shorewards
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His ears had caught a slight splash at no great distance shorewards.
From With Drake on the Spanish Main by Herbert Strang
The Moors left the yacht; the felucca sailed 96 away; not shorewards, as Tom had expected, but out to sea.
From King of the Air Or, To Morocco on an Aeroplane by Herbert Strang
This chasm commences about 15 miles from land and is shaped like a V, with the narrow end shorewards.
From West African studies by Mary Henrietta Kingsley
And they were off, clutching at the sides of the little boats, as with rueful faces they joggled shorewards over the choppy waves.
From The Fortunate Isles Life and Travel in Majorca, Minorca and Iviza by Mary Stuart Boyd
Where the fiery hill is shedding its light, And the breakers are shorewards sweeping, On thee thou defiant end of the world!
From Ekkehard. Vol. I (of II) A Tale of the Tenth Century by Joseph Victor von Scheffel
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