shorewards

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Slowly the ungainly pontoon with its heavy burden began to move shorewards, when suddenly the bows of the canoes rose high in the air, throwing their occupants on their backs.

From The Nameless Island A Story of some Modern Robinson Crusoes by Westerman, Percy F. (Percy Francis)

His ears had caught a slight splash at no great distance shorewards.

From With Drake on the Spanish Main by Strang, Herbert

Then Tom fixed his eye on some moving lights shorewards.

From The Boys of the Wireless by Webster, Frank V.

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 Scheffel, Joseph Victor von

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 Haslehust, E. W.