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They spent a night on a shaly beach, with no shelter and no fire.

From "Homecoming" by Cynthia Voigt

As the impurities increase in amount the clay rocks pass gradually into argillaceous sands and sandstones, argillaceous limestones and dolomites, shaly coals and clay ironstones.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 4 "Cincinnatus" to "Cleruchy" by Various

“Well,” decided Pike after a rod or two of tramping along the shaly, hot bed of a dry arroya.

From The Treasure Trail A Romance of the Land of Gold and Sunshine by Amick, Robert Wesley

When the rock becomes coarse by the admixture of sand, it gradually passes into a shaly sandstone.

From Geology by Geikie, James

A little distance below my camp site, the moraine-covered snout gives place to pinnacled ice, divided into three sections by two broad, shaly medial moraines.

From Mount Everest the Reconnaissance, 1921 by Howard-Bury, Charles Kenneth