sea-drift
Example Sentences
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When this happens, birds alight there; sea-drift is carried thither; seeds are blown to it by the wind; and gradually a few green blades arise.
From The Ocean and its Wonders by Ballantyne, R. M. (Robert Michael)
Every man, woman, and child in that chapel amid gray miles of rock and sea-drift, has heard over and over of the unrepentant deathbed of Mauryeen Holion.
From An Isle in the Water by Tynan, Katharine
She turned toward the south and walked along the edge of the sea-drift.
From Where the Sun Swings North by Willoughby, Barrett
You will say gulls and dog-fish, etc., would eat up the carcase, and so they would 999 times out of a thousand, but one might escape: I have seen dead land-birds in sea-drift.
From More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 1 by Darwin, Francis, Sir
They stopped, leaning over a jagged fence made of sea-drift, to ask for water.
From The Awakening and Selected Short Stories by Chopin, Kate
