shoal

• As for the shoal, they scattered in flashing rainbow-tinted disarray at his approach He was master of his surroundings, but there came a time when tadpoles palled upon him. —  "Wee Tim'rous Beasties" Studies of Animal life and Character
• The Telemaque shoal, which is supposed to exist somewhere to the southward of the Cape, but whose situation has never been ascertained, had just before been the subject of their conversation. —  The King's Own
• This shoal is a great bank of gravel and a fine clay-like detritus, the beds of which lie alternately, the thickness of each varying in different parts. —  El Kab
• It may be, then, as Professor Sayce first suggested, that the original temple stood on the northern part of the shoal which is now washed away; this idea is confirmed by our finding in the stream bed opposite the present temple the early table of offerings shown in PL. IV, 1, with many more small fragments of inscription on pieces of sandstone. —  El Kab
• "I have found where the shoal is now, and I know where to find deeper water.--Keep her going astern, Mr. Vapoor A boat from the fort, sir," reported a messenger, who had been sent aft by the second officer on the forecastle That looks like an inquiry into our business here," added the owner Now we are all right," said the commander, who was watching the position of the vessel very carefully. —  Taken by the Enemy

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