shorewards

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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

When she stood close to the waves all these little whirligigs came dancing shorewards, until they stopped only a few feet away and gazed at her curiously.

From The Piskey-Purse Legends and Tales of North Cornwall by Tregarthen, Enys

The second stage was reached when, instead of trying to escape shorewards, where there were tufts of coarse grass upon a sandy bank, he turned and faced the thing.

From The Wave An Egyptian Aftermath by Blackwood, Algernon

This time the relief was late and the M.L. steamed angrily up and down, with all eyes strained shorewards.

From Submarine Warfare of To-day How the Submarine Menace was Met and Vanquished, With Descriptions of the Inventions and Devices Used, Fast Boats, Mystery Ships by Domville-Fife, Charles W. (Charles William)

The loophole commanded the causeway leading shorewards; through it the Norman could see who came and went, and even the crossbeam of the ugly object which rose where the causeway touched the land.

From Historical Romances: Under the Red Robe, Count Hannibal, A Gentleman of France by Weyman, Stanley J.