sea-drift
Example Sentences
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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 Henry Lawson
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 J. Hamilton Fyfe
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 R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne
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
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 Sir Francis Darwin