shingly bottom. Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries Swallowed up by wild seas with storm-tossed crests, that race madly landward to dash themselves in blind fury on shoreless cliffs, or sweep resistless over a shingly beach. Stories of the Border Marches At low water it communicated with the town by a natural causeway of shingly rock called "The Bridge," commanded by its own guns. St George's Cross A white mackintosh lay under a handful of stones upon the shingly beach. Rosa Mundi and Other Stories A long bench holds a lantern with a shingly clean globe, a lot of canned fruit, dried beans and peas. Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Arkansas Narratives, Part 2 The city is situated at the termination of one of the shingly slopes, which are universal between the bases of the hills, and the cultivated portion of the valley. Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries When you are across the river with the shingly bottom draw up on the back meadow. Waysiders Good sound watering-place; shingly and sandy beach for about a mile. McKinlay's Journal of Exploration in the Interior of Australia However, we visited a reservoir instead, where a pipe took away the overflow, and here we got a real cold bath in limpid water, on a shingly bottom, a delicious experience. In the Ranks of the C.I.V. We found it a small stream flowing swiftly over a shingly bed to the westward, and encamped within hearing of its murmur, well pleased to have performed our toilsome journey. California Four Months among the Gold-Finders, being the Diary of an Expedition from San Francisco to the Gold Districts The ditch is hence shingly, whereas an equal depth in the cultivated parts would meet nothing but a sandy, light, easily pulverizable brownish-yellow soil, tenacious, and very slippery when wet. Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries At the end of it we came to the shallow river with the shingly bottom. Waysiders The heaviest of the besieging engines were worked in throwing massive stones, which could be got in plenty and of every size upon the shingly beach. The Thirsty Sword By diligent baling we were able, under his direction, to bring our boat to a shingly beach, over which a light shone warm in a cottage window. The Laird's Luck and Other Fireside Tales It extends along the shore of a small bay, with a shingly beach in front and a swamp behind. Narrative of the Voyage of H.M.S. Rattlesnake, Commanded By the Late Captain Owen Stanley, R.N., F.R.S. Etc. During the Years 1846-1850. Including Discoveries and Surveys in New Guinea, the Louisiade Archipelago, Etc. to Which Is Added the Account of Mr. E.B. Kennedy's Expedition for the Exploration of the Cape York Peninsula. By John Macgillivray, F.R.G.S. Naturalist to the Expedition. — Volume 2 It is in some places much choked by bulrushes, etc., it is eighty yards broad, and is shingly. Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries It contained what looked like discoloured water, very like the water in the shallow river with the shingly bottom. Waysiders However, at last one happy man found a place where it was possible to climb down to the shingly bed of the river, close to a great mass of the branching headed papyrus reed. More Bywords She reached the shingly shore, and went down over the stones to the waves breaking in the sunlight. The Obstacle Race The artillery, however, had to be got ashore, and the work of landing the guns on the shingly beach was a laborious one indeed. Jack Archer The inclined valleys are very shingly and bouldery. Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries In the old monastic days he remembered to have heard such a sound when he had walked out one windy night at Bucklershard, and had listened to the long waves breaking upon the shingly shore. The White Company With a threatening gesture of his hand, he turned from the door, and Ferrier heard his heavy step scrunching along the shingly path. A Study in Scarlet Towering crag and shingly scree showed blue and purple through it and then flashed again into brilliancy, while the long, grassy slopes gleamed with silvery gray and ocher. Vane of the Timberlands How gay the river-side looked, with its fine broad landing stage, and the numberless boats ready to push off on the swift water, which kept growing and growing on the shingly shore! The Vicar's Daughter The valley is rather wider, soil much less shingly, and capable of cultivation; several patches of trees are visible in many directions, indicating villages. Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries The men sat at their doors talking in monosyllables to their wives and mates; the children were asleep; and the full ocean breaking and tinkling upon the shingly coast. A Knight of the Nets The limestone rocks and shingly valleys of Judea are entirely covered with plantations of figs, vines, and olive-trees; not a single spot seemed to be neglected. Palestine or the Holy Land From the Earliest Period to the Present Time Then turning the flank of a steep ascent, they reached the foot of a shingly scree, and sat down to lunch in the warm sunshine where the wind was cut off by the peak above. Vane of the Timberlands I was almost naked, and quite bare upon the feet, but I ran over the shingly beach towards the sea like wildfire. What Led to the Discovery of the Source of the Nile I have obtained some few specimens of fossil shells from the shingly beds of the Khyber Pass. Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries These boats conveyed us to within a mile of the city, when carts, drawn by five horses, met us in the surf and drew us on to the wet, shingly beach. Through Five Republics on Horseback, Being an Account of Many Wanderings in South America In his "Indian-Summer Reverie" we catch a glimpse of the hen-hawk, silently sailing overhead "With watchful, measuring eye," the robin feeding on cedar berries, and the squirrel, "On the shingly shagbark's bough." The Writings of John Burroughs — Volume 05: Pepacton Then they walked up the shingly beach side by side, and they overheard Père Lastique say to the baron, "My! but they would make a pretty couple!" Une Vie, a Piece of String and Other Stories The stream was nearly dry and the bed was very shingly, and as the startled tiger picked its way gingerly across the pebbles and pools of water it looked like a stranded cat. Bengal Dacoits and Tigers The road tolerable, over gravelly or shingly ground: it was at first level, until we reached a mountain gorge, when it became undulated. Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries While she exercised her power the natives knelt around her on the shingly beach in rapturous devotion. Through Five Republics on Horseback, Being an Account of Many Wanderings in South America She would have climbed the shingly steep of Cotapaxi with him—or crossed the great Sahara with him—and feared nothing. Phantom Fortune, a Novel Two other sailors helped to shove off the boat from shore, which was not easy on the shingly beach. Une Vie, a Piece of String and Other Stories X. I murmur, under moon and stars In brambly wildernesses, I linger by my shingly bars, I loiter round my cresses. Practice Book This ridge, like all the low ones from Mookhloor to this place, is rounded, very shingly, and generally on the northern face, is partly covered with rocks, apparently limestone. Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries Every variety of shore, from shingly beaches to craggy headlands, was theirs. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 12, October, 1858 Their backs ached, their hands were blistered, and the shingly pebbles got into their shoes. The Happy Adventurers This opening is something like the grain shoot of a mill, or a screen for riddling gravel, so steep is the pitch of the ground, and so narrow the shingly ledge at the bottom. Mary Anerley : a Yorkshire Tale A waterfall dashing from the upper part of the bank fell headlong in spray and foam, and quietly spread itself among the round shingly fragments that formed the beach of the lake. Lost in the Backwoods The road good, shingly, but not very bouldery; very winding, and generally capable of strong defence; much cover exists from the rugged margins of cliffs, and windings of the road. Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries Some of the bigger boys ran round to receive and secure it on the farther shore, trying their speed against each other as they sprang like young fawns along the shingly verge of the lake. The Abbot "It was here, almost to a T, or my name is not Richard Gordon," he muttered, and, stooping carefully, he scooped up a double handful of shingly sand from the river bottom. The Happy Adventurers Then on the shingly breakwater themselves They landed, and the sacred hecatomb To great Apollo; and Chryseis last. The Iliad The configuration of the shingly beach changed while one looked at it. The Home of the Blizzard Being the Story of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914 Their wide, shingly beds are in summer comparatively dry, so as to be easily forded by the foot passenger. The Iliad Steady on she came, toward the three big ledges that lie out there beyond that bit of shingly beach at the end of the point. The Valley of Vision : a Book of Romance an Some Half Told Tales Some distance away a creek wound between wide banks of shingly sand and low boulders. The Happy Adventurers Grass would not grow there except in summer, and its gray, shingly sides were an eye-sore to its owner. Station Amusements in New Zealand We soon realized that seventy or eighty pounds was not a light load over a half-mile stretch of rough, shingly beach, but succeeded in transporting the onions, apples and potatoes before finishing for the night. The Home of the Blizzard Being the Story of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914 Finally, I came to the last and largest group of all, the end of the village nearest to the sea, within ten minutes' walk of the shingly beach. Afoot in England The accession of this water materially altered the appearance of the river, as it began to form long and wide reaches, with alternate rapids over a shingly bottom. Journals of Two Expeditions into the Interior of New South Wales Henceforth our path lay through pleasant places; shady trees, long grass, and frequent pools of water in the shingly beds of the creeks made a welcome change after the awful desolation of the desert. Spinifex and Sand I murmur, under moon and stars In brambly wildernesses, I linger by my shingly bars, I loiter round my cresses. Evolution of Expression — Volume 1 Down on a strip of shingly beach the birds parade, when not in the rookery or at sea getting food. The Home of the Blizzard Being the Story of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914 I heard too a vague and indistinct noise, something like the murmuring of waves breaking upon a shingly shore, and at times I seemed to hear the whistling of wind. A Journey to the Interior of the Earth And he waited, knowing that the time would come when he would be told to descend the hill, pass through the village, and step out, under the heavy grey clouds, upon the little shingly beach. Jeremy By and by we turned up the shingly river-bed which leads to the spot on which my hut is built. A First Year in Canterbury Settlement Tennyson's Bugle Song: "O sweet and far, from cliff and scar;" and in the Idyls of the King: "shingly scaur." The Lady of the Lake Some of these streams do not reach the sea immediately, but disappear in the loose shingly beaches of peaty swamps. The Home of the Blizzard Being the Story of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914 Between the Palace and the Basse Ville the waves at high tide washed over a shingly beach where there were already the beginnings of a street. The Golden Dog At the same time, Dr. Bathurst and Rose came silently to meet them along the shingly beach. The Pigeon Pie The materials of the cottage were the shingly stones which had fallen from above, plastered rudely together, with deep recesses for the small oblong windows. Doom of the Griffiths I can think of a country where you see little brown or red clapboarded houses that are neither solid nor elegant, that are both slight and awkward,—angular and shingly and dismal. Gala-days It is the hour of mediocrity under the best conditions; but eleven o’clock on a shingly beach, in a half-hearted summer, is a very common thing. The Children Before her stretched a long and level plain, a fringe of sand, and a belt of shingly beach. The Zeppelin's Passenger She came on till he could just see her—a shadow ascending the shingly slope, and growing out of the blackness of the night. No Name As I stepped out from a thicket on to the shingly bank of the river, a spotted sandpiper teetered along before me, followed by three young ones. Fisherman's Luck and Some Other Uncertain Things As they rode at full gallop over the shingly rocks and into the dark opening of the defile beyond, I thought I had never read or dreamed of a more strange or picturesque cavalcade. The Oregon Trail: sketches of prairie and Rocky-Mountain life Little was visible except beetling crags and the bare shingly sides of the mountains, relieved by scarcely a trace of vegetation. The Oregon Trail: sketches of prairie and Rocky-Mountain life |
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