In a long-forgotten review of a long-forgotten book, Ring of Bright Water by Gavin Maxwell, the much-racked William Golding wrote: We walk among the layers of disintegrating coral, along the straggling line of 'brown sea-wrack, dizzy with jumping sand hoppers'. ❋ Unknown (2011)
The smells of salt and sea-wrack were more intense here, the road more cluttered with trash, the passersby more colorfully garbed and noisier than any on the concourse, unless you counted Droppa. ❋ Zelazny, Roger (1986)
Round his neck hung a string of shells, unevenly threaded, with some sort of wooden charm obviously carved by the boy himself from a piece of sea-wrack. ❋ Stewart, Mary, 1916- (1983)
"Don't you think you ought to send those children to school, Mrs. McAravey?" asked the clergyman, whose kind heart had been touched, on the occasion of a recent pic-nic, to see the half-drowned little ones toiling amid the heaps of wet and writhing sea-wrack. ❋ Edward Newenham Hoare (N/A)
Elsie and Jim had been busy ever since the return of the tide, about noon, dragging to shore the masses of sea-wrack that the recent storms had loosened and sent adrift. ❋ Edward Newenham Hoare (N/A)
Captain declaring that another squall was coming, presently made them hurry back to the house, laden, however, with sea-wrack and spindrift. ❋ John B. [Illustrator] Greene (N/A)
So the poor overmatched bird doubtless argued; and ashamed of his fears, which were but too well founded, and doubtful of his instincts, which he should have trusted, the gander turned again to the little eddy of sea-wrack amid which, with soft guttural love-calls, he summoned his harem to many ❋ Charles W. Hall (N/A)
Bromine may come from sponges, or sea-wrack, perhaps. ❋ Various (N/A)
In some of the islands off the Scotch coasts, sea-wrack (_Fucus vesiculosus_) forms the chief support of horses and cattle in the winter months. ❋ P. L. Simmonds (N/A)
He fastened his horse to a young hazel and crossed the sandy interval between the mainland and the rock, sea-wrack bladders bursting under his feet, and the smells of seaweed dominant over the odours of the winter wood. ❋ Neil Munro (N/A)
They darted, like flitting swallows, in all directions, threw themselves upon the fresh rampart of sea-wrack and beat one another about the ears with the salt wet weeds. ❋ Martin Andersen Nex�� (1911)
He glanced down into the water whose uneven floor was diapered with long weedy patches, fragments of fallen rock, and brighter patches of sand; he inhaled the pungent odour of sea-wrack and listened to the breathings of the waves. ❋ Norman Douglas (1910)
They therefore sailed cautiously lest they should run aground, but all their apprehension ceased when a sounding-line two hundred fathoms long, lowered through the floating sea-wrack, failed to reach the bottom. ❋ Sven Anders Hedin (1908)
Euryalus a blow on the jaw as he was looking round; Euryalus could not keep his legs; they gave way under him in a moment and he sprang up with a bound, as a fish leaps into the air near some shore that is all bestrewn with sea-wrack, when Boreas furs the top of the waves, and then falls back into deep water. ❋ Unknown (1898)
Thrace — the north and the northwest — spring up of a sudden and rouse the fury of the main — in a moment the dark waves uprear their heads and scatter their sea-wrack in all directions — even thus troubled were the hearts of the ❋ Unknown (1898)
So heavy and confused had the storm and wreck of the last hour left him, that he did not at first observe by the backward tail of smoke that the steamer had passed round the Head, and that the cart he had met at the mouth of the port had come back empty to the cave for another load of sea-wrack. ❋ Hall Caine (1892)
As Philip reached Port Mooar, a cart was coming out of it with a load of sea-wrack for the land, and a lobster-fisher on the beach was shipping his gear for sea. ❋ Hall Caine (1892)
The sea-wrack was banked up in the darkness behind, and between two stones at the mouth there were the remains of a recent fire. ❋ Hall Caine (1892)
Its nullity, its hopelessness, its futility, its folly, the world with its elusive joys, love with its deceptions so cruel and so sweet-all, all came sweeping up on him like the sea-wrack out of a storm. ❋ Hall Caine (1892)
