off-lying

Example Sentences

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The only other alternative, besides the water, was to make a long detour through the off-lying fields, with loss of time.

From The Rival Campers Ashore The Mystery of the Mill by Smith, Ruel Perley

We were also enabled to lengthen our journeys, as we had very smooth ice to travel over, the off-lying islets keeping the rough pack from pressing in upon the shore.

From In the Arctic Seas A Narrative of the Discovery of the Fate of Sir John Franklin and his Companions by McClintock, Francis Leopold

This portion of the shore is very rocky in places, and numerous points of off-lying reefs project from the water.

From In the Andamans and Nicobars The Narrative of a Cruise in the Schooner "Terrapin" by Kloss, C. Boden

England to the south in America had just the ragged coast line, with its off-lying islands and islets, liked by all this gentry, whether smuggler or pirate outright.

From Pioneers of the Old South: a chronicle of English colonial beginnings by Johnston, Mary

There are four off-lying rocks, the farthest out being over three miles from the cape, upon which the sea is almost always breaking.

From Official Report of the Exploration of the Queen Charlotte Islands for the Government of British Columbia by Chittenden, Newton H. (Newton Henry)