Fishes go in shoals, bees in swarms, cattle in herds, and the normal man is gregarious. From Wordnik.com. [Janey Canuck in the West] Reference
Throughout the following century, revolutionaries of all stripes would be buffeted against the twin shoals of optimism and disillusionment. From Wordnik.com. [The long grave already dug] Reference
But the east winds blow; and the shoals are a yeasty mass of tumbling breakers. From Wordnik.com. [Ways of Wood Folk] Reference
A shrimp-shaped collection of reefs, the shoals were a notoriously tricky spot. From Wordnik.com. [NYT > Home Page] Reference
In fact, some of the best "shoals" are really nothing more than gravel areas on a shoreline. From Wordnik.com. [How to Fish for Smallmouth Bass in the Fall] Reference
For example, in New York City, we have "shoals," and here is a fairly typical one that formed in front of me recently. From Wordnik.com. [The Indignity of Commuting by Bicycle: Same Attitude, Different Infrastructure] Reference
How do you pronounce the name: Although long pronounced "shoals," the correct pronunciation is. From Wordnik.com. [The Daily News - News] Reference
Navigating the shoals of New York politics is hard enough. From Wordnik.com. [More Than Just A Kiss] Reference
Muscle shoals and the lower shoals at the end of October, 1864. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference
Talk to me of rocks and shoals, me who took the soundings, tell. From Wordnik.com. [Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 8] Reference
He seemed to delight in navigating treacherous political shoals. From Wordnik.com. [‘A Great Public Servant’] Reference
The cutter, not daring to venture amongst the shoals, sent her boat in. From Wordnik.com. [The Cornwall Coast] Reference
"The ship is floating backward toward the shoals of racial segregation.". From Wordnik.com. [A New Era Of Segregation] Reference
Mississippi, and follows close to the banks of the river up to the shoals. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference
Oysters occurred in vast banks and shoals within sight of the Jamestown fort. From Wordnik.com. [The Bounty of the Chesapeake Fishing in Colonial Virginia] Reference
My friends in New York received shoals of anxious e-mail to see how they were. From Wordnik.com. [A Washingtonian Looks At His City] Reference
All of these things, to me, as a clinician, seemed to point to rocky shoals ahead. —. From Wordnik.com. [And then she was gone] Reference
On the edges of these shoals in Nominy River or in holes between the rocks is plenty of fish. From Wordnik.com. [The Bounty of the Chesapeake Fishing in Colonial Virginia] Reference
"In whatever direction we looked, the sea was covered with shoals as far as the eye could see.". From Wordnik.com. [A Book of Discovery The History of the World's Exploration, From the Earliest Times to the Finding of the South Pole] Reference
It is always observed to be proceeding towards the north in successive shoals and in great numbers. From Wordnik.com. [The Art of Living in Australia ; together with three hundred Australian cookery recipes and accessory kitchen information by Mrs. H. Wicken] Reference
The president's mantra that we'll "stay the course" doesn't make much sense when we're on the shoals. From Wordnik.com. [Shadowland: Indecent Interval] Reference
And every week shoals of visitors arrived, brought from the station in large breaks drawn by four horses. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
Condrey discovered several years ago that some even deposit offspring on shoals miles offshore in the Gulf. From Wordnik.com. [Oiled Crabs Provide Evidence Of Tainted Gulf Food Web] Reference
Now, in Australia, we have vast shoals of migratory fish visiting the coast at different periods of the year. From Wordnik.com. [The Art of Living in Australia ; together with three hundred Australian cookery recipes and accessory kitchen information by Mrs. H. Wicken] Reference
Up at Rockypoint there is deep water close in shore, but it shoals very fast both ways, up or down the beach. From Wordnik.com. [The Moving Picture Boys on the Coast] Reference
And the global economic boom, which has helped Latin leaders navigate these rocky political shoals, can't last forever. From Wordnik.com. [Latin Leaders Follow No Boss] Reference
And yet if the Institute does not escort its daughters in shoals to applaud Andromache, where on earth does it take them?. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
The troops pushed forward in the grey mysterious gloom to the ping of bullets that whizzed in shoals swiftly past their ears. From Wordnik.com. [South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. 2 (of 6) From the Commencement of the War to the Battle of Colenso, 15th Dec. 1899] Reference
Suddenly a dreadful storm of wind and rain arose, and, being surrounded with rocks and shoals, the ship was constantly striking. From Wordnik.com. [A Book of Discovery The History of the World's Exploration, From the Earliest Times to the Finding of the South Pole] Reference
The Tennessee River was patrolled by gunboats, from Muscle shoals east; and, also, below the second shoals out to the Ohio River. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference
He experienced much difficulty, however, in getting ahead rapidly, because of the bars and shoals, upon which the boats grounded. From Wordnik.com. [Kinston, Whitehall and Goldsboro (North Carolina) expedition, December, 1862] Reference
Redstone, the notoriously litigious billionaire, is well suited to steer Blockbuster through the rocky shoals of the Texas courts. From Wordnik.com. [Chips Off The Block] Reference
But the little treasure-laden ship was nearly wrecked before she got away from the dangerous shoals and currents of these islands. From Wordnik.com. [A Book of Discovery The History of the World's Exploration, From the Earliest Times to the Finding of the South Pole] Reference
"I am receiving shoals of letters and telegrams," he wrote to me on the day of the announcement; "I suppose you know the reason Y.". From Wordnik.com. [The History of "Punch"] Reference
Storms on the lakes, and snags and shoals on the rivers, often made the pioneers regret that they had left the forests for the waters. From Wordnik.com. [Woman on the American Frontier] Reference
"There is a yacht club on the sound, but we are going to row up the bay past the shoals and get as far from civilization as possible.". From Wordnik.com. [Madge Morton's Victory] Reference
Crossing to the southern shore, they found to their bitter grief that shoals and sandbanks made it impossible for them to reach the sea. From Wordnik.com. [A Book of Discovery The History of the World's Exploration, From the Earliest Times to the Finding of the South Pole] Reference
Accordingly, we never find a genuine specimen of the class, among the emigrants, who come in shoals and flocks, and pitch their tents in. From Wordnik.com. [Western Characters or Types of Border Life in the Western States] Reference
August, when the huers have already taken up their position on the high places around, in order to signal the first sighting of the shoals. From Wordnik.com. [The Cornwall Coast] Reference
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