With the fall of Acre, in 1291, the Christians were driven definitely from the shores of Syria, causing intense grief and indignation throughout Europe.
Templars turned their arms against the Latin princes of Greece, ravaged cruelly the shores of Thrace and the Morea, and returned with immense booty, having aroused enmities which were an element in their downfall.
The eastern quarter of Tanis was dedicated to Ashtoreth as was a temple near by on the shores of the Serbonian lake.
He prefers the more sluggish bayous, or the streams whose shores are still wild.
These, at length, go down; and the "floating palace" moves on in stately grandeur between the picturesque shores of the Mississippi.
A hat of the costly grass from the shores of the South Sea crowns his well-oiled locks, and thus you have the "bar-keeper of the boat.
How sweet was it to study the many novel forms that presented themselves to my eyes on the shores of that magnificent stream!
As the Hindoo by the shores of his sacred river, I kneel upon thy banks, and pour forth my soul in wild adoration!
Not upon the Rhine, with its castled rocks--not upon the shores of that ancient inland sea--not among the Isles of the Ind.
Alternately the boat approaches both shores of the river ("coasts" they are called).
The species on the two shores of the same ocean, or the two coasts of the same continent, are different, being isolated east and west by barriers of deep sea or of land, and north and south by temperature.
This tree grows from the borders of Florida to the shores of the Great Lakes.
The forest-walled shores of the river grew mightier in their stillness and their grandeur, and the vast silence of unpeopled places brooded over the world.
The gray, purple, and brown shores of the roadstead widened and dropped lower, and azure uplands shone beyond their frowning brows.
The shores behind them turned from brown to purple, and from purple to azure.
On either side the brown shores fell back, and the dancing waters widened and widened.
The shores were portioned off in strips, so that each ship might have a place for drying-stages, whereon to cure its fish.
Also the salt-works which are on the Shores of the Sea were held in common, and those who dwelt nearest to them were wont to pay tribute to the Lords of Mayapan with salt which they had got.
On arriving at the shores of the lake he learned the fate that had befallen Diaz de Velasco.
It is doubtful whether any other single navigator in history applied names which are still in use to so many capes, bays and islands, upon the shores of the habitable globe, as Flinders did.
THIS PLACE from which the Gulf and its Shores were first surveyed on 26.
Wind failing, very little progress was made till noon, and at sunset the shoresappeared to be closing round.
Consequently, it was all the more astonishing to behold this great sheet of blue water broadening out to shores overlooked by high hills, and extending northward further than the eye could penetrate.
All the points were exactly determined, and the appearance of the shores depicted.
Very few aboriginals were seen upon the shores of the two gulfs, and these only through a telescope.
The shoresof the Gulf of Carpentaria have undergone a minute examination.
Flinders, as we have seen, laid it down as a guiding principle that he would make so complete a survey of the shores visited by him as to leave little for anybody to do after him.
Another Celtic myth of the same type is to be found on the shores of the Firth of Forth.
Many other British bards found a refuge on the shoresof Britain the Less.
In 1758 a British army was landed upon the shores of Brittany with the object of securing for British merchant ships safety in the navigation of the Channel and of creating a diversion in favour of the German forces, then our allies.
It was situated where now a piece of water, the Etang de Laval, washes the desolate shores of the Bay of Trepasses--though another version of the tale has it that it stood in the vast basin which now forms the Bay of Douarnenez.
Accompanied by forty monks, he crossed the Channel and landed on the shores of the Bay of Saint-Brieuc, a savage and deserted district.
On the shores of the Channel are numerous grottos or caverns which the Bretons call houles, and these are supposed to harbour a distinct class of fairy.
There can be little doubt but that this hot south-east wind sweeps across the Mediterranean from the shores of Africa.
China proper, but the peninsula of Liao-tung and also the western shores of the Gulf of Liao-tung are in Manchuria.
Tibet (on the shores of the Tengri-nor) and in the western portion of the Tian-shan.
Hang-chow bay, the shores are flat and alluvial save where the Shan-tung peninsula juts out.
The boundary line between the provinces of Cheh-kiang and Kiang-su crosses its blue waters, and its shores are divided among thirteen prefectures.
The shores of the lake are flat on the north and south sides, but its other banks are flanked by undulating hills, which command beautiful and extensive views.
They are to be found, too, among the dusky race whose mothers told them to their children long before pale-face eyes looked covetously upon American shores and pale-face powder sent terror into the hearts of brown-skinned braves.
Yet the world outside the shores of this country are pouring scorn on the degraded name of drunken Ireland.
But the demand for our literary activities is far wider than the shores of Ireland.
The marshal attacked the archduke in his camp of Caldiero after having seized Verona by night, and had fought him on the shores of the Tagliamento; he was now approaching Marmont, who occupied the Styrian Alps.
At last he accompanied Alexander to the shores of the Niemen, waiting upon the bank until his friend and ally had reached the farther shore.
The Austrian general had not yet counted on the irresistible impetuosity of the torrent of men, horses, and artillery, which the island of Lobau continued to vomit on the shores of the Danube.
The cannon-balls of the enemy began to rain on the shores of Lobau, but the space was too vast to permit the Austrian batteries to sweep the interior.
They occupied, however, both shores of the stream, when, night falling, caused the combat to cease.
The shores of Lake Jipe, where I pitched my tent, were quite flat and separated from the open water of the lake by a wide belt of swamp growth.
This unlucky number perhaps influenced my fortunes, for I returned to Taveta empty handed and fever stricken, after a stay on the shoresof the lake lasting some days.
The shores were marked up with some very large tracks, but fresh signs had long since ceased to excite in me anything more than a passing interest.
This white plain reaches nearly to theshores of Ngiri Swamp on the north, and to the east it is bounded by a wall of densely thick bush.
The first of these excursions was made to the shores of Lake Jipe, six hours' march from Taveta, for the purpose of shooting hippos.
It is seldom that those shores are visited by storms, but when the wind does blow it makes ample amends for its usual state of quiescence.
As Raymond stood on the aftercastle of the Lion, watching the fast-receding shores of Old England, his spirit sank within him.
There is no place in the world, perhaps, where the air has so exhilarating an effect as on the shores of the Bosphorus.
This beautiful stream is very unique in its characteristics, for while the waters have the depth, brilliancy, and life of the sea, its shores are cultivated and wooded like the banks of a river.
The White City which recently rose on the shores of Lake Michigan fitly typified its growing culture as well as its capacity for great achievement.
He who believes that even the hordes of recent immigrants from southern Italy are drawn to these shores by nothing more than a dull and blind materialism has not penetrated into the heart of the problem.
On the rocky shores of Lake Superior were concealed copper mines rivaled only by those of Montana, and iron fields which now[129:1] furnish the ore for the production of eighty per cent of the pig iron of the United States.
If the coast of California be placed along the coast of Spain, Charleston, South Carolina, would fall near Constantinople; the northern shores of Lake Superior would touch the Baltic, and New Orleans would lie in southern Italy.
Across the Pacific looms Asia, no longer a remote vision and a symbol of the unchanging, but borne as by mirage close to our shores and raising grave questions of the common destiny of the people of the ocean.
The geologist traces patiently the shores of ancient seas, maps their areas, and compares the older and the newer.
If the ships of Columbus had engaged in a profitable coastwise traffic between Palos and Cadiz they might have saved sail cloth, but their keels would never have grated on the shores of a New World.
Upon its surface myriads of momentary ripples would play, or opposing winds, called into existence by similar disturbances in the air, would force it into waves, making the shores resound with their breaking surge.
The wandering Scandinavians had reached the shores of America first in the vicinity of Nantucket, and had given the name of Vinland to the region extending from beyond Boston to the south of New York.
They pressed hard after their leader, looking neither right nor left, while he carefully followed the trail; and one hour's tramping brought them to the shores of Millinokett Lake.
A bright halo of hope and happiness spread a soft glow of enchantment over ship and sail, sea and sky, so vivid, so far reaching, that it even touched and tinted the distant shores of that far off, rock bound coast of Alaska.
What a trip it was, from inland California east and north to the shores of Lake Superior!
They were too filled with admiration for the vast industry their country had created on the shoresof the inland seas, and too full of pride in the achievement.
In consequence of a vision seen in a dream he had the divinity brought from Sinope, on the shores of Pontus, to this town.
Bare-foot and begging her way, she started for the south-east and reached the shores of the Red Sea.
We had reached near five leagues above Point Lowly, at the entrance of the narrow part of the gulph; but the shores were low on both sides, and abreast of the ship not so much as four miles asunder.
In the woods are the kangaroo, the emu or cassowary, paroquets, and a variety of small birds; the mud banks are frequented by ducks and some black swans, and the shores by the usual sea fowl common in New South Wales.
In the north-eastern part was a small lake of a rose colour, the water of which, as I was informed by Mr. Thistle who visited it, was so saturated with salt that sufficient quantities were crystallised near the shores to load a ship.
Between these extremes a large bight in the south coast was formed; but it is entirely exposed to southern winds, and the shores are mostly cliffy.
This seemed extraordinary when, except at Cape Donington, no local attraction of importance had been found in the shores of Port Lincoln, where the stone is the same.
The number of smokes rising from theshores of this wide, open place induced me to give it the name of SMOKY BAY.
He had rowed and walked along the shore as far as Memory Cove, revisited Thistle's Island, and examined the shores of the isles in Thorny Passage, but could find neither any traces of our lost people nor fragments of the wreck.
On the 23rd, the wind being fair, we ran upwards between shores which were sometimes steep, but generally of a gradual ascent, and well clothed with grass and wood.
The shores at the head and on the west side are more rocky than sandy.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "shores" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
