Humming-birds, too, are quite common here, and the robin is always found along the margin of the stream, or out in the shallowest portions of the sod, and sometimes the grouse and mountain quail, with their broods of precious fluffy chickens.

There are never spines on the Globigerinoe from the bottom, even in the shallowest water.

His intellect was of the shallowest order.

Now, the lower part of the clay, near here, contains shallow-water shells: but if you went forty miles to the eastward, you would find in the corresponding lower beds of the clay, deep- water shells, and far above them, shallow-water shells such as you find here: a fact which shows plainly that this end of the clay sea was shallowest, and therefore first filled up.

All angers are not armd; the lowdest Channell Runs shallowest, and there betrayes his weaknes:

In fact, if we view with an unprejudiced eye this Hellenistic literature of the sixth centurythat poetry followed out professionally and destitute of all productiveness of its own, that uniform imitation of the very shallowest forms of foreign art, that repertoire of translations, that changeling of eposwe are tempted to reckon it simply one of the diseased symptoms of the epoch before us.

The shore of the lake is at this point, and indeed all round its circumference, so flat that it is impossible to land with dry feet from the shallowest canoe.

A Step-Topped Niche on the Island of Koati When the Indians wish to go in the shallowest waters they use a very small balsa not over eight feet long, barely capable of supporting the weight of one man.

It lies 565 feet above the sea-level, and is the shallowest of all the Lakes, being only 84 feet in mean depth.

Under the tiny bridge there ran the shallowest and clearest of little rivers.

The sepulchres of the Dukes had to emerge into prominence; the statues subordinate to these main masses occupied shallower recesses; the shallowest of all, reserved for minor statuary, are adorned above with garlands, which suggest the flatness of the figures to be introduced.

In its shallowest places it exceeded a foot in depth, and in the deepest, spots where natural fissures had aided the drill, it required four or five feet of materials to form the level.

Planting his pole firmly down the stream, so as to support himself against the current, he cautiously advanced, step by step, "prospecting" the bottom with his feet, so as to ascertain the shallowest ford, and that freest from rocks and stones.

Could'st thou know How great man is,how great thou art, What destined worlds of weal or woe Lurk in the shallowest human heart, From thee thy vanities would drop, Like lusts in noble anger spurned By one who finds, beyond all hope, The passion of his youth returned.

She may be the shallowest of living creaturesthe most selfish, the falsest, the basest.

The secret, such as it had become, might, for all practical purposes, be known to the whole world, for unquestionably the shallowest observer was at present able to detect it.

Their channels were a league apart, but the flood was so high that they now made one great river five miles in width, the overflow of water being three feet deep in the shallowest part of the plains between and alongside them.

The tone of intellectual disparagement and moral rebuke which certain critics,deceived by the shallowest sophisms with which an unscrupulous writer could work on their prepossessions and insult their understandingshave adopted towards Mr. Newman made exposure necessary.

Singularity may be as shallow as the shallowest conformity.

She was a trim, graceful thing, with all the appearance of an excellent sea-boat, and though she looked like a craft that could stand a lot of heavy weather, she had the advantage of being so light in draughtsomething under three feetthat it was possible for her to enter the shallowest harbour.

When Mayhew came, full of bustle, assumed, and badly too, as the shallowest observer could perceive, he turned to him, and in a quiet voice asked "if his child was much worse since the previous night.

Hobos or Jovos is a haven of considerable importance; sailing vessels of the largest class may anchor and ride in safety; it has 4 fathoms of water in the shallowest part of the entrance, but it is difficult to enter from June to November as the sea breaks with violence at the entrance on account of the southerly winds which prevail at this season.

After a scanty supper of selánka, dried fish, hardtack, and tea, we stretched our tired bodies out in the shallowest puddles we could find, covered ourselves with blankets, overcoats, oilcloths, and bearskins, and succeeded, in spite of our wet clothes and wetter beds, in getting to sleep.

It has 4 fathoms of water in the shallowest part of the entrance.

“Yes; it’s shallowest where the house stands.