shorewards

Example Sentences

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Then Tom fixed his eye on some moving lights shorewards.

From The Boys of the Wireless by Webster, Frank V.

The next moment its crew had cast off, and its head had been swung round shorewards in response to the race of its powerful motor.

From The Men Who Wrought by Cullum, Ridgwell

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)

Charley Bo Yip's head popped out of the galley door; and the guards all stared shorewards.

From Fire Mountain A Thrilling Sea Story by Springer, Norman

And they were off, clutching at the sides of the little boats, as with rueful faces they joggled shorewards over the choppy waves.

From The Fortunate Isles Life and Travel in Majorca, Minorca and Iviza by Boyd, Mary Stuart