BLOW, blow your trumpets till they crack,
Ye little men of little souls! And bid them huddle at your back -
Gold-sucking leeches, shoals on shoals!英文原著 · 《Phantasmagoria and Other Poems》
They kept on hauling in, for their time could not be lost in chatting; they had an immense quantity of fish in a traveling shoal, which had not ceased passing for the last two days.英文原著 · 《AN ICELAND FISHERMAN》
She was away like a racehorse, clearing Balesuna Shoal with half a cable- length to spare. Just before she rounded the point she was swallowed up in a terrific squall that far out-blew the first. All that night, while squall after squall smote Berande, uprooting trees, overthrowing copra-sheds, and rocking the house on its tall piles, Sheldon slept. He was unaware of the commotion. He never wakened. Nor did he change his position or dream. He awoke, a new man. Furthermore, he was hungry.英文原著 · 《Adventure》
Why, do you know, she'll steer by the wind with half a spoke, give and take. And going about! Well, you don't have to baby her, starting head-sheets, flattening mainsail, and gentling her with the wheel. Put your wheel down, and around she comes, like a colt with the bit in its teeth. And you can back her like a steamer. I did it at Langa-Langa, between that shoal patch and the shore-reef. It was wonderful. "But you don't love boats like I do, and I know you think I'm making a fool of myself.英文原著 · 《Adventure》
"Betty, stop!" cried Wetzel. She paid no attention to his call. In another moment the pony would be off the shoal and swimming. "Stop! Turn back, Betty, or I'll shoot the pony," shouted Wetzel, and this time there was a ring of deadly earnestness in his voice. With the words he had cocked and thrown forward the long rifle. Betty heard, and in alarm she turned her pony. She looked up with great surprise and concern, for she knew Wetzel was not one to trifle.英文原著 · 《Betty Zane》
The annular reef on the north-west side is broken, and blends into a shoal sandbank, on which the sea breaks.英文原著 · 《Coral Reefs》