This opening is something like the grain shoot of a mill, or a screen for riddling gravel, so steep is the pitch of the ground, and so narrow the shingly ledge at the bottom.
On the strip of shore stood a big wooden hut, partitioned off into small dressing-rooms; and a causeway of flat stones had been made down to the water, to avoid the sharp flints of the shingly beach.
So that the base of Khorassan may be taken to be the tillable portions, over which occur, to a vast extent, the shingly very barren slopes, which every section shows to be nothing but a mass of debris, resting on the mountain rocks.
The city is situated at the termination of one of the shingly slopes, which are universal between the bases of the hills, and the cultivated portion of the valley.
The inclined valleys are very shingly and bouldery.
The road tolerable, over gravelly or shingly ground: it was at first level, until we reached a mountain gorge, when it became undulated.
At the mouth, the pass opens out into a good breadth, with an even, small, shingly bottom.
Sometimes it is wholly lost in foliage, except for a silvery gleam among the leaves; sometimes it comes out into the sunlight, and flows by shingly holms and muddy flats.
It was not that no trace of human habitation, nor of any living creature was to be seen, but that the stony, shingly soil, totally destitute of all vegetation, seemed to deny life to anything.
We were being dragged up on a low shingly shore, and the men--up to their waists in water--were carrying the boat along.
Henceforth our path lay through pleasant places; shady trees, long grass, and frequent pools of water in the shingly beds of the creeks made a welcome change after the awful desolation of the desert.
Supported by his two guides, Bertram easily contrived to slide down the shingly precipice; and on reaching the bottom, crossed the beach and stepped on board a very large twelve-oared boat heavily laden.
He stood upon the summit of a shingly declivity which was slippery from the recent storm, and intersected by numerous channels; so that he was obliged in his descent to catch hold of the bushes to save himself from falling.
The stream, after meandering over a shallow, shingly channel, entered the canon through a vast gate-like gap, between two giant portals.
It was the sound of hoof-strokes on the shingly bed of the canon.
The man and the girl scrambled up a little shingly mound.
A narrow belt of sandy and shingly beach extended along the margin of the river, or, as it might be more appropriately termed, the lake, at least in as far as appearance went.
Here are plenty of shingly beaches for you to choose from, and chalcedonic pebbles are common upon them all.
If you only have patience and perseverance, you are sure to find specimens every time you take a good ramble along a shingly beach that has any likelihood of treasure.
It was just growing dusk when the boats, having cast off from the towing hawsers, pulled into the cove and grounded on its steep shingly beach.
These boats conveyed us to within a mile of the city, when carts, drawn by five horses, met us in the surf and drew us on to the wet, shingly beach.
While she exercised her power the natives knelt around her on the shingly beach in rapturous devotion.
Skirting an ancient moss-grown wall which, for some inscrutable reason, encloses a tract of apparently valueless marshland, we roam across the shingly beach towards a group of isolated buildings.
Than gay Versailles or Windsor's halls, The painted, shingly town-house where The freeman's vote for Freedom falls!
At a certain point the shingly ridge became depressed, opening a natural passage to the glacier.
We shot down a shingly couloir to the Trift, and looking up the glacier the anticipated cascade came into view.
We afterwards wound round a shoulder of the hill, at times upon the moraine of the glacier, and at times upon the adjacent grass slope; then over shingly inclines, covered with the shot rubbish of the heights.
We rounded the shingly shoulder of the mountain to the edge of a snow-field, but before entering upon it I disburthened myself of my strong shooting jacket, leaving it on the mountain-side.
Thence to some loose and shingly rocks, again to the snow, whence a sharp edge led directly up to the top.
