along-shore

I wonder where Summertrees could pick up such a tender along-shore.

Redgauntlet 2008

The boy hesitated, looked reproachfully at the pilgrims as if they had involved him in a little difficulty, then said, folding a plait in the right leg of his trousers, ‘He gets his living along-shore.’

Our Mutual Friend 2004

Then, slowly and emphatically beating it all out with his open right hand on the palm of his left; ‘I, Roger Riderhood, Lime’us Hole, Waterside character, tell you, Lawyer Lightwood, that the man Jesse Hexam, commonly called upon the river and along-shore Gaffer, told me that he done the deed.

Our Mutual Friend 2004

El – Hidayyidah, compelled by an accident to creep along-shore like a Sambúk.

The Land of Midian 2003

Our eyes lifted over the rose-beds and the hot lawn and the weedy refuse of the dog-days along-shore.

The Great Gatsby 2003

She had been gathering marsh-rosemary along-shore.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 82, August, 1864 Various

Of course, although we were running down under easy sail the engine-fires were ready banked up, so that it didn't take us long to get up steam; and we were soon round like a shot, and retracing our way, right in the face of the wind, after a large dhow which we could see stealing up along-shore and hugging the land.

The Penang Pirate and, The Lost Pinnace

They rowed along the channel between Anastasia Island and the main shore; then landed, struck across the country on foot, traversed plains and marshes, readied the sea towards night, and searched along-shore till ten o'clock to find their comrades who had gone before.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 73, November, 1863 Various

We had the placid glide, the fleet dash, the wild career, the pause, the landing, the agreeable interlude of a portage, and the unburdened stampede along-shore.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 62, December, 1862 Various

One of Gourgues's boats, a very large one, had been brought along-shore.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 85, November, 1864 Various