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

From "Homecoming" by Cynthia Voigt

The loose shaly stones gave way with a rush beneath him.

From The False Chevalier or, The Lifeguard of Marie Antoinette by Lighthall, W. D. (William Douw)

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

To reach it we climb a bare, steep ridge of shaly, frost-shattered rock, in which we sink ankle deep, a difficult and even painful task with the laboured breathing of twelve thousand feet altitude.

From The Columbia River Its History, Its Myths, Its Scenery, Its Commerce by Lyman, William Denison

Josè expressed his pleasure; and a few minutes later the two men, with Carmen dancing along happily beside them, were climbing the shaly eminence upon the summit of which stood the second church.

From Carmen Ariza by Stocking, Charles Francis