Shorewards

Word SHOREWARDS
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Definitions and meanings of "Shorewards"

What do we mean by shorewards?

Towards the shore

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The word "shorewards" in example sentences

I avail to stop it nor turn it shorewards, till it stopped with me at a great and goodly city, grandly edified and containing much people. ❋ Unknown (2006)

So they rode in majestically, always just ahead of the breaker, carried shorewards by its mighty impulse at the rate of forty miles an hour, yet seeming to have a volition of their own, as the more daring riders knelt and even stood on their surf-boards, waving their arms and uttering exultant cries. ❋ Isabella Lucy (2004)

I saw great fat men with their hair streaked with grey, balancing themselves on their narrow surf-boards, and riding the surges shorewards with as much enjoyment as if they were in their first youth. ❋ Isabella Lucy (2004)

Hilo-wards, and for several months, spreading through the dense forests which belt the mountain, crept slowly shorewards, threatening this beautiful portion of Hawaii with the fate of the ❋ Isabella Lucy (2004)

Two or three athletes, who stood erect on their boards as they swept exultingly shorewards, were received with ringing cheers by the crowd. ❋ Isabella Lucy (2004)

The sea itself rolled shorewards more silently and lazily than usual. ❋ Isabella Lucy (2004)

The 30 day the winde Southeast, they wayed, and set saile to the Northeastwards: but the ship fell so on the side to the shorewards, that they were forced eftsoones to take in their saile, and ancre againe, from whence they neuer remoued her. ❋ Unknown (2003)

Ships -- three ships, and others heading shorewards behind them -- were coming into the deep harbour to westward. ❋ Stewart, Mary, 1916- (1983)

As far as she knew, he didn't even glance shorewards, but when he had had enough he came wading out, water dripping from him as he ran his hands over his wet head. ❋ Cork, Dorothy (1980)

I thought finally that if I didn't accept that Arne was gone and get started shorewards, I was very likely going to drown on that spot. ❋ Francis, Dick, 1920- (1974)

The engine died away in a final splutter that echoed briefly among the rocks, and then the two boats whispered their way shorewards, and the scent of the lilies came out over the water to greet us. ❋ Durrell, Gerald, 1925- (1956)

By this means, leaving Fernando to dash off, reassured himself, to reassure his lady-love, he propelled himself shorewards and, as though casually, intercepted Leo Rodd as he swam in. ❋ Brand, Christianna, 1907- (1955)

Reaching the pair, he at once gripped Bob's collar in his powerful teeth and proceeded to tow him to land, Dick hanging on behind; and Rover's muzzle was already turned shorewards, dragging his double burthen astern ere the Captain's cry of encouragement came to his ears, although on hearing it the noble animal redoubled his efforts. ❋ John B. [Illustrator] Greene (N/A)

In a dim sort of way this seemed lamentable, and I remember standing at the window, and looking out to where the white crests of the waves came racing shorewards under a leaden-coloured sky, and saying to myself over and over again, 'Oh, that way madness lies!' but without any active sentiment of dismay or fear, and with a clouded, uninterested wonder as to where the words came from. ❋ David Christie Murray (N/A)

Stane leading, to break the track in the untrodden snow, they made their way shorewards and struck it well to the north of the cabin, then began to work through the woods, keeping a sharp look out as they went. ❋ Ottwell Binns (N/A)

This, the people on board could only then have noticed for the first time, the fog having previously concealed their danger; for they distinctly heard, above the noise of the sea and wind, a hoarse shout of agonised, frantic alarm, wafted shorewards by the wind in one of its wild gusts. ❋ Unknown (N/A)

It was about two o'clock in the afternoon, judging by the height of the sun, when the serang, pointing shorewards, said: ❋ Herbert Strang (N/A)

"The bow is pointing shorewards; if we make for a point exactly opposite and go in single file in a line with the vessel's keel, they will not see us unless they put their heads clean out of the portholes and look down and aslant, and they will not do that with the chance of getting a broken skull." ❋ Herbert Strang (N/A)

"Somebody's been here afore us!" said the wrecker, with a quick look shorewards. ❋ Various (N/A)

"Kick out harder!" breathed back Barry, and thrashed the water violently to drown the noises from shorewards that told of a great number of those inquisitive reptiles cruising to investigate the commotion in their river. ❋ Aylward Edward Dingle (N/A)

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