shorewards
Example Sentences
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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)
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
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
The next had a hissing crest, part of which splashed on board, and they went shorewards like a toboggan down an icy slide on the shoulders of the third.
From Hawtrey's Deputy by Cuneo, Cyrus
Then Tom fixed his eye on some moving lights shorewards.
From The Boys of the Wireless by Webster, Frank V.
