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.

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