Example Sentences

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These black-hooded Sisters of the Coast, keeping their lonely vigils, were as safe from beach-combers and sea-prowlers as their white-capped namesakes would have been threading the lonely suburbs of some city.

From Tides of Barnegat by Smith, Francis Hopkinson

Alone, with one of Lighter's saddle-horses under him, his baggage secured behind the saddle, he might have been threading the dunes of the Columbia now.

From The Rim of the Desert by Anderson, Ada Woodruff