sea-drift
Example Sentences
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The young people scrambled and slipped over the sea-weed at the mouth of the cave, and presently found themselves standing on a floor of light-coloured sand, strewn with shells and sea-drift.
From The Adventure League by Skae, Hilda T.
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
You will say gulls and dog-fish, etc., would eat up the carcase, and so they would 999 times out of a thousand, but one might escape: I have seen dead land-birds in sea-drift.
From More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 1 by Darwin, Francis, Sir
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
They stopped, leaning over a jagged fence made of sea-drift, to ask for water.
From The Awakening and Selected Short Stories by Chopin, Kate
