How little did Phoebe herself perceive the shoal past which her self-respect had just safely guided her!
The Berribee boats at once rushed out in a shoal to capture the harmless looking vessel.
One of the prizes, the Alvarado, having grounded on a shoal at the Devil’s Turn, was blown up and left.
He hooked and landed another fine bass from the shoal which had come up with the tide that ran like a millstream off the point, when as he placed the fish in the basket he raised his eyes.
Don't bother me, there's a shoal off the point now, and I shall get some fish.
Caldwell County Organized In pursuance of this action the Saints began to move from Clay County as soon as circumstances would permit, and located on Shoal Creek, in an uninhabited section in the north part of Ray County.
Organization of the Camps While encamped near the Chariton River on the east fork of Shoal Creek, the organization of the camps was reduced to a more systematic order.
It was said that after all perhaps a carp or two and an eel would be all that were found, but, even as the speculative remarks were made, a shoal of small roach flecked the surface, and it was certain that the result could not be nil.
On the thirtieth of October an engagement was fought at Haun's Mill on Shoal Creek, south of Beckenridge.
Hence the brethren in the little settlement on Shoal Creek remained under arms.
Haun's Mill was between ten and twelve miles nearly due east of Far West, on the south bank of Shoal Creek, which takes a meandering course, though in the main flowing east, and finally empties into Grand River.
It was recommended to the attention of the brethren by their influential friends in Clay County, and so the month of October, 1836, found a number of them settling on Shoal Creek.
This took them to the shoal water in about the reefs at the foot of South Haven Island, a protected spot from the north, under the lee, but open to the full sweep of the sea from the south.
We contrived to get the "vantage ground" by going to seaward of her, and by that means drove her into shoal water among the rocks.
Dick was already looking at a shoal of fish ahead flying out of the water, falling back, and rising again, somewhat after the fashion of flying-fish in the Red Sea.
This will block the current between Elliot Island and Calcutta Shoal and divert it into the present 36-foot channel thus making it deeper by its natural force.
Sixth, a jetty from the right shore at (F) about midway between Danes Island and the Second Bar, should be built to the head of the Midstream Shoal so as to cut off the current at the right side of the river.
It was what the fishermen call 'broken water'--a seething produced by a shoal of fish.
It is to be imagined that after this they kept a pretty sharp look-out for 'broken water;' but of course they could not expect to run across a shoal of mackerel every day.
Behind it came a shoal of smaller fry, each of them, however, quite competent to crack a human life.
A pilot was taken on board; for there is a dangerous shoalin the harbour.
In this situation we were extremely well sheltered from the reigning winds, by the sandy isle and its shoals, and by the shoal without them.
The resemblance of the two countries; Bougainville's meeting with the shoal of Diana above sixty leagues from the coast; and the signs he had of land to the S.
Their general method of fishing, I guess, is to lie on the reefs in shoal water, and to strike the fish that may come in their way.
This was on the tail of a shoal which lies a little without the small isle to the N.
This proved another of these low or half-drowned islands, or rather a large coral shoal of about twenty leagues in circuit.
A shoalof sand and rocks, lying on the east side, makes it still narrower.
We ranged the south side of this isle or shoalat the distance of one or two miles from the coral-bank, against which the sea broke in a dreadful surf.
The entrance round the point has a shoal sand-bar, somewhat dangerous, running across it.
One was actually floated away, camel and all, but luckily fetched up on a shoal place lower down, whence it was recovered with slight damage.
A shoal bar, with a very hard bottom, lies between the outer anchorage and the river, and the Nanzing, drawing less than ten feet, was obliged to anchor outside until the rising tide enabled her to get in.
He was therefore led to infer that the interior, to a certain extent, was occupied by a shoal sea, of which the marshes were the borders, and into which the rivers he had been tracing discharged themselves.
In working up St. Vincent's Gulf, you may stand to the eastward in six fathoms, and towards the Troubridge Shoal in nine fathoms.
The scow was on the other side, the water too shoal for the horses to swim, and the bottom, most likely, quicksand.
We had grounded on the sandy shoal of the Dogger, in twenty fathoms of water, and overhead I could see great black shadows sweeping slowly past.
The second line took a wide curve to the west, and crossed right over the center of a shoalmarked "Dogger Bank.
The river was crossed by a rickety little bridge of logs, and exactly below it in the clear, limpid water was a shoal of broad-headed mullets.
Then he was met by a shoal of the fish called harbour pilots.
If the frigate comes hither, we have still our shoal water to trust to; and I think they will scarce cut us out with boats, as if we were a Spanish xebeck.
The fish uses this curious weapon by dashing into the midst of a shoal of smaller fishes and striking them right and left with its saw.
Arranging themselves in a great semicircle, about a yard apart, they all paddle slowly forward, and in this way will drive a great shoal of fish into shallow water, where they may be snapped up without difficulty.
For when whalebone-whales are hungry, they swim with open mouths through a shoal of these little creatures, and then strain them out of the water by means of the whalebone fringe which hangs down from the upper jaw.
Whales, too, often follow the shoalfor days together, and sharks and many other big fishes do the same.
It feeds chiefly upon herrings, darting into the midst of a shoaland snapping them up in hundreds.
Johnson's cavalry is at Shoal Creek, not more than a mile and a half from here, and you could not pass without seeing it.
The early Dutch maps are responsible for the curiously-shaped shoal off Cape Cod, and for the southern line of New England running west from Pye Bay (Nahant).
It was of two or three tons burden, and provided with a strong rope to haul it over the rapids and shoal places.
