"Shaly" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... climb the steep and shaly walk that led, among retentive oak trees, or around the naked gully, all the way from his lonely cottage to the light, and warmth, and comfort of the peopled Manor House. And within himself he thought, the more from contrast of his own cold ...
— Frida, or, The Lover's Leap, A Legend Of The West Country - From "Slain By The Doones" By R. D. Blackmore • R. D. Blackmore
... followed by a rumbling reverberation, marks the fall of an avalanche. Water everywhere trickles through the shaly debris scattered around. In the full sunshine the rocks are almost too hot to bear touching. A few hours later the cold is deadly, and all becomes a frozen silence. In such scenes of desolation and destruction, detrital sediments are actively being ...
— The Birth-Time of the World and Other Scientific Essays • J. (John) Joly
... walked quite proudly on the rocky ledge And shouted, "I am standing here so high! How fine the valley and the flowing rye, I see the barn that's near the osage hedge; Come look—it's splendid from this shaly edge!" He leaned far out and slipped—the foolish guy. Where he had stood was only murky sky. To face great danger is a privilege. Don't dare for show, my boy, the rock might slide. For worthy cause the brave will stand or fall, But watch the stepping where the bluff is steep; ...
— Some Broken Twigs • Clara M. Beede
... stalk are seen in the fossil to be shaped something like a comb, or a saw, whilst up the centre of each pinnule the vein is as prominent and noticeable as if the fern were but yesterday waving gracefully in the air, and but to-day imbedded in its shaly bed. ...
— The Story of a Piece of Coal - What It Is, Whence It Comes, and Whither It Goes • Edward A. Martin |
