landwash

• “From the small opening he could see the tent, the tall palm trees that sheltered it from the fierce rays of the meridian sun and the tapering masts of the old schooner as she lay fast aground on the blistering strand, and the landwash lazily undulating against her stern.”

  Golden Days for Boys and Girls Volume XIII, No. 51: November 12, 1892

• “The ice in the middle, however, which had looked so sure from the landwash, proved to be "black" -- that is, very, very thin, though being salt-water ice, it was elastic.”

  Le Petit Nord or, Annals of a Labrador Harbour

• “The spectacle is all too suggestive for one who has always regarded the most attractive aspect of the sea to be viewed from the landwash.”

  Le Petit Nord or, Annals of a Labrador Harbour

• “The sea of the night before had smashed the ponderous covering of ice right to the landwash.”

  Adrift on an Ice-Pan

• “Miles of ice lay between them and me, the heavy sea was hurling great blocks on the landwash, and night was already falling, the wind blowing hard on shore.”

  Adrift on an Ice-Pan

• “The sea, rolling in during the previous night, had smashed the ponderous layer of surface ice right up to the landwash.”

  A Labrador Doctor The Autobiography of Wilfred Thomason Grenfell

• “From that point it was only four miles to the opposite shore, a saving of several miles if one could make it, instead of following the landwash round the bay.”

  A Labrador Doctor The Autobiography of Wilfred Thomason Grenfell

• “When at last snow enough fell for the sledges to haul the moss down to the landwash, it was dark all day around the North Cape.”

  A Labrador Doctor The Autobiography of Wilfred Thomason Grenfell

• “It was a reported lapse in some other portion of Ike's anatomy that had led me to scramble along the landwash to the cottage.”

  Labrador Days Tales of the Sea Toilers

• “As us ran in at last for t 'stage, us could see that Mother had hoisted t' flag t 'Company gived we t' year us bought furs for they, and that Grannie was out waiting for us on t 'landwash.”

  Labrador Days Tales of the Sea Toilers

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