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Example sentences for "shore"

Lexicographically close words:
shopper; shoppers; shopping; shops; shopwoman; shorebirds; shored; shoreless; shoreline; shorely
  1. Having reached the sacred strand, the shore of the crimson seas, Glorified be my Lord, the All-Glorious!

  2. She washed him up the shore like behemoth, and left him gaping.

  3. A deep fear held him all the way, and when he stepped on shore at Rozel Bay he was as one who had come from the grave, haggard and old.

  4. At a little distance from the island, a quarter of a mile perhaps, lay a monster battleship, while between her and the shore were a number of smaller cruisers and one-man scouts.

  5. The first night that finds a small craft moored near the shore of Shador," I replied.

  6. The loyal fellow would not be the one to force from mine a confession of the terrible truth that I had returned from the bosom of the Iss, the River of Mystery, back from the shore of the Lost Sea of Korus, and the Valley Dor.

  7. Several miles in advance lay a range of hills--the farther shore of the dead sea we had been crossing.

  8. The man you may return to the Isle of Shador which lies against the northern shore of the Sea of Omean.

  9. On the shore of this sea stands the Golden Temple of Issus in the Land of the First Born.

  10. Only a bare half-hour before I saw you battling with the plant men I was standing in the moonlight upon the banks of a broad river that taps the eastern shore of Earth's most blessed land.

  11. They would all go on shore and it was great fun watching the people who came from near-by farms bringing vegetables and fruits and fowls to sell.

  12. The river, though of great width, appeared, from shore to shore, to be almost a solid bank of fish.

  13. Canandaigua is a town of villas, built on the rising shore of the Canandaigua lake.

  14. On one part of the shore of the river, he was delighted by the appearance of a great number of plants, of a species of oenothera, each plant being covered with hundreds of large golden yellow flowers.

  15. As far as the mouth of the river Missouri, he says, the eastern shore of the Mississippi consists of a sandy soil, and is covered with timber-trees of various kinds.

  16. They now stood along the western shore of this bay, which they found indented with several deep bays or inlets.

  17. On one part of the shore Mr. Bartram beheld a great number of hillocks, or small pyramids, in shape resembling haycocks, and ranged like an encampment.

  18. The Alleghanies are about 250 miles distant from the shore of the Atlantic.

  19. On the 28th of August the vessel was much injured in passing up a series of rapids nearly eighteen miles in extent, and, in some places, reaching from shore to shore.

  20. From the Cannon river it is bounded on the east, by high ridges; but the left shore consists of low ground.

  21. A man, when his shore riotings are thoroughly systematic, as mine were, can calculate his days of revelry to a nicety.

  22. So I went out, and tramped down to the shore opposite to where the ugly cutter was riding.

  23. On the opposite shore a party of Indians was encamped, who caught the horses as they ascended the bank.

  24. It was now necessary that they should cross the Penobscot river, and very fortunately they discovered a canoe with oars on the shore suited to their purpose.

  25. Experience taught him also, as the outline of the far-off shore receded from sight, that his only expedient was to endeavor to reach the Canada shore, a distance of fifty miles.

  26. Here, supposing themselves to be out of danger, the men carelessly leaped on shore to drag the boats up against the current, which here rushed violently around the base of the cliff.

  27. When morning dawned, the outline of the Canada shore greeted his sight; he soon made the land in the vicinity of Long Point.

  28. I felt a craving for something to eat, and looking around for some game, I saw a flock of geese on the shore of the river.

  29. On a September morning of the year 1817, Solomon Sweatland, of Conneaut, on the Ohio shore of Lake Erie, had risen at earliest dawn to enjoy his favorite amusement of hunting deer.

  30. The presence of these opercula in swallows' nests is very curious,[164] and leads one to suppose that they must have been brought there from some distant shore in the swallow's stomach.

  31. To return to the sea, the true home of the cormorant; that sea "Whose rocky shore beats back the envious siege Of watery Neptune.

  32. Yes, I recollect your look when you held the bunch of grapes to my lips, as I sat by the sea-shore deserted by all the world; and now, what friends have I.

  33. With boards and baulks, an old pole-mast and other timbers from the unsightly little backyard, it had taken him the greater part of the day to shore the chimney up again.

  34. The sea tidied up the shore again as the housemaids took up the crumbs from the hotel carpets.

  35. Perhaps the caissons are already on the way; certainly a group of strangers has been busy on the shore any time this past twelve months.

  36. That wide pool in the sands that reflected the sky had not been there a fortnight before--for the sea had now lost its summer look, and it changed the configuration of the shore at night.

  37. It ran from the shore to Pritchard's Corner, was prolonged past that to the new station, and was the main thoroughfare for landaus and wagonettes off to the mountains.

  38. A portion of the shore had been set apart for this "playing with fire," but within a year even this had become a dead letter.

  39. Who were these people who strolled among the droning bees of the sandhills or pushed out from the shore in boats?

  40. Starting at right angles from the Porth Neigr road, a couple of hundred yards short of John Pritchard's farm, there runs straight down to the shore a street of rather more than a quarter of a mile in length.

  41. It was about that time that he acquired his second slice of Llanyglo, a tract adjoining the first and running down to that shore that Copley Fielding depicted with such accomplishment, elegance, and taste.

  42. As the skirmishers arrived on the further shore they naturally took such cover as they could get, and opened a rapid fire.

  43. Morning found them posted in the bed of the canal which connects Washington with Harper's Ferry, and which runs close along the Maryland shore of the Potomac at this point.

  44. Stumbling and floundering along, they at last gained the farther shore and quickly succeeded in compelling the rebels to retire.

  45. I saw a low shore that it was driving toward.

  46. In his reply he informed me that my friend had been killed the same day that I saw him in my cabin on the shore of Lake Superior.

  47. Again, many years earlier, whiling away the time one summer evening in a green lane that led to the shore of a beautiful Canadian lake, I had an experience which similarly gave me food for thought.

  48. Some years ago my brother was employed on, and had charge as conductor and engineer of, a work train on the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railway, running between Buffalo and Erie.

  49. When the commander went on deck, the fog had disappeared, and the shore was to be seen at the distance of about six miles from the steamer.

  50. We shall be too far in for her to do us any harm, for the water has not less than four fathoms anywhere along the shore of St. Rosa's Island.

  51. It suggested a blockade runner, a battery, or a house near the shore where he did not expect to find one.

  52. In spite of the fact that it was a pretty day, I should think you would have spent your last day on shore with your mother and sister as I did," replied Christy.

  53. The commander on shore could see by this time, if he had not before, that a gunboat was in the offing, and that he might soon have a better use for his powder than wasting it upon the boat.

  54. He passed out into the lane, as the man came into it from the middle of the field, for he had not been near enough to the shore to discover the boat.

  55. The quarters of the soldiers were passed, though they were not in use, and the shore reached.

  56. The course was believed to be correct for the point indicated by the captain, and in less than half an hour the boat grounded; but the shore was bold enough to enable the men to land.

  57. Make the boat's course north north-west, and you will strike the shore about half way between the planter's house and the fort.

  58. On the shore of the Grand Pass, above the fort, were three buildings, formerly occupied by mechanics and laborers.

  59. Though limited in territory, Scotland has a shore line thousands of miles in extent.

  60. And almost immediately he dodged into a nearby thicket of bushes and stood there peering forth at a little skiff that came gliding toward the shore from underneath a gnarled oak tree overhanging the water.

  61. When they reached the shore they found the rebel's wife awaiting them in the place where they had left her.

  62. After repeatedly immersing himself, he waded back to the shore and lay down to dry in the sun.

  63. It is composed of broken coral and shells and is covered near the shore by low bushes.

  64. Officers and men were more than usually fatigued after the preparations for sea both on shore and on board.

  65. As before noted, there came on shore from the wreck when it was being stripped a box of Manila cigars, and it has been supposed that they were all distributed by the generous owner and had been smoked.

  66. We then found her to be inside of the large breakers, and we drifted toward the shore at a place called Kalihi Kai, about five miles from Hanalei.

  67. Before I left Hanalei for Honolulu it was reported by a half-white who had been left to watch the shore at Kalihi Kai that Andrews's body had come ashore and had been taken care of.

  68. We found the shore party all well and looking forward with pleasure to the closing day of their contract.

  69. I remained on shore with a few men to assist in sorting out and making a list of the articles rescued yesterday and to assemble them in the best place suitable for their preservation.

  70. The body of John Andrews did not come on shore until about December 20th.

  71. On their march, they saw the vessel which conveyed General Carleton; and afterwards found he had been on shore at Point Aux Trembles, a few hours before they reached that place.

  72. On the opposite shore of Jersey, at a place called Red Bank, a fort had also been constructed which was defended with heavy artillery.

  73. This fort commanded the channel between the Jersey shore and Mud Island; and the American vessels were secure under its guns.

  74. The German division under Major General Reidisel, which occupied the eastern shore of the lake, was encamped at Three Mile Point, and had pushed forward a detachment near the rivulet, which runs east of Mount Independence.

  75. Then looking farther onwards I beheld A throng upon the shore of a great stream: Whereat I thus: "Sir!

  76. The blessed shore approaching then was heard So sweetly, "Tu asperges me," that I May not remember, much less tell the sound.

  77. A garrison of goodly site and strong Peschiera stands, to awe with front oppos'd The Bergamese and Brescian, whence the shore More slope each way descends.

  78. Then it behoves, that this must fall, within Three solar circles; and the other rise By borrow'd force of one, who under shore Now rests.

  79. An extensive tract near the sea-shore in Tuscany.

  80. As Iberia far, Far as Morocco either shore I saw, And the Sardinian and each isle beside Which round that ocean bathes.

  81. We on the utmost shore of the long rock Descended still to leftward.

  82. He thus: "Or ever to thy view the shore Be offer'd, satisfied shall be that wish, Which well deserves completion.

  83. I behold thy grandson, that becomes A hunter of those wolves, upon the shore Of the fierce stream, and cows them all with dread: Their flesh yet living sets he up to sale, Then like an aged beast to slaughter dooms.

  84. Forthwith that image vile of fraud appear'd, His head and upper part expos'd on land, But laid not on the shore his bestial train.

  85. He ran up as close as he dared to the shore and stopped his engine.

  86. At the shore end of the high railroad bridge upon which they stood was Jupiter, a tiny nest of white houses, almost lost among the glossy green palms and vivid blazing tropical flowers.

  87. The lunch finished and washed down by draughts of clear, cold water from the lake, the lads began searching around its sandy shore for deer signs.

  88. I've never had much to do with shore business.

  89. Our Walk has been along a more grand shore to-day than yesterday--Ailsa beside us all the way.

  90. David, by conquering Idumæa, became master of Elath and Esiongeber, two towns situated on the eastern shore of the Red-Sea.

  91. He went to bed, rose at dead of night, and, attended by Berwick, stole out at a back door, and went through the garden to the shore of the Medway.

  92. James had travelled with relays of coach horses along the southern shore of the Thames, and on the morning of the twelfth had reached Emley Ferry near the island of Sheppey.

  93. The ships, scattered and in great distress, regained the shore of Holland as they best might.

  94. Mackay was sent on shore first with the British regiments.

  95. Begging for life with unmanly cries, he was hurried to the shore and flung into the common gaol of Kirkaldy.

  96. During the first day the troops who had gone on shore had many discomforts to endure.

  97. At length the prisoners were put on shore and carried to an inn.

  98. The passengers were told that they must go on shore and be examined by a magistrate.

  99. As soon as Burnet was on shore he hastened to the Prince.


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    shore again; shore birds