We soon caught her up and after playing round her in the canoe for a time the men with shouts of laughter headed her inshore and George, in the bow, leaning over caught her by the tail and we were towed merrily in the wake.
Then to my surprise the men suddenly changed paddles for poles and turning the bows inshore poled right on up over the mud-bank.
There had been no convulsion offshore as inshore when the rocks of Afternoon Coast interrupted the rush.
Bowen, her commander, contenting himself with sheeting home his top-sails, and repeating the commodore's signal to the inshore ships.
Doris made signal for her boats and the working party to return to the ship; and soon after, for the Salsette and the inshore ships to get under weigh.
We missed a howling reef by a hair's breadth--missed it only because the new course had taken us close inshore towards the north.
By keeping in the slack water inshore they contrived to reach the mouth of the gorge about the beginning of the ebb, and their calculations were completely verified by the smoothness and safety of their subsequent passage.
The wind shifted suddenly to the north, and the 'Aurora' swung inshore until her stern was within one hundred yards of the cliffs; but the depth at this distance proved to be seventeen fathoms.
Frank and his new acquaintances were to remain on the destroyer, which would go closeinshore and land them in boats after those towed by the pinnaces had reached the beach.
The launch, left to itself during the struggle, had drifted inshore and was bumping against the rocks.
We pulled inshore for some islands lying off from the main at the western side of the South Cape.
After getting inshore about five miles we found there was not any shelter from southerly winds; the water was very deep and apparently so all the way in.
Captain Flinders went in his boat in search of deeper water and found one place nearer inshore where he thought it advisable to shift the Lady Nelson to, when the tide would permit.
Two of the inshoredhows quickly disappeared behind an intervening point, almost as high as that on which Tom and his party were posted.
He was not quite at his ease, however, with regard to the ship; she was much closer inshore than any sailing vessel would have ventured.
In case any slaver bringing up a breeze might attempt to slip by inshore of her, the boats were in readiness to shove off in chase.
I thought at the time that we were much nearer inshore than the old master fancied.
At last, in the March of the next year, when some fifty leagues or more off Brest, we made out a French frigate inshore of us.
Eventually the five steamers crept as closeinshore towards the north end of the fort as the shallow overflown land admitted.
The British flag, the Union Jack, was meanwhile flying inshore from the "Dal.
Hence they found trading stations or towns among alien peoples on distant coasts, selecting points like capes or inshore islets which can be easily defended and which at the same time command inland or maritime routes of trade.
In coastwise navigation, minor headlands and inshore islands were points to steer by; and in that early maritime colonization, which had chiefly a commercial aim, they formed the favorite spots for trading stations.
For the earliest stages of maritime development, only the smaller articulations of the coast and the inshore fringe of sea inlets count.
In this appetency for a nautical career, small inshore islets are often distinguished from the nearby mainland.
In the same way Tarentum and Syracuse, begun on inshore islands, soon overflowed on to the mainland.
Inshore or coast islands, whose history is intimately connected with that of the nearby mainland.
Thus might Barnstaple bar be avoided, and all the tumbling of inshore waters; and thus with no more than a pilot-yawl did I cross that dangerous channel, at the most dangerous time of the year almost.
What change there is in the Goodwin, and it is of a very gradual nature, takes place on the western or inshore side: its eastern side is as steep as a wall, and retains the position it had when the first exact survey of it was made.
The bonito (Sarda sarda) wanders far throughout the Atlantic, abounding on our Atlantic coast as in the Mediterranean, coming inshore in summer to spawn or feed.
A number of rare and interesting fishes wander inshore from time to time.
According to Mr. Hansen, the season of 1902 was remarkable in that the salmon ran inshore in large schools, a thing which they had not done before for years.
Operations on serious cases were performed with the greatest difficulty, and the shallow water close inshore made it impossible for the steam-cutters to bring their tows of boats very near.
The shallowness of the water close inshore made it no easy matter to get the wounded away.
These were towed as close inshore as the depth would allow, and connected with the beach by pipes.
We all waited with what patience we could till word was signalled from the Castle tower that the yacht had appeared over the northern horizon, and was coming down fast, keeping inshore as she came.
We went at a terrific pace down the coast, keeping well inshore so as to avoid, if possible, being seen from the south.
It came from down the river, propelled close inshore by two members of their own party who had gone to fetch it.
The boat, from the momentum it had gained, floated inshore and grounded gently on the beach.
When they were close inshore Aura signalled her companion and at the same moment both took the drug.
With the white water boiling under the stern the boat raced on, caught in the grip of the breaker and traveling inshore with the same speed at which the wave itself moved.
Of course it would be easier to get over the bow, but we'd have to go pretty close inshore for that, and I don't know just how deep it is there.
Bending the bight of the shot-line around the whip is not recommended, as the portion inshore is liable to foul the whip.
Across the shoal the sea was running wildly, while inshore the spray dashed so high as to completely hide the steamer from view at times.
The little band of cut-throats went ashore and advanced along the coast, while the three ships drifted along in a parallel line, keeping as close inshore as discretion would permit.
Apparently these fish pass straight inshore northwesterly and reach the coast of Maine.
Though not of great importance of late years, this was formerly considered one of the best inshore grounds for cod for the entire year and for haddock in winter.
Halibut are somewhat unusual on this western shore except about the mouth of the Bay of Fundy, but in summer these fish are occasionally found close inshore along the southwest coast, going somewhat beyond Digby to the northward.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "inshore" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: inland; interior; inward; inwardly
