Shoals
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Examples
- The Memphis and Charleston Railroad strikes the Tennessee at Eastport, Mississippi, and follows close to the banks of the river up to the shoals. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Bath being full, the company, and the sixpences for tea, poured in, in shoals. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- I have got clear of some shoals, and have more sea-room. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Shoals of our straggling youth have been swept into the ocean by an unexpected breeze! Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- But Muscle Shoals is not navigable, and below them again is another shoal which also obstructs navigation. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- As we have seen, Hood succeeded in crossing the Tennessee River between Muscle Shoals and the lower shoals at the end of October, 1864. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- With Fort Henry in our hands we had a navigable stream open to us up to Muscle Shoals, in Alabama. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- The Tennessee River was patrolled by gunboats, from Muscle Shoals east; and, also, below the second shoals out to the Ohio River. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
Typist: Robbie