shoaly

A varied and attractive picture this, with the turquoise-blue of the deep water, the purple and leek-green tints of the shoaly and sandy little port, and the tawny shore dotted by six distinct palm-tufts.

The Land of Midian 2003

While this conversation continued, they reached the shoaly inlet under the flower-laden beech.

Hung Lou Meng 2003

I asked, looking across the shoaly waters toward the sands of Monomoy and Cape Cod.

Death on a Vineyard Beach Philip R.Craig 1996

While this conversation continued, they reached the shoaly inlet under the flower-laden beech.

Hung Lou Meng, Book II Or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel in Two Books Xueqin Cao

[52: 2] The long shoaly island in the Lagoon, immediately opposite

Browning's Heroines Ethel Colburn Mayne

Squat to the water, belching black smoke, her engines wheezing and repining, unwieldy of management, her bottom scraping every hummock of sand in all the shoaly

The Long Roll Mary Johnston 1903

Wind, rain, roily, shoaly seas breaking clear over the ship across decks drove Cook out from land to deeper water.

Vikings of the Pacific The Adventures of the Explorers who Came from the West, Eastward 1903

Her engines, this morning, were mortal slow and weak; they wheezed and whined, and she drew so deep that, in that shoaly water, she went aground twice between Sewell's Point and the stretch she had now reached of smooth pink water, with the sea-gulls dipping between her and the Minnesota.

The Long Roll Mary Johnston 1903

The island was very large, rocky, and thickly wooded, and the coast was rocky too, and the water very shoaly, which made me understand how difficult landing must have been in the stormy weather.

Marjorie 1898

They swung round a point and threaded the channel that led among the shoaly waters of Musky Bay.

The Ocean Wireless Boys And The Naval Code John Henry Goldfrap 1898