Grainger saw that on the sandbank were a number of dead fish which had been swept down the creek from pools higher up. From Wordnik.com. ["Chinkie's Flat" 1904] Reference
Perched upon a sandbank was a regiment of enormous white pelicans of thoughtful and sage-like physiognomy, ranged in a row, as if to watch how we passed the bar. From Wordnik.com. [Life in Mexico] Reference
He scrambled up the sandbank, holding out a calloused hand. From Wordnik.com. [The Cat Who Went Underground]
I met Chips up the river, stuck on a sandbank, so I came along. From Wordnik.com. [Colorado Jim] Reference
The sandbank was called Haul-round Islet and the island Entrance. From Wordnik.com. [Narrative of a Survey of the Intertropical and Western Coasts of Australia Performed between the years 1818 and 1822 — Volume 1] Reference
Here we were detained for some time, by grounding upon a sandbank. From Wordnik.com. [Narrative of a Survey of the Intertropical and Western Coasts of Australia Performed between the years 1818 and 1822 — Volume 1] Reference
The ship still refused to answer the helm and grounded on a sandbank. From Wordnik.com. [Jewish Fairy Tales and Legends] Reference
As he looked, the punt struck a submerged sandbank and beached on it. From Wordnik.com. [Colorado Jim] Reference
P.M. On the sandbank where we dined I gathered a Crotalaria, Campanula. From Wordnik.com. [Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries] Reference
At the outer end of the Maplins a long, narrow sandbank, known as the Middle. From Wordnik.com. [Famous Sea Fights From Salamis to Tsu-Shima] Reference
Over against the inhabited part of the island is what is now a mere sandbank. From Wordnik.com. [Disturbed Ireland Being the Letters Written During the Winter of 1880-81.] Reference
Just as he rounded a corner formed by a projecting sandbank the donkey slipped. From Wordnik.com. [The Dodge Club or, Italy in MDCCCLIX] Reference
Finally, at the end of the afternoon, she grounded hard on a Weser River sandbank. From Wordnik.com. [Castles of Steel]
We halted on a sandbank about one mile and a half higher up to the south of Tsilone. From Wordnik.com. [Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries] Reference
A shallow sandbank had appeared in the sea and the water had receded from the beach. From Wordnik.com. [Science Fiction Hall of Fame]
'Dry as a sandbank,' said Hill, who was already chuckling over the sport in prospect. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly , Vol. 2 No. 5, November 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy] Reference
The wind weighed against Sharina like a collapsing sandbank; its howl numbed her ears. From Wordnik.com. [Lord of the Isles] Reference
To the northward of this point was an island and farther on to seaward a dry sandbank. From Wordnik.com. [Narrative of a Survey of the Intertropical and Western Coasts of Australia Performed between the years 1818 and 1822 — Volume 1] Reference
From the cover of a sandbank, we had a view of all that was going on in the plain below. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 54, No. 334, August 1843] Reference
Then she tried the sandbank, but the sand caved in and got in her eyes and almost smothered her. From Wordnik.com. [The Magic Speech Flower or Little Luke and His Animal Friends] Reference
They raced toward the oncoming figure still a few hundred yards away on the edge of the sandbank. From Wordnik.com. [The Black Phantom] Reference
The excursion steamer will run upon a sandbank, and will there remain fast for a part of the day. From Wordnik.com. [The Treasury of Ancient Egypt Miscellaneous Chapters on Ancient Egyptian History and Archaeology] Reference
The steamer had run on the sandbank of an uninhabited island, and there she stuck fast -- immovable. From Wordnik.com. [Through Five Republics on Horseback, Being an Account of Many Wanderings in South America] Reference
Toward evening they took the small boat and rowed out to the sandbank which they called Needle Islet. From Wordnik.com. [Cord and Creese] Reference
Stevenson also thought our sandbank of reason "would continue to grow like some of man's better dreams.". From Wordnik.com. [Jill Robinson: Election Reflections] Reference
The snaky-like line represents a sandbank, which was then thought, and agreed, to be the limit of fishing. 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
At 5: 15 o'clock we ran up to a wide sandbank on which grew a solitary willow tree and there Camp 99 was made. From Wordnik.com. [A Canyon Voyage The Narrative of the Second Powell Expedition down the Green-Colorado River from Wyoming, and the Explorations on Land, in the Years 1871 and 1872] Reference
It was in anticipation of this that the others clung to the shelter of the sandbank and I was left to work alone. From Wordnik.com. [The Incomparable 29th and the "River Clyde"] Reference
Soon there was water of a navigable depth above every sandbank, and there was no longer a swirl to indicate a shallow. From Wordnik.com. [Sea-Dogs All! A Tale of Forest and Sea] Reference
Getty Images Volunteers spread plastic over a sandbank to raise the height of a levee Monday evening near Oakville, Iowa. From Wordnik.com. [Midwest Floods May Drive] Reference
Three the east forces from the deep into shallows and quicksands, piteous to see, dashes on shoals and girdles with a sandbank. From Wordnik.com. [The Aeneid of Virgil] Reference
"Well spoken, master pilot; but if thou canst keep our lives free of danger from shoal and sandbank, we'll e'en try to do the rest.". From Wordnik.com. [Sea-Dogs All! A Tale of Forest and Sea] Reference
He digs into a cliff or sandbank a long tunnel quite as long as your arm, and just big enough for him to pop in and out with comfort. From Wordnik.com. [The Children's Book of London] Reference
Before stopping for the night we ran three more rapids, and camped on the right on a sandbank at the head of another forbidding place. From Wordnik.com. [A Canyon Voyage The Narrative of the Second Powell Expedition down the Green-Colorado River from Wyoming, and the Explorations on Land, in the Years 1871 and 1872] Reference
We continued our course when the wind lulled; halted to dine on a sandbank, and proceeded on afterwards, until we reached Kabuct about 8.5. From Wordnik.com. [Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries] Reference
And my Pandaw cruise got caught in a sudden big storm in Cambodia, briefly stranding passengers in the rain on a sandbank, where they had gathered for a barbecue sunset dinner. From Wordnik.com. [River Journeys] Reference
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