briming

This is called "briming," and the pilchards, thus perceiving the trap in their way, turn aside and escape its meshes.

Michael Penguyne Fisher Life on the Cornish Coast William Henry Giles Kingston 1847

I kept to it on hands and knees, and it brought me down to the head of a small cove where a faint line of briming showed the sea's edge rippling on a beach of flat grey stones.

The Adventures of Harry Revel Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903

Archelaus called out, and he spied a grey line of breaking water -- luckily the sea was full of briming to-night -- at the base of the fog, quite close at hand.

Major Vigoureux Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903

Of imminent danger -- danger close at hand -- I had no fear at all, trusting that the still night would carry any sound of mischief, and, moreover, that no boat could approach without being signalled, a hundred yards off, by the briming in the water.

Sir John Constantine Memoirs of His Adventures At Home and Abroad and Particularly in the Island of Corsica: Beginning with the Year 1756 Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903

It may be that for the last half a mile or more they had wriggled their boat down to the attack by means of an oar or sweep shipped in the stern notch: a device which would avoid all noise and, if they came slowly, all warning but the ripple of briming off the bows.

Sir John Constantine Memoirs of His Adventures At Home and Abroad and Particularly in the Island of Corsica: Beginning with the Year 1756 Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903

The only light came from the water, where our oars swirled it in pools of briming, [1] or the tow-rope dropped for a moment and left for another moment a trail of fire.

Sir John Constantine Memoirs of His Adventures At Home and Abroad and Particularly in the Island of Corsica: Beginning with the Year 1756 Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903

As briming rarely occurs during twilight, and the ocean is at that time dark enough to hide the wall of twine, the fishermen generally shoot their nets soon after sunset and just before dawn, when the fine weather makes it probable that they will be lighted up by the dreaded briming at the other hours of the night.

Michael Penguyne Fisher Life on the Cornish Coast William Henry Giles Kingston 1847

Well, just imagine one simple scene, you playing on the beach, walking on a sandy beach or soft moss, briming over the blue seawater!

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