shelvy

1 The horse and man, for some time, seemed entangled with each other; but, at last, the horse escaped, and made for the further shore, which was shelvy and hard.

2 They appear sloping down to the water’s edge, not shelvy, but smooth, and their exuberances rounded off, and, in some places, deeply furrowed, as though they had been worn with continual floods of water.

3 The dry channel between shelvy banks of gravel showed white in the unclouded yet dull starlight.

4 A skiff she notes, by the shelvy marge, Wont deftly across to speed its charge; Now jumping and twisting, like leaf on a lynn, Wo! if a foot list cradle therein!

5 A bleak defile, a pass in mountains deep, Whose whitened summits wear their morning glow, And dark banditti winding down the steep Of shelvy rocks, pointing their guns below.

6 In his marines, he followed the same taste; they represent the desolate and shelvy shores of Calabria, whose dreary aspect is sometimes heightened by terrific tempests, with all the horrors of shipwreck.

7 Fear then this forceful arm, and hear once more, Death stands between thee and that shelvy shore.

8 They appear sloping down to the water's edge, not shelvy, but smooth, and their exuberances rounded off and, in some places, deeply furrowed, as though they had been worn with continual floods of water.

9 I had been drowned but that the shore was shallow and shelvy.

要不是岸边水浅和海岸成倾斜状我早就淹死了.

1 渐渐倾斜

shelving shelve

2 倾斜

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3 渐渐倾斜的

shelving

4 倾斜的

slantwise declivous bias inclined declining slant sloping slanted pitched cant raked slanting aslant atilt