shorewards

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This chasm commences about 15 miles from land and is shaped like a V, with the narrow end shorewards.

From West African studies by Kingsley, Mary Henrietta

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 Westerman, Percy F. (Percy Francis)

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 Stables, Gordon

Nor could he help but realize the other's almost slavish deference, as, in response to the older man's order, he hastily moved off shorewards.

From The Men Who Wrought by Cullum, Ridgwell

Mattawa Tom leapt shorewards from moving log to log, but for a few moments Thurston, who scarcely noticed his absence, chopped on alone.

From Thurston of Orchard Valley by Dunton, W. Herbert