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Definition of Shallowest
1. shallow [adj] - See also: shallow
Lexicographical Neighbors of Shallowest
Literary usage of Shallowest
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Southern Writers: Biographical and Critical Studies by William Malone Baskervill (1896)
"... I say, in all these music is always. present to utter the shallowest or the
deepest thoughts of man or spirit—let us cease to call music a fine art, ..."
2. The Voyages of the English Nation to America by Richard Hakluyt, Edmund Goldsmid (1890)
"At our comming vp to Santos we found foure fadom and a halfe water in the shallowest
place, and the like we found within a league after we were departed ..."
3. A System of Geography, Popular and Scientific: Or A Physical, Political, and by James Bell (1832)
"... island is by leaping out of the boat upon the reef where there is least surf,
and where the sea is shallowest. The population amounts to about 200, ..."
4. A Practical Treatise on Petroleum: Comprising Its Origin, Geology by Benjamin Johnson Crew, Charls Albert Ashburner (1887)
"... and it is the uniform experience that the lightest oils are found in the lowest
sandstones, while the heaviest oils are drawn from the shallowest wells; ..."
5. A Practical Treatise on Petroleum: Comprising Its Origin, Geology by Benjamin Johnson Crew, Charls Albert Ashburner (1887)
"... and it is the uniform experience that the lightest oils are found in the lowest
sandstones, while the heaviest oils are drawn from the shallowest wells; ..."
6. Men of the Time: Biographical Sketches of Eminent Living Characters ... Also (1859)
"... but some think him also one of the most insincere, mocking, and corrupt, of
public men, and at the bottom one of the shallowest in all sound knowledge. ..."
7. London and Middlesex: Or, An Historical, Commercial, & Descriptive Survey of by Edward Wedlake Brayley, James Norris Brewer, Joseph Nightingale (1810)
"... that " the same was found to lie two feete deepe in the shallowest," and when
driven by the wind, "an ell or yard and halfe deepe. ..."
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