water-worn

Down all its length the stiff waves stood in serried rows, and its crevices and water-worn caverns were a-bellow with unseen strife.

CHAPTER 25 2010

Saxon laughed her joy and held on close to his heels, splashing through pools, crawling hand and foot up the slippery faces of water-worn rocks, and worming under trunks of old fallen trees.

CHAPTER XXII 2010

The coast itself is a collection of water-worn escarpments, creating an endless succession of individual coves and bays.

The Alluring Remoteness of Karpathos 2010

These periodic rivers are dry most of the year, but torrents flow down the water-worn gullies after heavy winter rainstorms in the hills.

Nile Delta flooded savanna 2008

Fine souls keep themselves reserved, weak and tender natures succumb; the rest are cobblestones which hold the social organ in its place, water-worn and rounded by the tide, but never worn-out.

A Marriage Contract 2007

At the cost of wetting his feet, he went to sit down under the water-worn granite shelf crowned by a thick hedge of thorny acacia, by the side of which ran a long lime avenue in the

Albert Savarus 2007

On the top is a quantity of water-worn quartz, cemented into large masses.

The Journals of John McDouall Stuart 2007

At the cost of wetting his feet, he went to sit down under the water-worn granite shelf crowned by a thick hedge of thorny acacia, by the side of which ran a long lime avenue in the

Albert Savarus 2007

Supposing that those who were reported to have perished in this cave had fallen over some precipice, we went well provided with lights, ladder, lines, &c.; but it turned out to be only an open cave, with an entrance about ten feet square, which contracts into two water-worn branches, ending in round orifices through which the water once flowed.

Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa 2004

The matrix is rust of iron (or hydrous peroxide of iron and hematite), and in it are imbedded water-worn pebbles of sandstone and quartz.

Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa 2004