It was a scanter andshallower stream, however, than when he left it, for now the long heats of the summer had shrunken all the watercourses.
In theshallower water along the edges of the lake there was always a faint confusion of small sounds.
They could touch the bottom with their poles all the way round Serendib, but as before, in crossing to New Formosa, had to give a stronger push on the edge of the deep channel, to carry them over to the shallower water.
As the waters of the New Sea receded the shallower upper, or southern end, became partly dry.
Then it was that the steam-tugs took up their positions, and towed the ill-fated craft towards shallower water, till she was left on a bank under the Culver cliff, with one side and her upper deck above the water at low tide.
It was against us that they had swallowed their pint o' water by this time, and were nae sae buoyant; it was for us that the water was shallower noo, maybe not more than twa feet ower head.
As soon as Venn found his feet dragging over the pebbles of the shallower part below he secured his footing and waded towards the brink.
All the shallower ponds had decreased to a vaporous mud amid which the maggoty shapes of innumerable obscure creatures could be indistinctly seen, heaving and wallowing with enjoyment.
Now, as has been seen, less than one-fourth the whole volume pours down the American channel; and as this is much shallower than the main body of water, it is here that any diminished flow will be first felt.
If shallower baskets of the same dimensions, but with their bottoms cut off or punched out, are placed inside these conical ones, the two together make capital snare baskets for crabs and fish.
There is another shallower volcanic crater to the north of it.
She was also lifted by each wave and hammered over the sand into shallower water, so that the drenched and buffeted lifeboatmen had to lift anchor and follow the drifting vessel in the lifeboat, and again drop anchor and veer down as before.
It was on the shallower northern part of the Goodwins that the Norwegian brig struck in a north-easterly gale.
At the termination of a suicidal cut-throat the skin is the last structure divided, the wound being shallower as it reaches its termination; the wounds often show parallelism.
The whole scene, with its extravagant poetic beauties and high-pitched rhetoric, leaves a painful impression of unreality, not in the shallower but in the deepest sense of that word.
If such were broached in his presence he dismissed them with one strong, convincing sentence, and adroitly turned the current of conversation into a shallower channel.
The effect of this is to incline men to prefer theshallower formations, even in the attack.
Illustration: Shallower Formation: Twelve Brigades in the First Line, and Six in the Second Line.
Still the bold projecting cornices, the deeper and shallower niches resembling windows, have the merit of securing broken lights and shadows under the strong vertical illumination, all of which are eminently picturesque.
He struggled and swayed, but he struggled successfully, and finally reached the shallower water at the other side.
Instead, it presently lay inert and lifeless in the shallower part of the stream, whence Jim, springing out of the canoe, dragged the heavy body ashore and began at once to skin it, assisted by Dave.
It was slow work, and the tidal current was merciless, but at last they reached shallower water where Billy could touch bottom.
The breathing becomes shallower and shallower, the lips become first blue, then ashy pale, and the little torch of life goes out with a flicker.
Into the shallower one he throws his excreta, while upon the surface of the ground he flings abroad his household waste from the back stoop.
At length sober common sense seemed to have resumed its sway, and they concluded that what they had so long heard must be true, and resolved to ford the shallower stream.
But wherever it makes a sudden bend it isshallower and swifter, and asserts its title to be called a river.
In some of the wider and shallower ponds are countless thousands of small mullet, each about three or four inches in length, and swimming closely together in separated but compact battalions.
Ice sometimes forms in theshallower bays, but seldom lasts.
Bidding farewell to the Island of the Sun, we sailed southward through the Straits of Tiquina, only half a mile wide, which connect the principal lake with the shallower gulf at its southeastern end, called the Lake of Vinamarca.
When a deeper well is sunk, a shallower one is pretty sure to give out.
I have seen fly-fishing for pike practised with success here, and I firmly believe that on some of the shallower Broads it would be very deadly.
For deep swift waters, a large pelican or swan quill, for slower and shallower waters a much smaller one.
In March or April shallower waters should be tried.
The brain is narrower and shallower than that of the genus Lemur, and presents no specially close resemblance to the same organ in the Indrisinae or the Lorisinae.
The brain of the Galagos is narrower and shallowerthan that in the Lemurinae.
In the cooler regions it has a sufficiency of moisture, and can content itself with a shallower soil.
On the other hand, the fresh water, being the lighter, floats at the top and enables the oysters to live in the shallower parts, by maintaining the required 3 per cent.
In the midst of this central boss are two deep craters, one being about 10 miles in diameter, and a number of shallower depressions.
Shallower but more numerous and regular features of the same class radiate towards the N.
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