sea-drift
Example Sentences
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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
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
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.
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)
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
