shorewards
Example Sentences
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On the poop still stood Captain Dabney, his rifle trained shorewards.
From Fire Mountain A Thrilling Sea Story by Norman Springer
After my swim, I hurried back shorewards to secure my prize, when, much to my chagrin, I found my boy floating about, enjoying himself.
From In Touch with Nature Tales and Sketches from the Life by Gordon Stables
All around were pieces of timber of all sizes and shapes, slowly drifting shorewards with the flood tide.
From The Quest of the 'Golden Hope' A Seventeenth Century Story of Adventure by Percy F. (Percy Francis) Westerman
Somebody was baling furiously, two men tugged and thrust, Spanish fashion, at every oar, and they reeled away shorewards with the water lapping into her.
From The Dust of Conflict by Harold Bindloss
The sun sinks beyond the vast expanse of open, wide, and illimitable sea, heaving with a deep and mysterious ground swell as the long waves roll shorewards.
From The Cornish Riviera by E. W. Haslehust
