House, so that it was John Barleycorn who led him to the sandspit in quest of his old shirt. ❋ Unknown (2010)
And because I told Scotty what I thought of his letting an old man like French Frank get away with him, we, too, brawled and added to the festivity of the sandspit. ❋ Unknown (2010)
From the sandspit the way led out through the Golden Gate to the vastness of adventure of all the world, where battles would be fought, not for old shirts and over stolen salmon boats, but for high purposes and romantic ends. ❋ Unknown (2010)
As they headed in for the sandspit, the submerged salmon boat could be seen, gunwales awash and held up from sinking by ropes fast to the schooner and the sloop. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Skiff after skiff crossed the estuary and hauled up on the sandspit, while Hans 'work was cut out for him -- ever to row back and forth for more supplies of booze. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Reindeer, crewless, lay across the estuary at the sandspit. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Split-up; but when the sandspit, over which they had portaged, crashed at the impact of a million tons, Corliss glanced at her anxiously. ❋ Unknown (2010)
The battered old Douglas C-47 Skytrain of the China National Aviation Corporation, its chocolate brown fuselage battle-scarred with bullet holes and dents, shuddered its way down through the rain clouds, the pilot following the slow bends of the Yangzi River until he had the sandspit landing field in sight in front of him and the cliffs of China's capital city to his left. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Fervently hoping its lone occupant was still alive and not badly injured, Tom lowered the great plane to the water and set it down on a broad sandspit at the head of the lake. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Farewell Spit, at the tip of the northern coast, is the longest sandspit in the country with the largest intertidal sandflat system. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Damned if I know what this has to do with Mexico except for the fact that Bubba's prescience regarding future catastrophic natural events resulted in his being safely tucked away in the Mexican Highlands instead of lounging upon a sandspit in Ono or Phuket. ❋ Unknown (2005)
John Henry Riley sailed for South Africa in January 1871, narrowly escaped death at sea when his steamship got stuck on a sandspit off the African coast, worked the Kimberly fields for the full three months, found no diamonds, stabbed himself with a fork on the return voyage and contracted blood poisoning, and arrived home in the fall with nineteen pages of notes, which Sam never looked at, having lost interest. ❋ Ron Powers (2005)
The statio malefida is defended to the north by a short sandspit and a submerged reef; and southwards by a projection of sandstone conglomerate. ❋ Unknown (2003)
We then doubled a long sandspit running out to sea eastward, and forming, on the north, a deep bay well protected from the souther; whilst several lines of reef and shallow to the north defend it from the angry Bora. ❋ Unknown (2003)
As we passed the projecting tooth of Shark Point, a sandspit garnished with mangroves and dotted with palmyras, the land-squali flocked from their dirty-brown thatches to the beach, where flew the symbolic red flag. ❋ Unknown (2003)
Another “Jimmy,” a native of Hinchinbrook, is differentiated by “Yaeki-muggie,” the title of the sandspit of one of the Brook Islands. ❋ Unknown (2003)
On the south side is the Kinburn Peninsula, a long sandspit. ❋ 9781451603996 (2003)
To obtain demonstration of the vitalising and nourishing principles in maritime sands under the effects of heat, light, and moisture, it is necessary to retrace our steps and walk round the sandspit to the transfigured and degenerate mouth of that once mangrove-creek known to the blacks by a name signifying that a boy once tethered in it a sucking fish (Remora). ❋ Unknown (2003)
Blobs of light are cast off from her bows as she rounds the familiar sandspit and glides to her moorings. ❋ Unknown (2003)
