There was a sudden splash, a growl, a scrambling sound in the shallow water and Horatio's head appeared above the bank.
The Bear stumbled and, half falling, stepped into one of the big shallow wooden vessels.
At the time of the restoration, in making certain necessary excavations, large numbers of human bones in extremely shallow graves were discovered all over the interior of the Church.
This city stands at the head of the broad, shallow bay of Mobile, thirty miles from the Gulf.
The water was so shallow that the keels of the ships would sometimes stick in the mud, and then it was with the greatest of difficulty that they could be hauled off.
With their small boats the robbers would run into the shallow bays and creeks, where no other vessels could follow them; and so they had grown bolder and bolder every year.
Sometimes the Essex would stop at an island, and the crew would go on shore to kill seals; sometimes they would anchor in shallow bays and fish for cod.
Little had been left him beyond his shallow bath, the drawers under the bunk, a bookcase containing the King's Regulations and Admiralty Instructions, the Addenda thereto, and a washstand.
We passed quickly across the Alma, which in some places we found so shallow that many of us scarcely wetted our feet.
When a ship gets in shallow water, she can anchor; but in storms the waves are so high, and the wind so strong, that she may be torn from her anchors and driven ashore.
At first she would slip off the nest for a few minutes every day, very stealthily, to feed and stretch and take a noiseless dip in the shallow water among the reeds; but as time went on she left the eggs only once in two days.
The nest was a mereshallow pile of dead leaves and twigs and dry sedges, scraped carelessly together.
He had dived straight into the shallow grave of all the gulls he had killed.
I put the ship in a shallow climb and held it to six thousand feet.
This was the plan:--A shallow pit was scooped out in the ground, and across it were laid green saplings, parallel to each other.
Francois, "what a shallow Indian he must have been to be so easily outwitted!
The shallow ones they forded, while those that were too deep for fording, they swam over upon their horses.
In about an hour they arrived at a large encampment upon the bank of a broad shallow river.
The evening of the second day we camped in a long wadi, or shallow valley, full of mimosa trees, where our camels were hobbled and allowed to graze.
The former were narrow, shallow twisting ditches between piles of loose earth and rotting bodies.
It lay in the bottom of a rocky gorge, a shallow basin at the foot of what was a small waterfall during the winter rains.
A girl was struggling in the shallow but swift water.
It is one of the glaring sarcasms of life to see with what complacency a shallow woman skims the surface of tragedy and thinks that she has sounded the depths.
Eddie, being small and woods-broken could work his way through pretty well, but after a few discouragements I decided to wade down the brook and through the shallow pond above the dam.
The pond that had seemed small and shallow by daylight was big enough and deep enough now.
The pools were pretty small affairs and the rapids long, shallow and very ragged.
The lake was shallow near the shore which meant a fearful period of wading before taking the baptismal plunge that would restore one's general equilibrium.
Is not a shallow writer frequently forgotten in a single Fair?
The young were present in quiet, shallow water over mud bottom at the lower end of a gravel bar.
The greatest concentrations occurred in mouths of creeks during times of high water; occasionally, large numbers were taken in a shallowbackwater near the head of a riffle at the middle Neosho station.
Extensive seining along a gravel bar at the lower Neosho station indicated that the young are highly selective for quiet, shallow water with mud bottom.
This area includes a shallow riffle at both upstream and downstream ends of a pool 73 feet long and approximately one foot in average depth (Pl.
Seemingly the species had moved off shallow riffles into areas not sampled effectively by seining.
On several occasions in the summer of 1959, buffalo were seen in shallow parts of long, rubble riffles, with the dorsal or caudal fins protruding above the surface.
Young-of-the-year and adults were most common in shallow backwater.
It was ivory, and it gave a little shallow click on the table and that, slight as it was, made her nerves jump.
He will then tear along through the woods in the direction of the call, and perhaps splash out with a great noise into the shallow water where he expects to find a mate answering his amorous advances.
When the canoe emerged from the stream into the pond the hunter and guide were surprised enough to see, at the edge, in shallow water, a large bull moose.
Just at sunset he was called out from across a pond, and strolled with that majestic woodland swagger through the shallow water.
The water, being shallow at this point, favored the men and prevented a possible catastrophe.
I turned from the shallow trivialities of the land and found consolation in the strength of your stately solitudes!
It was a shallow tray with a bottom made of a network of wires.
Modern processes of reproducing pictures give plates for printing, many of which are made up of very fine lines placed very closely together and having very shallow depressions between them.
The paper-making machine consists primarily of an endless roll of wire screen, similar to that forming the bottom of the shallow tray used in making paper by hand.
He will judge not by the hearing of the ear, nor the seeing of the eye, as the shallow cruel world judges, but He will judge righteous judgment.
She was conscious of a feeling of sorrow for the helpless woman, of compassion for her empty, shallow life, the fruit of an empty, shallow heart.
Even the thin clusters of dates upon the few palms that eked out a stunted existence in a shallow depression of the Rock were acrid, shrivelled, and wholly unfit for food.
The creek, as the captain had intimated, presently expanded into a lagoon fully a quarter of a mile wide, and so shallow in parts that the canoe almost touched the amber-coloured sands over which it passed.
Shallow minds have a decided propensity to fall into the latter error.
So farre, so fast the eygre drave, The heart had hardly time to beat Before a shallow seething wave Sobb'd in the grasses at oure feet: The feet had hardly time to flee Before it brake against the knee, And all the world was in the sea.
The captain ran the skiff on a shallow bank and helped Dick with the line until sixteen feet of fierceness lay stranded on the bank.
Then to-morrow we will take him down to that big bay and make a nursery for him in a shallow little cove that I saw there.
Only three hours later, as Johnny was sculling over a shallow bank, he stopped work and began to thump the bottom with his oar.
There was no more trouble for the big boat, which a minute later was headed down the broad but shallow river, at half speed, while Dick picked up the skiff with its alligator passenger who slowly opened one eye when spoken to.
So again when night came there was no dry land for a camp and the bed of branches was built up in the shallow water.
For the little creek ended in a round shallow pond, a hundred yards across and entirely shut in by thick bushes.
In the shallow places mullet leaped wildly as the rays of the bull's-eye lantern fell on them, while porpoises sniffed and tarpon splashed in their light.
At some places the river narrowed into deep creeks and at others broadened out into wide, shallow bays, where the boys were puzzled to find the inlet they wanted.
Every few minutes the long eel-grass of the shallow bay choked the propeller of the motor-boat.
They found shallow water where for long distances they had to paddle slowly to avoid little pillars of coral rock that came close to the surface and endangered their fragile canoe.
The sea-cow carried the skiff around keys, through deep channels, over shallow banks and under bushes that projected from the shore, until the animal was fairly tired out.
The other river is pretty shallow and gets badly choked up at this season.
They had constructed what looked like a very shallow baby-cradle on rockers into which they poured their earth and water.
The latter tumbled right out of the boat on his back in the shallow water.
We scrambled rather wearily, but with a dogged determination, out of ourshallow hole.
These were like shallow lakes, in which sometimes grew clumps of grasses.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "shallow" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
