Citations:sea-gluten

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 * 1871, John Burroughs, Wake-robin, page 135:
 * In July countless numbers of them, of different ages and sizes, swarm upon these sandy wastes. As the waves roll out they rush down the beach, picking up a kind of sea gluten, and then hasten back to avoid the next breaker.
 * 1892, Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, "As I Ebb'd with the Ocean of Life":
 * Fascinated, my eyes reverting from the south, dropt, to follow those slender windrows,
 * Chaff, straw, splinters of wood, weeds, and the sea-gluten,
 * Scum, scales from shining rocks, leaves of salt-lettuce, left by the tide…