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Example sentences for "sandy beach"

  • On the west side is a small bight with a sandy beach in its centre but the bottom is loose and always a swell tumbling into it, indeed anchorage all round it is indifferent.

  • Heavy sea running, the Sisters west-south-west about 4 miles, at 6 hauled up for a sandy beach bearing S.

  • Kept standing up for a sandy beach on the southern end of the large Pine Island and at half-past 11 A.

  • The point I had selected for landing on was a sandy beach in a little bay, the southern extremity of which was sheltered from the south-east by a reef running off the point.

  • You will see trees at about a mile and a half distance, and a sandy beach.

  • In North Bay, the upper part seemed to be circumscribed by a sandy beach, and to offer nothing of particular interest; we therefore steered downward, on Dec.

  • The shore forms a small bight on the east side of this head, and then stretches south-south-eastward in a sandy beach, with a ridge of barren land behind.

  • The coast is a sandy beach in front; but the land rises gradually from thence, and at three or four miles back is of moderate elevation, but still sandy and barren.

  • Not far off from the settlement was a sandy beach.

  • The passage to the shore was accomplished without difficulty, and the boats entered a beautiful little bay, with a sandy beach, where the passengers easily landed.

  • A low, sandy beach was at length perceived near Kalametra, with two lakes beyond it.

  • The day was just breaking, and as the light increased rocks were seen inside of the ship, with a sandy beach and a wide extent of level country.

  • Gradually she was edging towards the shore, where a sandy beach could be discovered from the ship.

  • The best anchorage here appears to be in the second bay as you round the end of the island, forming the south-east side of the harbour; it may be known by a sandy beach at the head.

  • We remained a fortnight at Lizard Island, at the usual anchorage, off a sandy beach on its north-western side.

  • We rapidly closed in with the land, and during the night were near enough to see the surf on the coral reefs fringing the shore, it assuming the appearance, in the bright moonshine, of a sandy beach of glittering whiteness.

  • A sandy beach at the foot of Escape Cliffs was accordingly chosen.

  • Off this point is a low rocky islet; and when on the shoal, we could just make out the white sandy beach in the bay open between it and the point.

  • In the afternoon I saw some turtle lying on a sandy beach at the east end of the bay; two of which we turned and brought to the tents for general use; they were issued out in lieu of salt provisions.

  • Mr. Parker had gone ashore, and Jack could see him and the overseer talking together and inspecting a small boat that lay pulled up from the water upon a little strip of sandy beach.

  • He ran along the wharf, and jumped down from it to the little strip of sandy beach.

  • Jack was the first to jump from the bow of the boat to the white, sandy beach, littered with a tangle of water-grasses and driftwood, washed up by the waves.

  • Its shores are rocky, with some patches of sandy beach, but every where covered with trees, or an impervious jungle, composed of dwarfish trees and shrubs.

  • The casuarina grew also near the sandy beach but it seemed to prefer the exposed parts near the extremities of the sandy projections of the land where no other tree would grow.

  • On our way we had to pass round a sandy islet and a rocky reef of considerable extent; after which we anchored off a sandy beach to the eastward of Rocky Head.

  • Emerging from the grove there is a long stretch of sandy beach; the land is high and rocky, and the belt of wood which skirts the river banks is much broader than it is elsewhere.

  • The front had no veranda, the doors opening upon a slightly elevated terrace about a hundred yards distant from the broad sandy beach.

  • The place where the cuberta was anchored formed a little rocky haven, with a sandy beach sloping to the forest, within which were the ruins of an Indian Maloca, and a large weed-grown plantation.

  • Even in cases where there was a low, sandy beach, the nature of the country in the immediate vicinity made it impossible to deploy and maneuver any considerable number of troops.

  • From Cape Hellas, at the tip of the peninsula where a sandy beach made a landing possible, if difficult, the ground rapidly rose to a height of 140 feet.

  • A narrow strip of sandy beach led to the cliffs, two hundred feet high, that were believed to be almost unscalable.

  • In aid of that we must find fresh water, and I have an idea we’ll find that somewhere along under the line of bluffs—at some point where they trend well back from the shore with a sandy beach between.

  • There, Tom, give her just a capful of wind and run her gently up that little scrap of sandy beach.

  • The strangest thing she did while in such condition was on Sandy Beach.

  • We used to go swimmin' after school down to Sandy Beach on the marsh, an' in the Transit slip where they said the water was sixty feet deep, only it wasn't.


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