The lead, nevertheless, still gave water sufficient, though it was shoaling fast, and with a most ominous regularity.
Up went all the blinds, and down went all the windows, and every one who could gazed upon the blue sea shoaling into green with white-flaked edging on the frizzling sands.
Then below, a sheer fall of four hundred feet, are the little crabbing boats, mere specks upon the blue, shoaling into green and breaking into foam upon the dark, weathered rocks.
Upon that rock I built my church, and his great and valid talent saved me often from destruction, saved me from the shoaling waters of new æstheticisms, the putrid mud of naturalism, and the faint and sickly surf of the symbolists.
Upon that rock I built my church, and his great and valid talent saved me often from destruction, saved me from the shoaling waters of new aestheticisms, the putrid mud of naturalism, and the faint and sickly surf of the symbolists.
Comparatively light, it can be hauled long distances, and is the only boat that has been found suitable for launching from flat beaches through the shoalingwaters of the Atlantic and Gulf coasts.
This, as well as the adjacent banks of St. Pierre, Bank Querau and the Flemish Cap, abound with fish of various kinds, which at stated seasons adopt this as a shoaling place or grand rendezvous.
As I observed that the water was shoaling fast, I kept in the middle of the stream; and, under an impression that it would be impossible for me to avoid a conflict, prepared for an obstinate resistance.
With a frantic rush O'er the wild field of tangles he hath sped, And through the shoaling waves that fell and fled Upon the furrow'd beach.
Pulo Lack on our starboard, and eleven or twelve small islands on our larboard; our depthshoaling from, fourteen to ten fathoms us we passed between two islands to the east of Palo Lack.
Thirdly, the shoaling continued until the river-water prevailed, so that it was no longer habitable by marine Testacea, but fitted only for the abode of fluviatile species and aquatic insects.
The water buoyed a weight which he could not otherwise have budged; he stumbled in the shoaling gravel to his knees, rose again lifting and straining, until blackness rushed across his eyes; and he pitched forward on his face.
Then he saw, a hundred yards away, that the bank of the stream fell away until it became a gradually shoaling beach to the water edge.
They were always prolific fishery grounds, and the name seems to have been given them from "the shoaling or schooling of the fish around them.
The bay is remarkable for its tides, which are probably the highest in the world, owing to the concentration of the tidal wave by the approach of the shores and the gradual shoaling of the bottom.
The unwitting pilot was slowing down; it was time for the submarine to "part company", for the water was shoaling considerably.
It was expressly stated that, owing to the shoaling nature of the coast at the point, gigs or whalers must be employed, but a destroyer would be cruising in the vicinity to pick up the rescue parties on their return.
The anchor afforded sufficient resistance to keep the bow of the boat toward the entrance of the cove, but they were sliding stern-first farther into the shoaling waters.
In passing between the two islands they had deep water; but on its suddenly shoaling they tacked and stood to the westward.
The depths in Mbua Bay remain about the same, with perhaps a shoaling of less than a fathom in places.
There is evidence of theshoaling of the ship channel amongst these islands to the extent of about a fathom during this period.
For the first three miles the soundings did not show less than three fathoms, with an even sandy bottom, the last mile shoaling gradually to the beach; the landing being easily effected, as there now was but little surf.
The instant he saw the water shoaling dangerously he simply jumped overboard, grabbed his feather-weight craft by the nose and trotted right out on dry land.
That was the reason why when, entangled in a maze of shoaling channels, Joe picked up his canoe and trotted up on a bar for the third time, I had the corner of a wild-weather eye lifting for a possible gateway of escape.
Their shoaling effect upon the Amazon depression must have been a large factor in its steady growth from an inland sea to a river lowland.
To these disadvantages must be added a third, the shoaling of the sea bottom, which compels ships to anchor far off shore.
Experience shows that where there is a fair percentage of sand in the material adjacent to the channel bed, the shoaling is lessened.
The hands in the chains were kept heaving the lead, which showed that the brig was slowly shoaling her water.
We are shoaling our water rapidly," observed Captain Lascelles to the first lieutenant.
I had just ordered a man to stand-by to heave the lead at the first sign of shoaling water on the starboard bow, when the tail of my eye caught a glimpse of Rona stepping out on deck from the cabin companion way.
It was only after an abrupt greening of the tourmaline depths of the passage we had been threading suggested a sudden shoaling that it occurred to him to unroll and study his chart.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "shoaling" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
