ridgelike

Updated: May 1, 2025

It would have been an island but for the narrow strips of sand, heaped high and ridgelike, which bound it to the main land; and this slender bridge, it often seemed, would be torn away by the ravenous sea which gnawed and engulfed great tracts at once, and yet heaped it higher and broader in the next storm.

Glance Gaylord - Culm Rock: The Story of a Year: What it Brought and What it Taught