He poked about with a bit of stick, that itself was wave-worn and whitened and a vagrant, and tried to control the motions of the scavengers ... ❋ Adam Phillips (2010)
We had difficulties and anxieties of our own, but as we passed that graveyard of the sea we thought of the many tragedies written in the wave-worn fragments of lost vessels. ❋ Underwood, Lamar (2001)
The inlet's slick wave-worn walls offered little in the way of hand or foot grips, and the crumbling rim overhung the water. ❋ Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- (1997)
India bent to pick up the piece of wave-worn green glass. ❋ Mariah Stewart (1997)
Looking behind, he saw the two minidrag tamers he had followed in, leaning up against a wave-worn rock. ❋ Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- (1977)
Here the beach was narrow, a strip of blue sand-gravel walled by wave-worn boulders. ❋ Andre Norton (1958)
He poked about with a bit of stick, that itself was wave-worn and whitened and a vagrant, and tried to control the motions of the scavengers. ❋ Golding, William, 1911- (1954)
Yes, it is quite the fairest scene one need wish to rest wave-worn and eager eyes upon, and it is still more beautiful if you look over the vessel's side. ❋ Various (N/A)
With the morning's light he was seen guiding his shallop across the crimson waters of the lake towards the peninsula of Muckruss, and having moored his little bark in safety beneath the shelter of a wave-worn rock, he advanced with becoming dignity towards the abbey. ❋ Various (N/A)
And, by His power, the wave-worn craft the shore in calm is nearing, ❋ Various (N/A)
A ledge of the iceberg, some forty feet above the wave-worn base, had received a tiny branch of the fresh-water stream, at some time long previous, and its course could still be traced by the immense icicle formation, which, in fantastical imagery of a lofty cascade, seemed still to fall from base to summit. ❋ Charles W. Hall (N/A)
We drove through the sand again in a hired and springless Cape cart down to the Point, got into the port-captain's boat and rowed across a little strip of sand at the foot of a winding path cut out of the dense vegetation which makes the bluff such a refreshingly green headland to eyes of wave-worn voyagers. ❋ Various (N/A)
And there, too, was the old wave-worn rock -- the scene of her life's only romance -- where, stealing out from her father's cabin at the evening hour, and seating herself so close to the waterline that the spray of the tideless sea would dash up and bathe her naked feet, she would wait in all innocence for the coming of the young sailor from Samos. ❋ Various (N/A)
Late in the month the voyagers sighted the sterile shores and barren mountains of Patagonia, and next the volcanic rocks, wave-worn and wind-worn, of Tierra del Fuego. ❋ Anonymous (N/A)
To th 'shore, that o'er his [398-18] wave-worn basis bow'd, ❋ Charles Herbert Sylvester (N/A)
Nature and man have both accomplished their work in this spot; and the relics they have left behind are only the exuviæ of the chrysalis out of which the butterfly has emerged, or the empty wave-worn shells left high and dry upon an ancient coast-line. ❋ Hugh Macmillan (N/A)
