rock-pool

Adults relax on the Elle Deco-style terrace of No.56 Main Street eastfifeletting.co.uk as the cousins rock-pool, dig for lugworms and paddle right below, in rain or shine, for hours on end.

Summer holidays: Top 10 places for over-fives 2011

They had not intended to spend the afternoon, but found themselves too fascinated to turn away from the breakers bursting upon the rocks and from the many kinds of colorful sea life starfish, crabs, mussels, sea anemones, and, once, in a rock-pool, a small devilfish that chilled their blood when it cast the hooded net of its body around the small crabs they tossed to it.

CHAPTER VI 2010

So she is alone and a law unto herself: she only wants me to explore me, like a rock-pool, and to bathe in me.

The Trespasser 2003

As he had on so many such afternoons, Drada pushed his way through the trailing undergrowth to a rock-pool fringed with wooden benches.

The Hawk Eternal Gemmell, David 1995

"We really have got plenty to eat " and that rock-pool to drink from when we've finished the ginger-beer.

The Sea of Adventure Blyton, Enid 1948

The ginger-beer had now all been drunk, so they drank the water from the rock-pool, which was rather warm from the sun, but tasted very sweet.

The Sea of Adventure Blyton, Enid 1948

"No, not in the rock-pool, Lucy-Ann, so don't look so upset " I'll go down to the little cove where the boat is.

The Sea of Adventure Blyton, Enid 1948

Philip felt that he ought to have been thoroughly happy in that answer of hers; she was as open and transparent as a rock-pool.

X. The Spell Seems Broken. Book VI—The Great Temptation 1917

They had not intended to spend the afternoon, but found themselves too fascinated to turn away from the breakers bursting upon the rocks and from the many kinds of colorful sea life starfish, crabs, mussels, sea anemones, and, once, in a rock-pool, a small devilfish that chilled their blood when it cast the hooded net of its body around the small crabs they tossed to it.

Chapter 6 1913

All is shown in these two books in an exceptional degree, and, in Barbellion's diary, is expressed with a remarkable wit and acuteness, and not seldom, as in the description of a quarry, of a Beethoven Symphony, of a rock-pool of the Devon coast, with a beauty that is startling.

Waiting for Daylight 1915