Uninteresting and self-absorbed

Usage examples of shallow.

But the waters were full of low-tide shallows where the ships ran aground, and the coastline was confusing because what seemed to be harbors were merely straits between islands and the coast, and what seemed to be straits sometimes proved to be the wide mouths of shallow rivers.

This figure is certainly exaggerated, for the alluvium would gain on the shallows of the ancient gulf far more rapidly than it gains upon the depths of the Mediterranean.

I went over the side after Evalen and Asshe, splashing through shallow water.

She turned to flee, but Harper was in the shallows with the seven barrelled gun at his shoulder and his volley snatched Juanita off her horse in an eruption of blood.

He raised the collar of his bearskin cloak to protect his face from the numbing cold that poured past him, making his eyeballs ache and forcing him to take short, shallow breaths to keep his lungs from being frosted.

It is eight miles from a railway station and the little village of Hangingshaw, and the road to it follows a shallow valley between benty uplands till the hills grow higher, and only the size of the stream shows that you have not reached the glen head.

This poor, simple, innocent, trusting creature, so utterly incapable of coming into any true relation with his aspiring mind, his large and strong emotions,--this mere child, all simplicity and goodness, but trivial and shallow as the little babbling brooklet that ran by his window to the river, to lose its insignificant being in the swift torrent he heard rushing over the rocks,--this pretty idol for a weak and kindly and easily satisfied worshipper, was to be enthroned as the queen of his affections, to be adopted as the companion of his labors!

The overwhelming impression given by the newest changes, between the fresh green glow of her eyes and the amoebic tattoos in constant motion beneath the exposed skin of her arms and legs, was shallow exoticism for its own sake.

Herzer set one maniple of third decuri to work on the tree while the rest dug a shallow trench along the edge of the plateau.

Tryl looked up as Mank joined him, settling next to him above the bank of a shallow stream where the two slaves splashed and chattered.

From there guns could fire along the low beach to the west, northwards over the shallow Marigot Bay, and also round to the north-east, into Gallows Bay itself.

Gummage immediately supplied her with two bristle brushes, and sundry little shallow earthen cups, each containing a modicum of some sort of body color, massicot, flake-white, etc.

One mastodont was wallowing in the mud of a shallow water hole, its fringe crusted with late-winter ice.

Nellie never paused, washing out shallow, bloody wounds with cold water and swabbing them after with mercurochrome as red as those vivid berries.

But here in this shallow bay she could see clearly enough--see the flawless beauty of the mers and Silky, her companions, Their streamlined forms suspended by unseen hands.