I had been drowned, but that the shore was shelvy and shallow, — a death that I abhor; for the water swells. From Wordnik.com. [The Merry Wives of Windsor] Reference
I proceeded slowly along the road, the lake below me on my right hand, whilst the shelvy side of Snowdon rose above me on the left. From Wordnik.com. [Wild Wales : Its People, Language and Scenery] Reference
I have said before very shelvy; still as she went her eyes were directed towards the wall, which was not always very easy to be seen, for thorns, tall nettles and shrubs, were growing up against it. From Wordnik.com. [Wild Wales : Its People, Language and Scenery] Reference
I had been drowned, but that the shore was shelvy and shallow, -- a death that. From Wordnik.com. [The Merry Wives of Windsor The Works of William Shakespeare [Cambridge Edition] [9 vols.]] Reference
In his marines, he followed the same taste; they represent the desolate and shelvy shores of. From Wordnik.com. [Anecdotes of Painters, Engravers, Sculptors and Architects, and Curiosities of Art, (Vol. 2 of 3)] Reference
The route lay between a range of low islands, and a shelvy beach, very monotonous and dreary. From Wordnik.com. [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] Reference
I had been drowned but that the shore was shelvy and shallow; a death that I abhor, for the water swells. From Wordnik.com. [The Merry Wives of Windsor] Reference
I had been drowned, but that the shore was shelvy and shallow, -- a death that I abhor; for the water swells. From Wordnik.com. [The Merry Wives of Windsor] Reference
Half garrulously, and like a shallow brook might brawl across a shelvy bottom, the rhythmic little changeling thus began. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Works of James Whitcomb Riley, Volume 10] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [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.] Reference
I had been drowned but that the shore was shelvy and shallow; a death that I abhor, for the water swells a man, and what a thing should I have been when I had been swelled!. From Wordnik.com. [Act III. Scene V. The Merry Wives of Windsor] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [Wanderings in South America] Reference
On one side of me lay a wood, than which nature cannot produce a finer, and on the other the Thames, with its shelvy bank and charming lawns rising like an amphitheatre, along which, here and there, one espies a picturesque white house, aspiring in majestic simplicity to pierce the dark foliage of the surrounding trees; thus studding, like stars in the galaxy, the rich expanse of this charming vale. From Wordnik.com. [Travels in England in 1782] Reference
The bat in the shelvy rock is hid. From Wordnik.com. [The Culprit Fay and Other Poems] Reference
The bat in the shelvy rock is hid. From Wordnik.com. [Choice Specimens of American Literature, and Literary Reader Being Selections from the Chief American Writers] Reference
The bat in the shelvy rock is hid. From Wordnik.com. [History of American Literature] Reference
Here, foaming down the shelvy rocks. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham] Reference
But firm undaunted as a shelvy strand. From Wordnik.com. [The Columbiad] Reference
The stone pit with its shelvy sides. From Wordnik.com. [Poems Chiefly from Manuscript] Reference
A skiff she notes, by the shelvy marge. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 54, No. 338, December 1843] Reference
On Idras cliffs as Arnos shelvy side. From Wordnik.com. [The Traveller. Or, a Prospect of Society] Reference
Of shelvy rocks, pointing their guns below. From Wordnik.com. [The International Monthly, Volume 2, No. 4, March, 1851] Reference
With shelvy barren rocks; around, o'erhead. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 349, November, 1844] Reference
Margined and flanked by slanting shelvy ledges. From Wordnik.com. [The International Monthly, Volume 2, No. 4, March, 1851] Reference
Death stands between thee and that shelvy shore. From Wordnik.com. [The Columbiad] Reference
Arno's shelvy side. From Wordnik.com. [Selections from Five English Poets] Reference
Skelvy, shelvy. From Wordnik.com. [Glossary] Reference
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