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Examples
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It brought the smell of salt, of seawrack and low tide.
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The gang made forays into the gardens of old maids or went down to the castle and fought a battle on the shaggy weed-grown rocks, coming home after it weary stragglers with the stale odours of the foreshore in their nostrils and the rank oils of the seawrack upon their hands and in their hair.
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Signatures of all things I am here to read, seaspawn and seawrack, the nearing tide, that rusty boot.
Ulysses 2003
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The sea had fallen below the line of seawrack on the shallow side of the breakwater and already the tide was running out fast along the foreshore.
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The sea had fallen below the line of seawrack on the shallow side of the breakwater and already the tide was running out fast along the foreshore.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man Joyce, James, 1882-1941 1922
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The gang made forays into the gardens of old maids or went down to the castle and fought a battle on the shaggy weed-grown rocks, coming home after it weary stragglers with the stale odours of the foreshore in their nostrils and the rank oils of the seawrack upon their hands and in their hair.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man Joyce, James, 1882-1941 1922
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The sea had fallen below the line of seawrack on the shallow side of the breakwater and already the tide was running out fast along the foreshore.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man Joyce, James, 1882-1941 1922
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The gang made forays into the gardens of old maids or went down to the castle and fought a battle on the shaggy weed-grown rocks, coming home after it weary stragglers with the stale odours of the foreshore in their nostrils and the rank oils of the seawrack upon their hands and in their hair.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man Joyce, James, 1882-1941 1922
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Signatures of all things I am here to read, seaspawn and seawrack, the nearing tide, that rusty boot.
Ulysses James Joyce 1911
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The sea had fallen below the line of seawrack on the shallow side of the breakwater and already the tide was running out fast along the foreshore.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man James Joyce 1911
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