Lexicographical Neighbors of Chesil
Literary usage of Chesil
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Geographical Journal by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain) (1898)
"(c) That the arrangement of the shingle on the chesil Beach is due in but ...
The chesil Beach is periodically raked over by the sea throughout its whole ..."
2. The Geological Observer. by Sir Henry Thomas de la Beche (1851)
"The chesil Bank, on the coast of Dorsetshire, affords a good example of the driving
... 52) is a section across the chesil Bank, a being the bank ; Fig. ..."
3. Thomas Hardy's Dorset by Robert Thurston Hopkins (1922)
"The shingle is part of one of the remarkable features of the Dorset coast—the
chesil Beach or chesil Bank, which runs as far as Portland. ..."
4. Geological Travels by Jean André de LUC (1811)
"At present, by the long continuance of the same operations, the chesil bank is
become ... Excursions on the Hills which border the chesil BANK. 512. ..."
5. The Doctrine of the Deluge: Vindicating the Scriptural Account from the by Leveson Venables Vernon-Harcourt (1838)
"FROM the same source we may obtain the best information with respect to the next
Asterism in Job, chesil, which our translators have rendered Orion ..."
6. Annals and Magazine of Natural History by William Jardine (1861)
"Capture of the Long-finned Tunny on the chesil Beach. ... The captor informed me
that "it run ashore like a whale," on the chesil Beach. ..."
7. Highways and Byways in Dorset by Frederick Treves (1906)
"CHAPTER XV THE LAND BEHIND THE chesil BEACH THE chesil Bank is a magnificent
beach of pebbles, which swings in a stately curve from the foot of Portland to ..."
8. Geology of Weymouth, Portland, and Coast of Dorsetshire, from Swanage to by ROBERT. DAMON (1884)
"The chesil Bank, situated within one of the largest bays in the kingdom, ...
tA description of the chesil Bank, by Sir John Coode, M.Inst.CE, ..."
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