The frigate only stayed at the wharf long enough to take on board the boxes from the cart before she raised a foresail and slipped away from the dangerously shallow water to return to her deeper anchorage.

But the roots were dangerously shallow and the brush was slowly giving way to the old man's weight.

Chapter 27 Knave whined softly, his great head on his paws, his body encircling the sleeping boy, whose breathing sounded dangerously shallow.

His flesh turned cold, his color paled, his pulse became rapid and erratic, his breathing was dangerously shallow as he exhaled in rapid pants.

He dove off the dock into the river, not realizing that, over the winter, it had become dangerously shallow.

Stevens discovered waters around 54 feet deep, although he failed to discover the dangerously shallow area around the Bishop Rock - and it does not show up on the first Coast Survey map published in 1853.

At 16:15 the British warships examined the mouth of the inlet, straying into dangerously shallow water in their efforts to close with Hermione.

The submarine was in dangerously shallow water, and the sooner he got away the sooner her crew would be safe again.

The Kursk, a 14,000-ton vessel, traveled through the shallows of the Barents Sea at a depth that several Russian naval officers regarded as dangerously shallow.

Still, the drow could not support himself and his breath was dangerously shallow.