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  • They had followed it for fifty yards, and come to a ridge of rock, heaped with ore-weed, beyond which (it was certain) no ordinary tide ever penetrated.

    Major Vigoureux Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903

  • Do you know of any manure better than the ore-weed you gather down at the Cove?

    I Saw Three Ships and Other Winter Tales Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903

  • While the men finished lining the sides of the kiln with stones, the women and girls would leap into it with armfuls of furze; which they lighted and so, strewing the dried ore-weed upon it, built little by little into a blazing pile.

    Major Vigoureux Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903

  • Twice he tried to run, and twice he fell through weakness, but he came ashore at last at a place where the beach ended in a low ridge of rock covered with ore-weed.

    Merry-Garden and Other Stories Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903

  • A tangle of ore-weed awash rose and fell about its base; and from under this, as the frothy waves drew back, he saw a man's ankle protruding, and a foot still wearing a shoe.

    The Ship of Stars Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903

  • At first this passage appeared to him to end, some fifteen paces from the entrance, in a barrier of solid rock, but Mr. Rogers, stepping forward with the lantern, revealed a low archway to the left and a second passage, partially choked with ore-weed.

    Major Vigoureux Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903

  • All the summer through, day after day, at low water, the Islanders would be out upon the beaches cutting the ore-weed and dragging it in sledges up the foreshore, where they strewed it above high-water mark, to dry in the sun.

    Major Vigoureux Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903

  • One of the masons lowered himself into the pool, and thrusting an arm beneath the ore-weed, began to grope.

    The Ship of Stars Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903

  • (he's told me this often) a great strip of ore-weed came flying through the darkness and fetched him a slap on the cheek like a cold hand.

    Wandering Heath Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903

  • Across to Stack's Folly, then, Dan'l was driven in a cart, under a great pile of ore-weed; and William Sleep not only gave over the keys and helped to rig up a bed of straw for him -- for the house hadn't a stick of furniture -- but undertook to keep watch against surprise and get a supply of food carried up to him daily from the farmhouse, which stood in the valley below, three-quarters of a mile away.

    Merry-Garden and Other Stories Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903

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