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1. Harry returned to Clive House, fetched his angling gear and found a comfortable shoal in the Arrow river to wet his line
2. It was a very dangerous shoal
3. Shelley moved around the outside edge of the large water tank, trying to get a good angle with the video camera to record the shoal of fish swimming vigorously in the pumped flow of icy cold water
4. “This is wonderful,” Sheena said watching a shoal of fish pass by
5. Captain Hobaugh favored the shoal theory
6. The history of cooperation between the two naval services facilitated the arming of Coast Guard cutters with Navy technology, including guns, fire-control, missile defense, refueling systems, and updated communications equipment (Kelley, “The Shoal Waters
7. Navy ships and bases need enhanced port security (Kelley, “The Shoal Waters
8. Navy systems, functions and technology, and federal and local law enforcement (Roden, “The Shoal Waters of Homeland Security,” Proceedings, July 2002, pp
9. (USCG) “The Shoal Waters of Homeland Security
10. The Long Tail Point Lighthouse (1848) was built on a sandy shoal that extended out into Green Bay
11. Wrasse made a science of fishing, reading copiously about the behavioural ecology of the fish, shoal dispersal models, mist currents, feeding patterns and just about everything fish-related
12. Blinded by the blizzard of seeds she was forced to stay still until the shoal of spores dissipated sufficiently
13. At 20 meters, it dawned on the awestruck crew that the threat was no more than an enormous shoal of fish
14. Part of it ran under the main road, and there was always a shoal of trout to be seen in the town duck pond, as it was known, and the inevitable ducks looking for their share of the bread the visitors brought with them
15. He was standing in shoal water, gradually getting used to the water temperature
16. in a watered silvery shoal
17. He heard it between breaths and traced it to a shoal of parrot fish that were chewing up dead coral with their bird-like beaks
18. a shoal of tiny fish and was heading towards the surface
19. schools (shoal) of 6 or more
20. (shoal) and good water conditions
21. David had secured a silver diamond studded tiara into place, and she finished off her look with emerald-coloured velvet gloves, a gorgeous aquamarine shoal, and a pink rose pinned to her dress
22. A shoal of tiny blue fish parted gracefully around her
23. water smell wafted off the face of the lake and I thrilled in watching a shoal of fresh water
24. As Rincewind stared a small shoal of silver fish flashed across its chest
25. Our boat cruised along a few miles away from that daunting shoal where Captain Cook's ships wellnigh miscarried on June 10, 1770
26. This gulfweed, the swimming gulfweed or berry carrier, is the chief substance making up this immense shoal
27. It announces the presence of a pack, or shoal, of ice
28. Well, then, the good Fairy, as soon as she saw that I was in danger of drowning, sent immediately an immense shoal of fish, who, believing me really to be a little dead donkey, began to eat me
29. Admittedly, the passage was seventy miles wide at its narrowest point, but the sky was covered in clouds, there was no moon, the deepwater channel was far narrower than that, he had no local pilot, and there was always the odd shoal, mudbank, or unbuoyed rock
30. They’d cleared the southern end of Crescent Shoal almost four hours ago, and the wind which had defeated his drive up the Hahskyn was perfectly suited to his present heading
31. There was no point; Thunderer was firmly aground, listing perhaps three degrees to larboard, on a shoal which appeared on none of their charts
32. That meant the next flood tide was unlikely to float them neatly off the shoal
33. It had backed steadily around from the easterly which had driven them onto the shoal
34. The grounded Charisian vessel was still at least two thousand yards distant, and the closest enemy schooner was a thousand yards farther away from it than Lance, on the far side of the shoal
35. Even if that hadn’t been true, the Charisian was on the far side of Shingle Shoal
36. At the moment, they were just passing Fort Tyshau at the southern end of the Cape Yula Shoal
37. The midmorning sun was climbing towards noon as HMS Destiny and the rest of her squadron made their way close-hauled on the larboard tack between Hardship Shoal and Hog Island
38. The wind was out of the north-northwest, which would have been dead foul for an attempt to use Snake Channel, farther to the south, but once they rounded the tip of the shoal and made the turn into North Channel they could make the anchorage with a leading wind—what was often called a “soldier’s wind”—from just abaft the beam
39. But for the shoal you encountered, the Dohlaran galleys would never have had the opportunity to engage you, and I’m strongly of the opinion that with both Thunderer and Dreadnought you and Captain Haigyl would have cut your way out through the Dohlarans with far lighter losses
40. He had never lost a boat or even been forced to dump creek, shoal and rock of the Carolina coast near that port, and he was equally at home
41. A FEW minutes later Tom was in the shoal water of the bar, wading toward the Illinois shore
42. After breakfast they went whooping and prancing out on the bar, and chased each other round and round, shedding clothes as they went, until they were naked, and then continued the frolic far away up the shoal water of the bar, against the stiff current, which latter tripped their legs from under them from time to time and greatly increased the fun
43. During periods of elevation the area of the land and of the adjoining shoal parts of the sea will be increased and new stations will often be formed—all circumstances favourable, as previously explained, for the formation of new varieties and species; but during such periods there will generally be a blank in the geological record
44. Cape becomes bar, and plain shoal, and valley and gorge deep water and channel
45. Now as the Cornish boats came to the shoal of the further bank, Iseult said to the knights:
46. One day she saw spouts, lowered her boats, and gave chase to a shoal of sperm whales
47. Ere long, several of the whales were wounded; when, suddenly, a very large whale escaping from the boats, issued from the shoal, and bore directly down upon the ship
48. He came directly from the shoal which we had just before entered, and in which we had struck three of his companions, as if fired with revenge for their sufferings
49. As is customary in those cases, the boats at once separated, each making for some one lone whale on the outskirts of the shoal
50. For as the swift monster drags you deeper and deeper into the frantic shoal, you bid adieu to circumspect life and only exist in a delirious throb
1. The home was shoaled with what appeared
2. looks, as we shoaled the water towards the shore, showed me the staff of
3. For my part, who had not with the calmest patience stood in the water all this time, to view this warm action, I leaned tenderly on my gallant, and at the close of it, seemed to ask him with my eyes, what he thought of it; but he, more eager to satisfy me by his actions than by words or looks, as we shoaled the water towards the shore, showed me the staff of love so intensely set up, that had not even charity, beginning at home in this case, urged me to our mutual relief, it would have been cruel indeed to have suffered the youth to burst with straining, when the remedy was so obvious and so near at hand
1. The compact round body of its root expands into two broad, firm, flat palms or flukes, gradually shoaling away to less than an inch in thickness
1. Though Father didn’t know this sea, its currents or its shoals, he was able to navigate unerringly past hundreds of islands
2. Stand by, for our ship of state is rapidly approaching the shoals of bankruptcy and insolvency, with the most calamitous consequences imaginable
3. There was a strong northward flowing current off the east coast, and some dangerous shoals that had not been fully mapped
4. rotating flows that whirled around the many hidden shoals and
5. "It is thus: They reward the flutterers for leading the way to shoals of fish
6. Surrounded by shoals an’ reefs miles wide, so ships can’t get in there without usin’ magic
7. The shoals of mackerel had just started their spring runs into the bay, chasing and trapping the whitebait in the shallow water just off the shore
8. Normal shoals are too thin in numbers to have any effect
9. They need to be in small schools (shoals) of 6 or more and are a very
10. Vickerton, the postmistress's son, get to a paperhanger's and order him and his men to come out in shoals to Symford the next morning at daybreak, making the paperhanger vow, who had never seen them, that the cottages should be done by nightfall
11. ” The river teemed with them and shoals swam up and down the edge, lazily seeking food and flashing their scaly sides through the surface
12. Shoals of small fry swarmed around the hulk and as Wan Lung approached he could see that some skittered urgently through the water inside the vehicle as well, having swum in through the windows that were open, or at least those he could see that were not closed
13. The paddleboats had ‘specs’ or watches on the bow to keep an eye out for shoals and sandbars
14. He had been a meatman, one of the caste which earned a perilous living in large, sail-powered land yachts that ventured far out to land and hunted the shoals of deer and buffalo that abounded in the stormhaunted continents
15. Shoals of them every evening poured out of offices
16. Since their names were coupled, though, since he was her declared favourite, where was the particular necessity to proclaim it to the rank and file from the housetops, the fact, namely, that he had shared her bedroom which came out in the witnessbox on oath when a thrill went through the packed court literally electrifying everybody in the shape of witnesses swearing to having witnessed him on such and such a particular date in the act of scrambling out of an upstairs apartment with the assistance of a ladder in night apparel, having gained admittance in the same fashion, a fact the weeklies, addicted to the lubric a little, simply coined shoals of money out of
17. Beneath your world of skies and faces and buildings exists a rawer and older world, a place where surface planes disintegrate and sounds ribbon in shoals through the air
18. Shoals of clouds swim through the sky
19. The information they had suggested there were nasty shoals around Symov, and the Harchongians had removed the navigation buoys when the Imperial Charisian Navy retook Claw Island from the Dohlarans
20. Shot, shells, and cold steel he could deal with; rocks and shoals were something else entirely
21. They were barely eighteen miles across at their northeastern end, and the southern side of the passage was lined with treacherous shoals and shallows
22. The last thing he’d have done would have been to deliberately accept the lee gauge, where the enemy would be free to sail down upon him, especially when he was pinned against a coast as dotted with shoals and mudbanks as the southern side of the Kaudzhu Narrows
23. He’d moved a little farther west once night fell because the shoals along the Duchy of Malikai’s coast stretched a bit farther out to sea, squeezing the Narrows down to little more than a hundred and thirty miles
24. And then suddenly, between the black shoals of office buildings: the light
25. Long slopes ran swiftly down to where the river spread in stony shoals between high grassy terraces
26. “I’d be careful, Lads,” says Bonny, “’twas not far from there that Blackbeard himself was fell’d in the shallow Shoals of Ocacock Inlet…
27. It is nice at high water, but when the tide is out it shoals away to nothing, and there is merely the stream of the Esk, running between banks of sand, with rocks here and there
28. There is sometimes a chamber which does not burn in the midst of a conflagration, and in the midst of raging seas, beyond a promontory or at the extremity of a blind alley of shoals, a tranquil nook
29. It is the responsibility of the watch to look out for shipping, aircraft, signs of land—and for seaweed, shoals of fish, birds, wreckage
30. Very fast, darting, often in shoals, usually dangerous only when there is blood in the water
31. I call him thus, because he always swims in hilarious shoals, which upon the broad sea keep tossing themselves to heaven like caps in a Fourth-of-July crowd
32. But neither great Washington, nor Napoleon, nor Nelson, will answer a single hail from below, however madly invoked to befriend by their counsels the distracted decks upon which they gaze; however it may be surmised, that their spirits penetrate through the thick haze of the future, and descry what shoals and what rocks must be shunned
33. " Perhaps they were; or perhaps there might have been shoals of them in the far horizon; but lulled into such an opium-like listlessness of vacant, unconscious reverie is this absent-minded youth by the blending cadence of waves with thoughts, that at last he loses his identity; takes the mystic ocean at his feet for the visible image of that deep, blue, bottomless soul, pervading mankind and nature; and every strange, half-seen, gliding, beautiful thing that eludes him; every dimly-discovered, uprising fin of some undiscernible form, seems to him the embodiment of those elusive thoughts that only people the soul by continually flitting through it
34. First: The mariner, when drawing nigh the coasts of foreign lands, if by night he hear the roar of breakers, starts to vigilance, and feels just enough of trepidation to sharpen all his faculties; but under precisely similar circumstances, let him be called from his hammock to view his ship sailing through a midnight sea of milky whiteness—as if from encircling headlands shoals of combed white bears were swimming round him, then he feels a silent, superstitious dread; the shrouded phantom of the whitened waters is horrible to him as a real ghost; in vain the lead assures him he is still off soundings; heart and helm they both go down; he never rests till blue water is under him again
35. At that moment the two wakes were fairly crossed, and instantly, then, in accordance with their singular ways, shoals of small harmless fish, that for some days before had been placidly swimming by our side, darted away with what seemed shuddering fins, and ranged themselves fore and aft with the stranger's flanks
36. “We know all about that! You’ve only to whistle and they come up in shoals!” he continued, almost angrily
37. That in the month of February, 1794, William Scott, James Pettigrew, and John Pettigrew, of South Carolina, left that State, with a view of establishing themselves in the present Mississippi Territory, and took with them twenty-one negro slaves, with goods and chattels to the value of more than one thousand dollars; that they proceeded in safety on their journey as far as the Muscle Shoals, on the river Tennessee, where they were attacked, about the 9th of June, 1794, by a party of Cherokee Indians, who put to death all the white people of the family, and took possession of and carried away the negroes and other property
38. Resolved, That the prayer of the petitioner is reasonable, and that the President of the United States be authorized and requested to treat, by such commissioner as he shall appoint, for the delivery to the rightful owners of the slaves and their increase taken from William Scott, James Pettigrew, and John Pettigrew, on or about the 9th of June, 1794, by a party of the Cherokee nation of Indians, at or near the Muscle Shoals, on the river Tennessee, upon such equitable conditions as to him shall appear just and reasonable
39. And suppose there was a woman”—with swift jealousy Nancy remembered the engagement Philip had broken in order to dine with her that evening—“not a very young woman, who had shoals of money, as you say, who rouged a little, and helped nature along a little in several ways, and did a number of other things that you and I don’t exactly like, but who at heart was a very good sort—would you advise this man to marry her?”
40. But shoals, or shallows, are frequent, and are formed by beds of rounded sandstone, spread out into a broad base, over which the water often rushes with no small violence and noise
41. Approaching some of the icebergs, in April 1805, on the shoals of Newfoundland, we were rendered very sensible of the vicinity of such dangerous neighbours, by the great chill in the air, long before they were visible; and when we had passed them, the weather again grew milder
42. , that the population of Africa has been drained, to groan out a wretched existence in the West India colonies, to prop up this naval and commercial power, or that the remotest corners of every sea have been visited with the scourge of blood and desolation for the same purpose? On general principles, does not past experience afford sufficient warning to these States to avoid those shoals on which so many nations have been wrecked?
43. –lower temperature on shoals and shores due to the submarine current, 353
44. lower temperature on shoals and shores, due to the submarine current, 353