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Quotes About Shingle

Will you walk a little faster?' said a whiting to a snail, 'There's a porpoise close behind us and he's treading on my tail. See how eagerly the lobsters and the turtles all advance! They are waiting on the shingle -- will you come and join the dance? Will you, won't you, will you, won't you, will you join the dance?
~ Lewis Carroll
In this state, drugged by the rainy dusk, she almost always returned with sensual closeness to seaside childhood; once more she felt her heels in the pudding-softness of the hot tarred esplanade or her bare arm up to the elbow in rain-wet tamarisk. She smelt the shingle and heard it being sucked by the sea.
~ Elizabeth Bowen
Whoever has been spared the worst is lucky. When high gods shake a house That family is going to feel the blow Generation after generation. It starts like an undulation underwater, A surge that hauls black sand up off the bottom, Then turns itself into a tidal current Lashing the shingle and shaking promontories.
~ Seamus Heaney
Donald Trump was seen for quite a long time as a punchline, the jokes about the excesses and the failures of the 1980s. And he had become, you know, a human shingle and a punchline.
~ Timothy L. O'Brien
but I say give me rain, rain, rain on the shingle roof for roses and inspiration every time
~ Vladimir Nabokov
But now I know it is the earthAnd not the water that is unstable,For at every rise and fall of the pellucid tideIt seems as though it were the shingleAnd the waving forest of sea-growthThat moves—and not the water!
~ Hugh MacDiarmid
The front door faces a slope to a shingle shore, a dock, a boathouse, and open water.
~ Dean Koontz
Just a little meddling with dark forces better left alone," I said lightly, holding up the burning shingle.
~ Patrick Rothfuss