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sea-drift



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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

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

The young people scrambled and slipped over the sea-weed at the mouth of the cave, and presently found themselves standing on a floor of light-coloured sand, strewn with shells and sea-drift.

From The Adventure League by Skae, Hilda T.

He was very fond of spending what leisure time he had in strolling along the rocky coast searching for sea-drift and minerals, or reading some favourite book.

From Triumphs of Invention and Discovery in Art and Science by Fyfe, J. Hamilton

Poseidon, rider of the wild sea-drift, Tamed them, men say, and gave them for his gift To Peleus.—None the less, since I have stirred Hopes, I will baulk them not.

From The Rhesus of Euripedes by Euripedes




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