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They spent a night on a shaly beach, with no shelter and no fire.

From "Homecoming" by Cynthia Voigt

A layer of peat at the summit has a thin slaty structure, and presents altogether, except in colour and lustre, a striking resemblance to the shaly lignite, forming bed No. 3 in the preceding Section.

From Narrative of a Second Expedition to the Shores of the Polar Sea by Franklin, John

To reach it we climb a bare, steep ridge of shaly, frost-shattered rock, in which we sink ankle deep, a difficult and even painful task with the laboured breathing of twelve thousand feet altitude.

From The Columbia River Its History, Its Myths, Its Scenery, Its Commerce by Lyman, William Denison

Arriving there, a short shaly slope led to a similar chimney, up which we climbed.

From Among the Canadian Alps by Burpee, Lawrence J. (Lawrence Johnstone)

The ground was all scree of slate and shaly rock.

From Gudrid the Fair A Tale of the Discovery of America by Hewlett, Maurice Henry