An ungainly figure came skittering through the shallows around the waterworn rocks. From Wordnik.com. [Daybreak 2250 AD]
The rounded, waterworn stones made the surface treacherous and slippery and difficult to negotiate. From Wordnik.com. [THE SEARCH FOR SPOCK] Reference
Other portions of woods had their ends waterworn, and were full of long cracks, such as appear in wood long exposed to the sun. From Wordnik.com. [Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia] Reference
Its waterworn pebbles and small bowlders were subsequently covered by lake deposit, during the time between the inclosure and break out at San Carlos. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 832, December 12, 1891] Reference
Amongst the waterworn pebbles in the bed of the river, we found various portions of coal and the rocky sections in parts of the banks resembled its concomitant strata. From Wordnik.com. [Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia] Reference
The blocks are not waterworn, their angles being only a little blunted; they vary in size from one or two feet in diameter to ten, or even more than twenty times as much. From Wordnik.com. [Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle] Reference
On these rounded off banks or bergs of forest land, Youranigh drew my attention to large, old, waterworn, trunks of trees, which he showed me had been deposited there by floods. From Wordnik.com. [Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia] Reference
The globe had been trailing along the coastline, and now it angled out to glide over a long finger of cape, rocky and waterworn, which pointed at almost a right angle into the sea. From Wordnik.com. [Star Born] Reference
We found regular terrace beaches with rounded waterworn stones all over it; its height is 65 feet. From Wordnik.com. [Scott's Last Expedition Volume I] Reference
This pudding is composed of waterworn pebbles, bedded in a dark clayey soil which crumbles under the touch. From Wordnik.com. [To The Gold Coast for Gold, Vol. II A Personal Narrative] Reference
Again I saw fields crusted with stone like the fields of Cong, with the same waterworn appearance, but not so extensive. From Wordnik.com. [The Letters of "Norah" on Her Tour Through Ireland] Reference
After visiting the island it was easy for us to trace the same terrace formation on the coast; in one place we found waterworn stones over 100 feet above sea-level. From Wordnik.com. [Scott's Last Expedition Volume I] Reference
To fully understand the appeal of the piece, aside from the fact that I love silver and smooth waterworn rocks -- when I was a kid, my family joked that only my back got brown at the beach, because I always had my head down looking for treasures -- you need to know that before. From Wordnik.com. [Rickety Contrivances of Doing Good] Reference
I hoped to reach the Bokhara, on the West, a river shown on the map sent me by the Commissioner of the district, but after travelling about seven miles to the northward, I saw rising ground before me, which induced me to turn towards our own friendly river the Narran; but it proved to be very far from us, while in my search for it, to my surprise, I found it necessary to descend several considerable declivities, covered with waterworn pebbles. From Wordnik.com. [Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia] Reference
And the reflection of waterworn cliffs ages old. From Wordnik.com. [untitled poem] Reference
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