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Use in Literature ShoalingHis wife and daughters, however, made much of me, and introduced me to their friends, who came in shoals to call upon me.ndash;Samuel Butler (1835-1902) in Erewhon (Revised Edition).Colonel Chabert's widow had not been the means of allying him to anybody; he was alone and unsupported in steering his way in a course full of shoals and beset by enemies.ndash;Honoreacute; de Balzac in Colonel Chabert.Insinuating, tactful, and warned by Clotilde of the shoals he should avoid, he flattered Monsieur de Grandlieu's little weaknesses.ndash;Honoreacute; de Balzac in Scenes from a Courtesan's Life.As the cries of the circling tern mark the movements of the distracted shoals, the blacks in canoes fit in to the scheme of destruction, taking a general toll.ndash;E.J. Banfield in The Confessions of a Beachcomber.They came across in shoals.ndash;E.J. Banfield in The Confessions of a Beachcomber.They are in shoals all over the mountains, and eat the fruit in the orchards.ndash;K.M. Barrow in Three Years in Tristan da Cunha.Why, there's the young gentlemen from the Abbey School comes here in shoals, leaving books, and letters, and masters too.ndash;George Borrow in Lavengro.You could see that he would have been far more in his element smelling his way through the shoals of the Ems mouth, or beating against a northeaster in the shallow Baltic.ndash;John Buchan in Greenmantle.There may be family reasons why I should avoid the Count di Peschiera; and, indeed, he is safest from shoals who steers clearest of his relations.ndash;Edward Bulwer-Lytton in My Novel, book 8.These circumstances, together with its shoals, render it very dangerous, and more ships have been wrecked in the Bay of Birket Faraoun than in any other part of the gulf of Tor, another proof, in the eyes of the Arabs, that spirits or demons dwell here.ndash;John Lewis Burckhardt in Travels in Syria and the Holy Land.