surf-battered

It was farewell, I knew; for what chance had creatures so feeble as we to win alive over those surf-battered rocks to the higher rocks beyond?

Chapter 19 2010

And still my fishermen crew eyed the surf-battered shore and did nothing.

SMALL-BOAT SAILING 2010

In the afternoon Jim Hazard and Hall dived into the breakers and swam to the outlying rocks, routing the protesting sea-lions and taking possession of their surf-battered stronghold.

CHAPTER VIII 2010

It was farewell, I knew; for what chance had creatures so feeble as we to win alive over those surf-battered rocks to the higher rocks beyond?

Chapter 19 2010

By all the rules of the game the referee should have broken it, but he did not, and Danny clung on like a surf-battered barnacle and moment by moment recuperated.

The Mexican 2010

While the region's south coast is famed for its sheltered coves and gently sloping strands, the western beaches can be rough and windswept with broad swathes of surf-battered sand wedged between precipitous black cliffs.

Portugal's Alluring Hideaways 2010

By all the rules of the game the referee should have broken it, but he did not, and Danny clung on like a surf-battered barnacle and moment by moment recuperated.

THE MEXICAN 1993

And still the fishermen eyed the surf-battered shore and did nothing.

Jack London: A War Correspondent 1979

I had never seen this happen before, even at moments when a false turn of the wrist meant death on a surf-battered bank.

The Riddle of the Sands Childers, Erskine, 1870-1922 1955

And still my fishermen crew eyed the surf-battered shore and did nothing.

Small-Boat Sailing 1917