foreland

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After a week of intensive damage to British and neutral shipping by submarine-laid mines along England's east coast, night witnesses on the forelands beheld sights never before seen outside of futuristic war novels.

From Time Magazine Archive

A tide at the making licked ardently upon sand-spits strewn with ware, and at the forelands, overhung by harsh and stunted seaside shrubs, the breakers rose tumultuous.

From Doom Castle by Munro, Neil

The forelands are fiery with foam Where often and often he roved; He sleeps in the sight of the home That he built by the waters he loved.

From The Poems of Henry Kendall With Biographical Note by Bertram Stevens by Kendall, Henry

Then, leaving myths for history, we remember how the ships of Nikias set sail from Reggio, and coasted the forelands at our feet, past Naxos, on their way to Catania and Syracuse.

From Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Third series by Symonds, John Addington

Here, from the forelands of the tideless sea, Behold and take my offering unadorned.

From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 14 (of 25) by Stevenson, Robert Louis