1. Attracted by its unusual colour and shape the beachcomber picked it up.

2. BEACH-COMBER Enliven an autumn palette with shades of citrus and spice, then indulge yourself in cashmere.

3. Jason Purvis, the starving beachcomber and would-be great novelist who at last did achieve a kind of fame.

4. Further along the shore a few beachcombers were bunkered down, husking washed-up coconuts for copra; others collected shellfish.

5. It was found by a beachcomber on Tasmania's west coast,() the museum said.

6. I took you for a thieving beachcomber , and not for a really intelligent pirate and murderer.

7. As well as keeping their eyes peeled for surface coins and jewellery, beachcombers also look for non-metal items on their foreshore hunting grounds.

8. Let me finish by reminding you that, like successful detectorists, beachcombers work with nature.

9. It may turn out that bin Laden is hiding somewhere far away—in his family's ancestral homeland of southern Yemen, perhaps, or posing as a dreadlocked beachcomber in Costa Rica.

10. Usually flying on coke or heroin, he spent his nights at the Beachcomber, a college bar where he'd drink rum and Coke and sway to the Velvet Underground.

11. The year after she met my father at the Beachcomber, a career-placement test noted her "superior" judgment, an abundance of "common sense, foresight, and the ability to reach sound decisions."