I had heard Fernandez boast of the completeness and efficiency of his coastguard service.
They wore the uniform of the Equinata Coastguard Service, and the individual in the centre was plainly an officer.
There had been a week of summer; the tide would be high, and only a day or two back a coastguard at the Gap had told her that the water was warming fast.
It was somewhat misty up there on the hill, though clear above; the sea was wrapt in a white blanket, and the Coastguard Station at the Gap was invisible.
Thinking vaguely thus, the girl once down the hill caught hold of Ragamuffin and spun him along the valley between the hills till she came to the coastguard station, straggling like a flock of sheep across the Gap.
In the hollow between the two hills a white coastguard station sentinelled the Gap, across which the line of the sea stretched like a silver wire.
A sleepy coastguard had emerged from one of the cottages and was washing at a tub of rain water.
It was in this mood that I had to put Monny on that coastguard camel, while "Antoun" stood looking on.
He was indeed, the day I would have the coastguard camel, and he came after me when it ran away," she confessed.
And if any are to blame, it is not those who come to take pleasures provided for them, but rather they who cheat the coastguard of the swift-running camels, and bring what is forbidden into Egypt.
I suppose I must have done something to the steering-gear of that camel, which coastguard camels do not permit.
But while I stood spitting out sand, Anthony flung himself onto one of the swift coastguard beasts, and was after her like a streak of four-legged lightning.
He had started from Cairo in the morning on a coastguard camel, coming quickly along the camel route between Bedrashen and Tomieh, and the extra few miles to our encampment.
I said yesterday that you were selfish, keeping the coastguard camels for yourself and Lord Ernest and General Harlow, and giving us women the baggage ones.
Near it is Sennen Cove, where there is a fishing-village and a Coastguard station.
The hull of a small man-of-war is anchored, or rather beached, on the mud near the mouth of the river, and serves as a coastguard station.
Ships are stationed at different ports round the coast, and are called "Coastguard" or district ships, for Coastguard and Royal Naval Coast Volunteer duties.
We went on board the guardship stationed here, with some of the officers, with whom papa was acquainted, and were interested in hearing an account of the Coastguard system.
The distance seemed very long, and I thought we must have missed the Coastguard station, which was situated at the edge of the cliffs.
Not long ago a boat was discovered by one of the Coastguard men on the beach; and on hurrying towards her, he found a poor fellow lying on the sand almost exhausted.
Generally, several were chosen, so that should the Coastguard be on the watch near one, the smugglers, warned by signals from the shore, might run to another.
This was a signal to the Coastguard to secure the end of the hawser to one part of the double line or whip, when all hands taking hold of the latter, we hauled off the hawser to the wreck.
On this the Coastguard men hastened to the nearest lifeboat station, when the boat was immediately manned and pushed off for the wreck, the position of which the seaman had described, though as it was night she could not be seen.
We had passed a Coastguard station a little way to the northward.
The Coastguard hauled away with all their might, helped by two of the rescued crew, while the lieutenant and the rest stood by ready to take hold of the captain.
The coastguardstruggled to slip the loop under the man's shoulders along his legs; but it must have been impossible, for presently he made a signal to be raised.
It don't take a coastguard to tell that,' said old man Timbury.
No mistake, Mr. Trehawke, he's a handy chap is Eddowes for the coastguard job.
Eddowes the coastguard took charge of the operation, and Mark with beating pulses watched the end of the rope touch the huddled form below.
If the people regarded a coastguard as an enemy, if he and his family were left severely alone, if he were often maltreated and occasionally shot, his position might be a difficult one, even if supported by the whole force of the state.
If Mr. Danvers and Maurice really persuaded the coastguard people to launch the lifeboat, they would only cause their own death, and the death of the men who went with them.
For some time she obtained partial shelter by means of a high wall which guarded a certain part of the road, but to reach the coastguard station she had to cross a headland.
He turned without a word, pulled Cecil's hand through his arm, and, turning to face the gale, walked quickly in the direction of the coastguard station.
Oh, if I can only reach the coastguard station before the men have lowered the lifeboat!
I must get to thecoastguard station, without a moment's delay.
The coastguard men had provided themselves with coils of rope and some grappling-irons to fasten into the top of the cliff.
You are right there, miss," said one of the coastguard men.
And I too, sir," said a coastguardman of the name of Adams.
Kate can't be found anywhere, and Mr. Danvers and Maurice have gone on to the coastguard station to get some of the coastguards to help to look for her.
How am I to reach the coastguard station, in the teeth of such wind and rain as this?
Lying out at sea, opposite Amble coastguard station, the white lighthouse on Coquet Island keeps watch over the entrance to the harbour.
There is here a cheery-looking white-washed coastguard station standing on the bold headland of Newton Point.
There's a submarine and a coastguard cutter at Santiago de Cuba," was the answer.
In the meantime a coastguard cutter had anchored close to the Sea Nymph and an officer came aboard.
Your father lies insensible at the door with that coastguard in charge.
When the coastguard rang the bell and roused the servants he handed over two insensible men to be taken indoors.
Father is in bed and the coastguard is gone, Douglas.
In a frenzy of eagerness, and in deadly fear lest the evil should overpower the good, Montrose sprang to his feet and hurried impetuously towards the lights of the coastguard station.
He was surprised to think that Montrose was concealed so near to the coastguard station, and no great distance from Tremore itself.
Alice led her father down to the very verge of the cliffs, and halted there a stone's-throw from the coastguard station.
I can take him along with my mate here, sir," said a coastguard gruffly; "if you go you will be arrested for the murder of that old foreign cove.
One coastguard returned to the station, but Montrose and the other carried the body of Enistor on a hurdle--taken from a near sheepfold--to Tremore.
I must say you seem to be pretty hard and fast ashore in mighty sloppy water," commented the coastguard captain.
But I have an idea that she will be reported as a menace to navigation, and that a coastguard cutter will blow her up before you can get around to make your salvage arrangements.
In front, through the darkness, came the spaniel's bark; the lights of the coastguard station faintly showed.
I spent it at the coastguard station, where they gave me bread and cheese and some awful cider.
The combe ends in a sandy cove with black rock on one side, pinkish cliffs away to the headland on the other, and a coastguard station.
In the evening, as I was starting for the coastguard station to ask for help to search the cliff, Pasiance appeared, walking as if she could hardly drag one leg after the other.
I obtained very inferior accommodation at Cloghane, on an inlet at the eastern base of the mountain; and cleaner and better, but not so convenient, from a coastguard at Ballydavid, to the west of Brandon.
Some friends ran to a coastguard station a mile or more away for a rope.
In the old days the people of the islands would have had it all; but the coastguard took care of it.
True, miss, true," agreed the coastguard as he prepared to resume his way.
To make a brief exploration of the country east of Weymouth the road should be taken that keeps close to the shore until the coastguard station at Furzy Cliff is reached.
Close to the church and the Coach and Horses Hotel, the unpretentious but comfortable hostelry on the left of the street, a lane leads to the coastguard station and beach.
The coastguard saw the gallant warriors coming, bade them welcome, and led them to their ship.
Beowulf made answer that they came as friends, to rid Hrothgar of his wicked enemy Grendel, and at that the coastguard led them on to guide them to the King's palace.
Nevertheless, it can hardly be doubted that concealment from the eye of the coastguard was sought by this means quite as much as, if not more than the sheltering the beasts of burden from the weather.
The whole coast, north and south, lends itself to smuggling; and smuggling had been carried on as a profitable speculation till it ceased to pay, when heavy duties were removed, and when the coastguard became efficient.
Here was a poor old coastguard who had been taken prisoner by the Corsairs thirty years earlier, carried to Algiers, and afterwards ransomed.
And in the coastguard houses you would have a very comfortable home, and a garden to look after; and your husband might get promotion.
At all events, she could ask at one or two of the coastguard stations if anything had been heard of Sal.
You see it wouldn't do for me, who might one day get a coastguard appointment, to try on any smuggling.
At Jury's Gap, a long white-daubed coastguardstation marked the end of the road.
An hour's walking brought them to the end of the Ness--to a strange forsaken country of coastguard stations and lonely taverns and shingle tracks.
But in 1845 the first steps were taken to utilize the coastguard as a reserve to the navy.
The coastguard was originally designed to prevent smuggling.
Since that year the coastguard has been recruited from the navy, and has been required to do regular periods of drill at sea, on terms laid down by the admiralty from time to time.
The rise and early history of the coastguard are told in Smuggling Days and Smuggling Ways, by the Hon.
In May 1857 the service was transferred entirely to the admiralty, and the coastguard became a part of the navy, using the navy flag.
He put her quietly on his own horse, and led it by the bridle back to the coastguard station, where the rest of the girls were waiting, very anxious to know what had become of Honor, and very rejoiced when they saw she was safe.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "coastguard" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
