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• “The last Saturday night in September, Timothy Farris shut down his Godfather's Pizza restaurant here in this small Gulf Coast beach town, a victim, he says, of the dismal tourist slump that accompanied oil and tar balls washing ashore from the giant BP spill.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Bumpy Start to BP Fund Puzzles Gulf

• “And ... that's all; I put my eggs ashore from the boat at Dawson.”

  THE ONE THOUSAND DOZEN

• “Daughtry even encouraged this exchange of facial amenities for the purpose of deterring him from ever hoping to win ashore to the village of his birth.”

  CHAPTER III

• “When I sail, they sail; when I remain ashore, they remain ashore.”

  Chapter 19

• “Joan was standing up in the stern-sheets, reiterating her good-byes -- a slim figure of a woman in the tight-fitting jacket she had worn ashore from the wreck, the long-barrelled Colt's revolver hanging from the loose belt around her waist, her clear-cut face like a boy's under the Stetson hat that failed to conceal the heavy masses of hair beneath.”

  Chapter 16

• “It began to happen when six men came ashore from the Search, with heavy outfits, as though they had come to stay, and quartered themselves in Neegah's igloo.”

  THE SUNLANDERS

• “The men who came ashore from the steamers were newcomers.”

  The Mad God

• “I remember the day when we were on the beach at Tulagi with Jerry, and when his brother came ashore from the Eugenie in a whaleboat.”

  CHAPTER XXXIV

• “Half swimming, half wading, with my head just out of water and avoiding splashing, I succeeded in putting about a hundred feet between myself and the spot where the Chinese had begun to wade ashore from the junk.”

  YELLOW HANDKERCHIEF

• “Even then, the driftwood I burn for heat will probably be washed ashore from a wrecked Chinese container ship.”

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