Landed at a shingly little beach. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
And down the shingly scaur he plunged, and caught. From Wordnik.com. [Idylls of the King] Reference
The inclined valleys are very shingly and bouldery. From Wordnik.com. [Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries] Reference
The waves broke with a great noise on the shingly beach. From Wordnik.com. [The Nursery, September 1873, Vol. XIV. No. 3] Reference
They found this settlement a collection of huts on a shingly beach. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 380, June, 1847] Reference
Good sound watering-place; shingly and sandy beach for about a mile. From Wordnik.com. [McKinlay's Journal of Exploration in the Interior of Australia] Reference
All of them were secretly relieved to find their boat was safe on the shingly beach. From Wordnik.com. [The Sea of Adventure]
At the mouth, the pass opens out into a good breadth, with an even, small, shingly bottom. From Wordnik.com. [Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries] Reference
The sculptor turned up the shingly slope toward the sun-white ridge of higher hills inland. From Wordnik.com. [The Yoke A Romance of the Days when the Lord Redeemed the Children of Israel from the Bondage of Egypt] Reference
By and by we turned up the shingly river-bed which leads to the spot on which my hut is built. From Wordnik.com. [A First Year in Canterbury Settlement] Reference
Crossing a stream, they came across the spoor of a lion in the shingly mud at the water's edge. From Wordnik.com. [The Falcons of Montabard]
Two other sailors helped to shove off the boat from shore, which was not easy on the shingly beach. From Wordnik.com. [Une Vie] Reference
While she exercised her power the natives knelt around her on the shingly beach in rapturous devotion. From Wordnik.com. [Through Five Republics on Horseback, Being an Account of Many Wanderings in South America] Reference
Then they walked up the shingly beach side by side, and they overheard Père Lastique say to the baron. From Wordnik.com. [Une Vie] Reference
Their wide, shingly beds are in summer comparatively dry, so as to be easily forded by the foot passenger. From Wordnik.com. [The Iliad of Homer] Reference
"It is so bad for a woman to be alone," said he to himself, shambling along the shingly beach a moment after. From Wordnik.com. [Humorous Masterpieces from American Literature] Reference
"That place will do," muttered the observant sub, looking towards a shingly sort of beach beneath some cliffs. From Wordnik.com. [The Kangaroo Marines] Reference
The plains generally consist of a deep alluvial silt, interspersed with shingly patches, containing boulder stones. From Wordnik.com. [Rambles in the Islands of Corsica and Sardinia with Notices of their History, Antiquities, and Present Condition.] Reference
We backed into position on the sloping shingly ground near the side of the canal, and waited for the barge to come in. From Wordnik.com. [Fanny Goes to War] Reference
The country is not shingly, but the soil is mixed with small pebbles; to our right is a bold hill; vegetation the same. From Wordnik.com. [Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries] Reference
I heard too a vague and indistinct noise, something like the murmuring of waves breaking upon a shingly shore, and at times. From Wordnik.com. [Journey to the Interior of the Earth] Reference
Together they squeezed their soft bodies among the hard rocks, seeking safety by pressing their faces into damp shingly sand. From Wordnik.com. [HOTHOUSE]
She came on till he could just see her — a shadow ascending the shingly slope, and growing out of the blackness of the night. From Wordnik.com. [No Name] Reference
Chiltera, Astragalus, calycibus non-inflatis, tomentoso villoso, this last with Composita dislocata is common on shingly plains. From Wordnik.com. [Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries] Reference
Suddenly the boat's keel grazed the shingly strand, and there before him, half shrouded in the shadows of evening, was Bon Repos. From Wordnik.com. [The Argosy Vol. 51, No. 3, March, 1891] Reference
Along the rippled sands (stay, are they rippled sands or shingly beach?) the prawn-boy seeks the delicious material of your breakfast. From Wordnik.com. [The Newcomes] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [Through Five Republics on Horseback, Being an Account of Many Wanderings in South America] Reference
A shingly beach, evidently a busy trading-place, was reached, and there stood a young man and young woman, handsome and well-dressed, who assisted her to land. From Wordnik.com. [Mary Slessor of Calabar: Pioneer Missionary] Reference
CASTLE, built at the extremity of a long strip of shingly land stretching out from the Hampshire coast, which here contracts the width of the Solent Channel to less than a mile. From Wordnik.com. [Brannon's Picture of The Isle of Wight The Expeditious Traveller's Index to Its Prominent Beauties & Objects of Interest. Compiled Especially with Reference to Those Numerous Visitors Who Can Spare but Two or Three Days to Make the Tour of the Island.] Reference
On glaring reach of shining beach, and shingly wall of rock. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Works of Whittier] Reference
Athens to shop .... far too meanly pretty shingly things to catch. From Wordnik.com. [TravelPod.com TravelStream™ — Recent Entries at TravelPod.com] Reference
They descended the sandy and shingly beach until further progress was barred by the lapping wavelets of the rising tide. From Wordnik.com. [The Submarine Hunters A Story of the Naval Patrol Work in the Great War] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [The Mystery of the Green Ray] Reference
Sea-poppies there are, too, groves of them, growing in the sandy stretches that lie close to and border the wide, shingly beach. From Wordnik.com. [Ladies-In-Waiting] Reference
The Nab Lightships, that had detected an elongated shadow creeping stealthily over the shingly bottom close to the Dean Tail Buoy. From Wordnik.com. [The Submarine Hunters A Story of the Naval Patrol Work in the Great War] Reference
How do I know that the shingly beach that runs diagonally across painting No 19 extends out of the frame, on and on to a vanishing point?. From Wordnik.com. [Culture | guardian.co.uk] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [The Ocean Wireless Boys And The Naval Code] Reference
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