Swamps would, perhaps, better describe these shoaly sheets of water, which in summer so swarm with mosquitoes that deer and even the natives sometimes die from their attacks.
"From Paris to New York by Land"
Harry de Windt
The island was very large, rocky, and thickly wooded, and the coast was rocky too, and the water very shoaly, which made me understand how difficult landing must have been in the stormy weather.
"Marjorie"
Justin Huntly McCarthy
Led by the kindest and most helpful of captains, they poured in information, and I acquired a taste for "facts"-any sort of facts about anything-a taste when applied to West African facts, that I fancy ranks with that for collecting venomous serpents; but to my listening to everything that was told me by my first instructors, and believing in it, undoubtedly I have often owed my life, and countless times have been enabled to steer neatly through shoaly circumstances ashore.
"West African studies"
Mary Henrietta Kingsley