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Example sentences for "kelp"

Lexicographically close words:
keipit; kekaubi; kele; kelkaj; kelkajn; kelpie; kelt; kem; kemperye; kems
  1. Then fearing the terrible rage of Zampa's father, he dared not return with the body, so he left it with the overturned canoe in the kelp and weeds.

  2. The morning broke, and she saw the weeds and the kelp where her lover had gone from her sight, and, with a glad sigh, she clasped Zampa's child to her breast and sank down among the weeds where he had died.

  3. The sides were covered with long streaming kelp and many-coloured seaweed, which moved gently up and down to the rise and fall of the ocean swell.

  4. Look, the topmost fringe of kelp on the rocks is quite dry, and six feet above the water, and there is no surf.

  5. Unlike the kelp goose, which has a very rank taste, derived from its feeding chiefly upon the filmy seaweeds covering the tidal rocks, the upland goose is excellent eating, and formed a welcome addition to our fare on board.

  6. When she was not under way and the sea was fit the big carrier rode at anchor in the kelp close by Poor Man's Rock, convenient for the trollers to come alongside and deliver when they chose.

  7. And in another week they will be breaking water like trout in a still pool around the rocky base of the Ballenas Light and the kelp beds and reefs of Squitty Island.

  8. He had fished for salmon along the kelp beds there and dug clams under the eye of the Elephant long, long ago.

  9. So they hold to deep open water and leave the kelp and shoals to the rowboats.

  10. So he pursued the salmon as the salmon pursued the little fish among the kelp and boulders.

  11. And when they were all dead and gone, Poor Man's Rock would still bare its brown hummock of a head between tides, the salmon would still play along the kelp beds, in the eddies about the Rock.

  12. They now approached a kelp bed, the straight, thin stems of the kelp running far upward to the surface of the water.

  13. Here and there upon the stalks were leaves, but Trot thought the growing kelp looked much like sticks of macaroni, except they were a rich, red-brown color.

  14. The ledge dipped sharply under the overhanging surface and extended shoreward in a narrow shelf, carpeted by kelp and washed by the sea.

  15. Cover them with a thin layer of damp kelp and put in the potatoes.

  16. As he stretched the islander at full length on the soft kelp and knelt over him, he caught sight of a man's foot protruding from behind a rock.

  17. When you get them all in, cover the whole thing with a lot of heavy kelp and batten it down with a big piece of canvas.

  18. Gregory sank to the sand beside the dark mound of dampened kelp and watched the operations of the chef as he busied himself in removing the heavy pieces of canvas which covered the sea-grass.

  19. In another moment he could reach out and grip the kelp with his hand.

  20. Smith flattened to the kelp and wriggled nearer with the two men behind him following close.

  21. There he could crawl up on the soft kelp and rest.

  22. Serpulidæ The calcareous tubes of these animals are seen everywhere below half tide, on rocks, in holdfasts and on kelp (spirobis).

  23. This is a fairly abundant goose barnacle, found in holdfasts of kelp and occasionally on driftwood and floating objects.

  24. One species, a light brown form, was found abundantly in kelp holdfasts.

  25. Never do you see one of these eels in the open water; they lie deep under the stones or twine their lithe, slippery bodies among the waving kelp or seaweed.

  26. There was but little weed cast up here, and that kelp chiefly, there being scarcely a rock for rockweed to adhere to.

  27. So at the potash works which I have seen at Hull, where they burn the stems of the kelp and boil the ashes.

  28. This animal, which abounds in Alaska, and is found occasionally on the southern coast of California, frequents the masses of kelp which line the shore; but there is no kelp about the Farallones.

  29. The algin extracted from the Pacific kelp can be used as a rubber surrogate for water-proofing cloth.

  30. So efforts are now being made to get more out of the kelp than the potash.

  31. The experts of the United States Department of Agriculture have placed high hopes in the kelp or giant seaweed which floats in great masses in the Pacific Ocean not far off from the California coast.

  32. Kelp is obtained by burning dried sea-weeds in a [Page 137] shallow pit; the ashes accumulate and melt together, and this fused mass broken into lumps forms kelp.

  33. Kelp and upland geese abound, the latter being edible; and their shooting affords some sport.

  34. Do you s’pose the kelp has anything to do with the big fish coming to our bay?

  35. Do you remember how rarely kelp was found in this bay then?

  36. We however tugged at the oars, but made little progress, the kelp being extremely thick, long and strong, and the current running direct to the shore.

  37. Here and there upon the stalks were leaves, but Trot thought the growing kelp looked much like sticks of macaroni, except they were a rich red-brown color.

  38. Today William has been getting kelp to put on our garden.

  39. Under the boats they played draughts; an upturned box serving for table and board, kelp for the black pieces, and sliced potatoes for the white.

  40. These two had started off for church this morning, but could not pull through the kelp and had to return.

  41. On the other side lies Water, the roaring Ocean, kelp in his hair, Neptune's trident in his hand, by him one of his fabled monsters.

  42. Fucus/ and /Laminaria/ constitute the kelp from which iodine is obtained, and were at one time the source of the potash of commerce.

  43. It is olive-green, thus simulating in color the kelp among which it lives.

  44. A litter of driftwood, kelp and mulched rubbish was swirling back and forth among the churning pebbles that with each refluent wave went clattering down in a mad chorus.

  45. A huge roar rumbled through the water, whipping the beds of kelp to mad convulsions.

  46. As tall as a man they were, and there were two of them, though at first the nature of their bodies merged with the wreathing kelp made them seem like a dozen.

  47. Fifteen minutes after leaving the cavern of the octopi her bow poked through the weaving kelp into the free, salty depths of the Atlantic Ocean.

  48. Almost obscured by bands of thick-leaved kelp the yellow form moved, hands clearing a pathway through the weeds.

  49. The cold weeds of the sea-floor kelp beds swayed eerily over and around it.

  50. Early the next morning I stood out from Borgia Bay, and off Cape Quod, where the wind fell light, I moored the sloop by kelp in twenty fathoms of water, and held her there a few hours against a three-knot current.

  51. I did not run the Spray into the inner harbor of Port Angosto, but came to inside a bed of kelp under a steep bluff on the port hand going in.

  52. However, long trailing kelp from sunken rocks waved forebodingly under her keel, and the wreck of a great steamship smashed on the beach abreast gave a gloomy aspect to the scene.

  53. The sloop carried her anchor away, as though it was meant to be always towed in this way underfoot, and with it she towed a ton or more of kelp from a reef in the bay, the wind blowing a wholesale breeze.

  54. Hundreds of tons of kelp had been torn from beds in deep water and rolled up into ridges on the beach.

  55. Both kelp and eelgrass beds are important feeding sites for birds in areas south of the region affected by ice scour.


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