shorewards
Example Sentences
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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.
A heavy swell was running from the south-west, and rank on rank of breakers—10 feet or so in height—were rolling shorewards, throwing up clouds of smoke-like foam.
From In the Andamans and Nicobars The Narrative of a Cruise in the Schooner "Terrapin" by Kloss, C. Boden
The surf breaking shorewards was tremendously high; and meeting and struggling with it came a rush of the current from within.
From The Old Helmet, Volume II by Warner, Susan
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)
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
