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Example sentences for "barnacled"

Lexicographically close words:
barmaid; barmaids; barman; barn; barnacle; barnacles; barnea; barnlike; barns; barnyard
  1. In the second engraving, the boat is in the act of drawing alongside the barnacled flank of a large running Right Whale, that rolls his black weedy bulk in the sea like some mossy rock-slide from the Patagonian cliffs.

  2. They who waited on the barnacled hulk of the Polly, faint with hunger, bedraggled with brine, unkempt and wholly miserable after a night of toils and vigil, felt like beggars at a palace gate as they surveyed her immaculateness.

  3. One after the other, barnacled anchors splashed from catheads, dragging rusty chains from hawse-holes, and old, patched sails came sprawling down with chuckle of sheaves and lisp of running rigging.

  4. Off the port bow Gregory saw a narrow pathway of quiet water fringed on one side by white-toothed swells, on the other by the barnacled feet of the point itself.

  5. With her eyes still held by the barnacled rocks, she snapped: "Then you may see something.

  6. Of equal weight and strength, the struggle resolved itself into a question of endurance, as the two men rolled over each other on the barnacled rocks in an effort to break the other's grip and strengthen his own.

  7. Picking his way over the barnacled rocks he started for the beach.

  8. Any native of Essex, by these old barnacled laws, is free to help himself to clams from any town flat.

  9. Then Mart gripped the kris, tore it from the barnacled wood, and whipped around to meet his enemy.

  10. A trifle above the level of his head flamed out a little silver line of light--it was the kris, protruding handle outward from the barnacled wood.

  11. Two days later a typhoon struck her and she was soon swinging bottom upwards, with the kittiwakes shrieking over her barnacled keel.

  12. Here they clambered over crags and barnacled boulders till they came to a quiet pool reflecting the blue of the sky.

  13. Its rugged sides held caves quite large enough for persons of such size as the Roseberry family, and they were presently hidden behind their barnacled barriers.

  14. Let us roam the flood; let us follow this monster fish with the barnacled sides; this strange-looking fish, so high out of water; that goes without fins.


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