shallows

• “As the thaw begins, look for open water between ice sheets and the shoreline, particularly in shallows adjacent to deep water.”

  The Nine Best Places to Fish a Pond During Ice-Out

• “If that were so, there would be no need to keep its constantly moving location a secret or to hold it only when the moon is down, during that time some call the shallows of night.”

  beneath an opal moon

• “The swan floats lonely with her brood in shallows cool,”

  The Four Winds of Eirinn

• “The origin of the shallows is a combination of ongoing aeolian transport from the desert on top of alluvium from relict estuaries which nourishes the 3,100 ha of mangrove swamp.”

  Banc d'Arguin National Park, Mauritania

• “The coastal waters around Otaria itself were called the shallows, and Director Rillu Veza lived there on the coast in an area called Breaker Bay.”

  Chainer's Torment

• “In the deep channels were the Infantry Landing Ships, cross-Channel steamers and small liners with landing craft hanging on their davits; in the shallows were the LCTs loaded with vehicles and tanks and men, moving off towards the eastern entrance of Spithead in great flotillas, shepherded by their MLs.”

  The Breaking Wave

• “At the cañon bottom was water and across the shallows were the bedding-grounds and the camp.”

  The Ridin' Kid from Powder River

• “I know a river whose waters run asleep, run, run ever, singing in the shallows, dumb in the hollows sleeping so deep; and all the swallows that dip their feathers in the hollows or in the shallows are the merriest swallows of all!”

  At the Back of the North Wind

• “This procession was a walk with stooping heads, bullets raining in through the loopholes, and frantic runs along ditches beside hedges (just like the "shallows" at Carlton).”

  Letters of Lt.-Col. George Brenton Laurie (commanding 1st Battn. Royal Irish Rifles) Dated November 4th, 1914-March 11th, 1915

• “With three cat-folk on the prowl, locating and catching the fishlike denizens of the shallows was a problem soon solved.”

  Kingdoms of Light

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