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  • There the water gurgled under the bladder-wrack of the large stones; the air was cool and clammy.

    The Trespasser 2003

  • Pampiniform it writhes, bladder-wrack or kelp, a heavy swell that slops about rustily in the basalt trough, breaking through the sea rush;

    Unmanned Stephen Oliver

  • He had been there, but whatever difference he had made was of the same significance now as the dry bladder-wrack, the mummied gull near by, and the bleached shells.

    Old Junk 1915

  • There the water gurgled under the bladder-wrack of the large stones; the air was cool and clammy.

    The Trespasser 1907

  • "Let's have a good sizable drum," said he; "something with a voice in it, not a bit of a toot, going off with a pop like bladder-wrack."

    The Manxman A Novel - 1895 Hall Caine 1892

  • When the joy of the summer was in the air, and the larks were singing high up in the sky, it seemed rather pleasant than otherwise to paddle about among the quiet pools and on the cold bladder-wrack.

    The Romance of the Coast James Runciman 1871

  • "Long strands of bladder-wrack," said Joe, after cautiously raising one leg from the water.

    Sappers and Miners The Flood beneath the Sea George Manville Fenn 1870

  • Another angle of the zigzag rift was passed, and then the rugged stony flooring gave place to dark, deep water, beautifully transparent -- so clear that the many-tinted fronds of bladder-wrack and other weeds could be seen swaying to and fro under the influence of the tide which rose and fell.

    The Lost Middy Being the Secret of the Smugglers' Gap George Manville Fenn 1870

  • "Not a rock on 'em, messmet; but I can hear the bladder-wrack washing in and out."

    The Lost Middy Being the Secret of the Smugglers' Gap George Manville Fenn 1870

  • For the contents of the net were curious; and as the cork line was drawn back flat on the sands, there was plenty of work for the men to pick off the net the masses of tangled fucus and bladder-wrack which had come up with the tide.

    Sappers and Miners The Flood beneath the Sea George Manville Fenn 1870

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