drift-wood

Henry dutifully walked round it, but he much preferred talking to a beggar in the garden outside and studying the twisted shape of pieces of drift-wood thrown up by the sea on the beach.

Henry’s Demons Patrick Cockburn 2011

Henry dutifully walked round it, but he much preferred talking to a beggar in the garden outside and studying the twisted shape of pieces of drift-wood thrown up by the sea on the beach.

Henry’s Demons Patrick Cockburn 2011

They wash over it like drift-wood, completely emptied of all energy and will.

Runners Jack Canfield 2010

They wash over it like drift-wood, completely emptied of all energy and will.

Runners Jack Canfield 2010

There was no tinge of gold on it this evening, for it had been swollen by the rains, and rolled an angry and muddy flood under his inattentive eyes, carrying small drift-wood and big dead logs, and whole uprooted trees with branches and foliage, amongst which the water swirled and roared angrily.

Almayer's Folly 2006

Ella said that when they were little kids, Jill would sit fully clothed beneath an old black umbrella at the beach and read, while Ella, in her checkered bikini, would build a sand stage right next to her, decorate it with shells and drift-wood, and then stand up and sing her lungs out into a sand shovel microphone.

What Did I Do Wrong? Liz Pryor 2006

Ella said that when they were little kids, Jill would sit fully clothed beneath an old black umbrella at the beach and read, while Ella, in her checkered bikini, would build a sand stage right next to her, decorate it with shells and drift-wood, and then stand up and sing her lungs out into a sand shovel microphone.

What Did I Do Wrong? Liz Pryor 2006

We had the tent up, long before night fall, and enough drift-wood to keep the fire going till morning.

heaven is a place on earth impetuousme 2005

Martin the foreman, and we soon saw that due preparation had been made, for they took from under some drift-wood (which had prevented us from observing it) a small movable crane, and fixed it on a platform of planks which they set up in the river-bed.

Erema Richard Doddridge 2004

His more particular object was to look for drift-wood; but he did not find a single piece throughout the whole extent of the place.

Narrative of the Voyages Round The World, Performed by Captain James Cook 2003