The tide was running over the shallowswith a ripple that splashed perilously high about the side of the deeply loaded canoe, and now and then whirling eddies drove them off their course.
The strait seemed narrow and he fancied that it would be further contracted by shallows now that the tide was getting low, while it appeared very probable that if they saw the schooner her crew would see them.
After that he glanced back toward the shallows and saw that other birds had appeared.
We have ventured unwittingly from the safe shallows into the great tumult of life and destiny, and it will bear us where it wills.
The little Viennese stared hard at her, and a sudden crinkle of amusement darted across the bright shallows of her eyes.
On that day I had laid my plans for fishing the warm shallows where the small fry, swarming in early spring, attract the great lean fish which have lain benumbed all winter under their crystal roof of ice.
The boatmen had dropped their oars and taken to their poles once more; the tall reeds rustled as our scow drove its square nose into the shallows and grounded with a grating jar.
Now the burn was quiet, running in long shining shallows and falling over little rocks into deep brown pools where the trout darted.
AMONG the shallows where the sand Is golden and the waves are small, I love to lie, and to my hand How many little treasures fall!
He watched some young colonists wade through the pool to drive fish into the shallows where they could pin them, with their legs, catch them with their hands.
In the shallows of the river one of the men had caught a foot long fish and was holding it up in his hands.
At noon the golden flocks descend below, Leaving the scented herbage of the hill, And where the shelving banks to shallows fall, Drink at the rippling water one and all, Nor back return till they have drawn their fill.
It was low tide, and on some of the shallows the foam showed white as snow in the sunlight that was now, for the first time that day, breaking from behind the clouds.
Here the mist had temporarily dissolved, and in the moonlight he could see water gushing forth like an arch of lace and the long bramble-sprays combing the shallows below.
The callapos grounded on the shallows at the foot of the bank, the old Cholo workmen swarmed around the new comers and waded ashore with the new freight.
The Leccos and the Cholo workmen were still splashing through the muddy shallows from the grounded callapos packing the freight for the camp when Agamemnon announced himself as cook.
Also there was champagne and whiskey and pisco and cañassa and gin cocktails again until in final triumph a little beer--everything lukewarm or tepid from the shallows of the tropical brook.
Mother Nature seems to have been very fond of crabs--she has made them after so many different patterns and scattered them all over the world; in the deep sea, along the shallows of its shores, and on land.
There is a tide in the affairs of men Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune; Omitted, all the voyage of their life Is bound in shallows and in miseries.
The talus shallows the water for a few hundred feet, and descending streams build small deltas.
These shallows edge the intense blue of the depths with exquisite lighter tints which tend to green.
At any rate no mollifying word drifted down from their heights of experience to our shallows of self-consciousness.
On either side the woods blazed like the ranked Cherubim, host on host; great shoals of fiery leaves lay in the shallows of the burying ground.
On this very lovely Broad, we found we had much better stick to the channels, which were wide enough, and explore the shallows in the jolly.
The Broad is largely affected by the tide, which sometimes leaves its shallows exposed.
He chanced to be over in the shallows near the grassy shore, when he saw, at the upper end of the pool, a long, dark body slip noiselessly into the water.
In the bright shallows over against the other shore, the scurrying shoals of pin-fish played safely in the sun.
There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which taken at the flood leads on to fortune, Omitted, all the voyage of their life Is bound in shallows and miseries.
Shallows and miseries are Hampstead and the school, and the full sea is the chance you are giving me.
I shall never forget the girl who helped me out of my shallows and miseries and set me afloat on my full sea.
The great extent of shallows on both sides of the island, with the known physical changes, would almost justify the belief that these sands and this island once formed part of the main-land of New England.
While I was at Nantucket, a school of blackfish were good enough to come into the shallows not far from the harbor, and stupid enough to permit themselves to be taken.
Thousands could thus be taken by hand at low tide, while they were making their way over the shallows among the stones.
I shudder and shudder At her bright light: I fear, I fear, That she her fixt course follows So still and white Through deeps and shallows With never a tremor: Naught shall disturb her.
See, see the patient moon; How she her course keeps Through cloudy shallows and across black deeps, Now gone, now shines soon.
How then Should wry eels in the pebbled shallows ken Lightning coming?
Beyond the surf, the shallows boiled whitely where the Scoop fought for traction to draw its grounded bulk into the water.
The Scoop, he saw, and only half believed it, had wallowed into the shallows alongside his dock.
A great many, when there remained no more space to run, advancing into the water through the first shallowsof the lake, plunge in, as far as they could stand above it with their heads and shoulders.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "shallows" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
