barnacled

The whales kept coming, passing within 20 feet of the barnacled rocks.

On the right, a barnacled merchant ship lay similarly grounded.

Henry struggled underwater, the barnacled plates slicing his arms as they slid past.

I have forgotten to say that we found the barnacled cask nearly filled with a most delicious wine which none of us can name.

Four horses were hitched to the barnacled pile.

As the Navy's top admiral, he is trapped by the service's barnacled tradition that holds commanders responsible for their sailors' actions.

Kelp streamed upward from barnacled rocks, golden-brown, swaying to every current.

He sank to his knees in the soft loam which covered the floor, and steadied himself against a barnacled lamp post.

Eventually we got close enough to see the dramatic fluke of its barnacled tail and its breaching body, all 40 tons breaking the surface.

The side-road ended at a small weather-beaten wooden jetty that reached out twenty feet on barnacled piles into the bay.

He had emptied his lungs while he clung to the barnacled hull, hidden by the forecastle bulge.

Red tape was cut and more than 100 derelict vessels were towed out of the river where they had sat like barnacled corpses lining the banks.

As the boat rammed the steel plates, fabric ripping as it was dragged up against the rough barnacled side, he fired.

They dismounted and walked their horses over to the softer sand where there was an old barnacled pile that could be used as a hitching post.

In a century the tumbling ice mountain resembled a barnacled ship, overgrown with mottled, crusty plants that knew no constraint of gravity.

S'reee was lolling there in the wavewash, her long pale barnacled belly upward.

If I wanted to commit suicide here, I could just twitch my hand and I'd be slammed into a barnacled tree trunk at Mach 1.

A barnacled and crumpled wreck bobbed to the surface almost under the Trident, masts and hull above water for several seconds before it sank like a stone.

The creaming of the sea stopped and instead thevater wassilent, every now and then eddying with a gurgle along the barnacled planking.

"Let classes be held in the huts," he said, tossing out the concept of formal education that intimidates the disadvantaged, along with most of the federal Government's barnacled literacy guidelines.

Meanwhile, the females float lazily in circles, their barnacled bodies barely moving, as though too bored by the trappings of courtship to expend any effort on attracting a partner.

It has wide-open and pristine sands, a fresh sea and a rugged beachscape of barnacled bulkheads and sea-softened pilings jutting up out of the sand.

But not one of those ships, neither merchantman, tanker nor warship, had the slightest inkling that beneath their barnacled keels there lurked the most dangerous attack submarine on earth.

Bill Gillespie was especially warm, Henning was more than cordial, and in his own barnacled way, Admiral Cornell treated him with a respect that bordered on affection.

The lower walls of a station like 149th Street on the Grand Concourse in the Bronx resembles a heavily barnacled ship, the tile disappearing under a wedge of blackened gum.