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There is plenty of scrupulously rendered period detail, as when L'Aurore approaches its destination and we're told that "they were coming up with Cape Hangklip: it was sometimes confused with the real Cape, out of sight on the other side, and unwary westbound ships thinking to turn up for the final run north would similarly find themselves embayed, hence the name—False Bay."

At Journey's End, a Ship of the Line Steve Donoghue 2011

The Elsinore was embayed in a tiny universe of mist and sea.

CHAPTER XXVIII 2010

He gets embayed with Portland-he can't help but go ashore if he goes that way, somewhere near Bridport.

Movie Night 2010

Herself the only daughter of a struggling man of letters, she had during the last year or two taken to writing poems, in an endeavour to find a congenial channel in which to let flow her painfully embayed emotions, whose former limpidity and sparkle seemed departing in the stagnation caused by the routine of a practical household and the gloom of bearing children to a commonplace father.

Wessex Tales 2006

The sea, rolling direct from the shores of North America, has in fact eaten a chasm into the middle of a hill, and the giant, embayed and unobtrusive, stands in the rear of pigmy supporters.

A Pair of Blue Eyes 2006

He had come back from the window, and was standing close to her, who, in the curve of her grand piano, was, as it were, embayed.

To Let 2004

Indian shore; but in the other there is no outlet at all, and it is in vain to strive against the current; so that of course he must be embayed, and run chuck upon a lee-shore.

The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle 2004

In a deep embayed window of leaded glass Mistress Yordas and her widowed sister sat for an hour, without many words, watching the zigzag of shale and rock which formed their chief communication with the peopled world.

Mary Anerley Richard Doddridge 2004

The like is the danger to ships going northward, if after passing by Winterton they are taken short with a north-east wind, and cannot put back into the Roads, which very often happens, then they are driven upon the same coast, and embayed just as the latter.

A Tour through the Eastern Counties of England, 1722 2003

A steep headland springing from a ledge of rock on the north, and a broad, embayed-based flat converging into an obtruding sand-spit to the west, enclose a bay scarcely half a mile from one horn to the other, the sheet of water almost a perfect crescent, with the rocky islet of Purtaboi, plumed with trees, to indicate the circumference of a circle.

The Confessions of a Beachcomber 2003