At most, six feet of water awaited the engineer, who stood, peering shoreward and listening intently, oblivious to the stray missiles which whizzed past.
The bloodthirsty McGuffey stood at the break of the poop, and as he gazed shoreward he chuckled and rubbed his hands together.
A minute later he was clinging to the Jacob's ladder, the canoe shot in to the side of the vessel at his gruff command and passed on shoreward without missing a stroke of the paddle.
The barge drifts doomed, a plague-struck one, Shoreward in yawls the sailors fly.
And four launches at his bidding leaped impatient for the fray, Speeding shoreward where the Armstrong, grim and dark and ready, lay.
Mrs. Sebastian, Shirley and Mabel soon found themselves in the first boat and making shoreward at a good clip.
This the captain agreed to do, and ten minutes later the three were rushing shoreward in the steamer's powerful gasoline launch.
Mr. Willing, Colonel Ashton and Dick, who were peering shoreward from the deck of the steamer with straining eyes, looked anxiously at each other.
Yonder comes shoreward a great wave, towering above all its brethren.
And then, seeking safety, he dropped over the crest on to the steep shoreward face of the mountain.
The water was green and still around him, but shoreward it changed its colour.
Mingled with deep English curses, as he shoreward brought his prize!
Driven by their long-sweeping oars, they crept shorewarduntil their peaked bows grounded in the shallows.
Kenric brought his galley to theshoreward of her consorts, so that leaning over the bulwarks he might see this land of Gigha that was now his own.
Slowly they pushed shoreward through the shallow water, the men breaking the ice before them.
And at the same moment, in response to a low-voiced order, the canoe swung abruptly shoreward and grated upon the shingle of the beach.
Given a leg up by the whaler's crew, he wriggled astride the nearest longitudinal strip of timber and began his snail-like, shoreward crawl.
No one being on the landing to receive the party, we started walking in toward its shoreward end.
As they were crossing the smooth fiord ice, Broenlund's keen and practised eye saw far shoreward tiny specks of moving animals, and he shouted loudly "Nanetok!
Shoreward the outlook was as desolate as conditions were gloomy on shipboard.
Ceasing his clamor he swam shoreward a dozen strokes and then paused again to splash and shout.
He was even making progress shorewardin spite of that frantic splashing which wasted so much strength.
Instantly the searchlight was extinguished and the darkened vessel drifting slowly shoreward came to a stop beside the floating object.
In a moment the top of the tall whitened stake at the water’s edge was touched by the thin beam of light and it was evident that the mysterious craft was creeping shoreward in line with stake and chimney.
Constant wind pressure had closed the shoreward end of the big crack and a cautious crossing was made without difficulty.
Glancing shoreward as he leaned over the gunwale, he spied at the foot .
Many were the glances he cast shoreward as he rebaited his line, and, having thrown it again into the water, sat waiting until it should be time to fire the swivel.
It was all as natural and familiar--and so were the shoreward sights--as if there had been no break in my river life.
Launching the light dinghy, they paddled shoreward with the stream.
They said nothing further, and the Rowan drifted shoreward with an eddy of the tide, which had begun to turn.
A plume of vapor trailed away from her escape-pipe, for, as she moved slowly shoreward with the flood, the engines could not take all the steam it was prudent to raise.
It's blood-soaked in the middle, and there are blood-stains all along the shoreward half.
She laid one hand lightly on his arm, listening; high and heavenly sweet above the rushing noises of the sea they heard the singing of shoreward sky-larks above the grey cliff of Glenark.
Toward midday a sea-plane which had been releasing depth-bombs and hovering eagerly above the wide iridescent and spreading stain, sheered shoreward and shot along the coast.
The others turned and slowly swam shoreward till they could wade, when they approached our men and flung their weapons on the sand in token of surrender.
It is here that an overhanging and tip-tilted horn, a good sea-mark for Hatiheu, bursts naked from the verdure of the climbing forest, and breaks down shoreward in steep taluses and cliffs.
In the confusion of transfer-line operations, three sections of Battery C followed the LVTs shoreward in their open boats.
They had come back from their long day's fishing far out to sea and up and down the coast, and were leisurely wheeling, scouting, and sailing shoreward to their homes among the crags.
Ordinary events of an ordinary day might be suited to the shelter of the Storm Wall on the shoreward face in a breeze or rain, or the rocks beneath the wall when the weather was fine.
The Revenge sailed shoreward until those on board could discern the marching lines of breakers which tumbled across the shoal.
He could see that the gun had been fired from the vessel's shoreward battery.
Then he turned and raced shoreward for his life, with an acre of foam close behind him.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "shoreward" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: coastal; littoral; seaside; shore
