sea-drift
Example Sentences
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She turned toward the south and walked along the edge of the sea-drift.
From Where the Sun Swings North by Willoughby, Barrett
Poseidon, rider of the wild sea-drift, Tamed them, men say, and gave them for his gift To Peleus.—None the less, since I have stirred Hopes, I will baulk them not.
From The Rhesus of Euripedes by Euripedes
Shall it dash 'neath cliffs untrodden, Rocks where nought but sea-drift strays?
From In the Days When the World Was Wide and Other Verses by Lawson, Henry
When this happens, birds alight there; sea-drift is carried thither; seeds are blown to it by the wind; and gradually a few green blades arise.
From The Ocean and its Wonders by Ballantyne, R. M. (Robert Michael)
Every man, woman, and child in that chapel amid gray miles of rock and sea-drift, has heard over and over of the unrepentant deathbed of Mauryeen Holion.
From An Isle in the Water by Tynan, Katharine
