| 单词 | spoondrift |
| 例句 | It was impossible to face the scud and spoondrift from the furious sea; but to leeward he caught a glimpse of a marsh flooded with salt water, its reedy vegetation beaten flat by the storm. Into the Primitive It tears the foaming crests off half a dozen waves, and sends them swirling down to leeward in shivering sheets of snowy spoondrift. Harper's Round Table, June 25, 1895 At six bells in the morning watch the main-topsail blew out of the bolt-ropes with a report like a gun's, and went swirling away into the flying spoondrift down on our lee quarter. Harper's Round Table, June 18, 1895 She dodged occasionally to protect her eyes from the spoondrift which slatted so sharply across the deck and 156 into the cockpit. Wyn's Camping Days or, The Outing of the Go-Ahead Club The oil slick helped only a little; every few moments a wave with spoondrift flying from it would smash across the deck, volleying tons of water between rails, with a sound like thunder. Blow The Man Down A Romance Of The Coast - 1916 Amid a mass of spoondrift the schooner drove helplessly before it. Salt Water The Sea Life and Adventures of Neil D'Arcy the Midshipman The spoondrift, too, came straight along our deck, over the taffrail, as if it would cut our legs off; for, though we flew at a pretty good rate, it flew faster. The Three Lieutenants The spoondrift began to fly so that you could not see the moon, and the wind was enough to choke you if you faced it. The Chequers Being the Natural History of a Public-House, Set Forth in a Loafer's Diary A curtain of spoondrift hung above that awful reef and almost shut from the view of those ashore the open sea and what swam on it. Cap'n Abe, Storekeeper |
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