Shallows in example sentence

It makes it so cumbersome and dangerous to manage, you never know a moment's freedom from anxiety and care, never gain a moment's rest for dreamy laziness - no time to watch the windy shadows skimming lightly o'er the shallows, or the glittering sunbeams flitting in and out among the ripples, or the great trees by the margin looking down at their own image, or the woods all green and golden, or the lilies white and yellow, or the sombre- waving rushes, or the sedges, or the orchis, or the blue forget-me-nots.

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One of my great friends, a professor called Nick Chater, who's the Professor of Decision Sciences in London, believes we should spend far less time looking into humanity's hidden depths, and spend much more time exploring the hidden shallows.

And they spend their daytime resting and socializing in the safety of the shallows, but at night, they go off the edge and hunt in deep water.

But that only makes it necessary for the girls to do all the heavy lifting as they plod through the swamp and pull the boat through the shallows.

"In the shallows" hits it exactly,' remarked Katavasov.

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