shallows
noun C2- An area in a large body of water with many shallow areas. · You'll have to navigate carefully through these shallows.
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Therefore Marilla conceived it to be her duty to drill Anne into a tranquil uniformity of disposition as impossible and alien to her as to a dancing sunbeam in one of the brook shallows.
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