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

He was very fond of spending what leisure time he had in strolling along the rocky coast searching for sea-drift and minerals, or reading some favourite book.

From Triumphs of Invention and Discovery in Art and Science by Fyfe, J. Hamilton

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

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

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