"Shingly" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... of some beast that scorned concealment, and presently there emerged into the opening a huge red buffalo, shaggy of hide, ferocious of aspect, and with a pair of enormous, deep-curving horns. He clattered down the narrow, shingly, boulder-strewn bed of the river—so noisily that the monkeys fled precipitately, with loud shrieks of alarm—and stood fully revealed in a small patch of brilliantly white moonlight, tossing his head, and sniffing the air ...
— With Airship and Submarine - A Tale of Adventure • Harry Collingwood
... a hundred yards of the low shingly beach when, to our astonishment, the roar of artillery from the island greeted our ears, and at the same instant half a dozen round-shot came flying about our ears. Fortunately no damage was done beyond the smashing of a couple of oars and the incontinent precipitation ...
— The Congo Rovers - A Story of the Slave Squadron • Harry Collingwood
... and stupefaction!—I was treading a hard, dusty, shingly road of granite. The stream on which I ...
— A Journey to the Centre of the Earth • Jules Verne
... was washing into innumerable rocky fissures with a hollow booming sound. The cliff-line was broken into all sorts of bold forms,—buttresses and parapets and sharp inclines, with here and there a shallow cave or a bit of shingly beach. Every moment the color of the water seemed to change, and the soft duns and purples of the horizon line to grow more intense. Candace had no eyes but for the sea. She scarcely noticed the ...
— A Little Country Girl • Susan Coolidge |
