Bights

It gives them some cover when the news media bights into it. ❋ Unknown (2009)

He noes al abowt sinnets an prolong nots mak gud silver bracelets an leads an bights an tings. ❋ Unknown (2008)

The distinctive bights of the body and the chink with the fingers are played normally from women by as being frequent details. ❋ Unknown (2008)

About 104 miles long by 40 miles wide, with a convoluted coastline bisected by several large bights, the island has hundreds of square miles of bonefish flats — more than can be fished in a lifetime. ❋ Unknown (2005)

Two starboard quarter wires parted; all bights of stern wires frozen in ice; chain taking weight. 2 p.m. — ❋ Unknown (2006)

A dozen men-of-war are gliding majestically out of port, their long buntings streaming from the top-gallant masts, calling on the skulking Frenchman to come forth from his bights and bays; and what looms upon us yonder from the fog-bank in the east? ❋ Unknown (2004)

And here, in fern and yellow grass and tufted bights of bottom growth, the wind made entry for the sun, and they played with one another. ❋ Richard Doddridge (2004)

It is true, we are such poor navigators that our thoughts, for the most part, stand off and on upon a harborless coast, are conversant only with the bights of the bays of poesy, or steer for the public ports of entry, and go into the dry docks of science, where they merely refit for this world, and no natural currents concur to individualize them. ❋ Unknown (2004)

It was only on the very edge of the bank, and in the bottoms of the bights, that any eucalypti grew; the plains were covered with nothing but gnaphalium: the soil various, in some places red tenacious clay, in others a dark hazel-coloured loam, so rotten and full of holes that it was with difficulty the horses could travel over them. ❋ Unknown (2003)

South of that, the shallows narrow, and they can get to us unless we hole up in one of the shallow bights. ❋ Modesitt, L. E. (2001)

Only gradually, as her vision cleared, did Tanni make out a contorted face among those cable-thick bights. ❋ Anderson, Poul (2000)

He secured bights around his waist and, with an effort, Ilitu's, precaution against contingency. ❋ Anderson, Poul, 1926-2001 (1994)

I could see every rib, the joints of their limbs were like knots in a rope; each had an iron collar on his neck, and all were connected together with a chain whose bights swung between them, rhythmically clinking. ❋ Unknown (1960)

So for a whole day we grappled there near Iligan, "fishing for bights," as the punster on board called it, and surely even Izaak ❋ Florence Kimball Russel (N/A)

Then we bent ropes to each end of three thwarts, and thrust an oar through the bights of each pair of ropes. ❋ Charles Boardman Hawes (N/A)

On the northern coast of the rocky island a bold promontory or rugged tongue of land, Mount Sceberras, separates two deep bights or inlets. ❋ Stanley Lane-Poole (N/A)

Gilian forgot the hazards of the enterprise and the discomforts to be faced; he had no time to think of what was to be done next for them in their flight, so full was he with the romance of those multitudinous lakelets lost in the empty and sunny wilds, some with isle, all with shelving heathery braes beside them, or golden bights where the little wave lapped. ❋ Neil Munro (N/A)