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Where the rainfall is seasonal, the inlet of such a lagoon is open during the rainy season and is closed by wave action and long-shore drift during the dry season.

A Line Drawn in the Sand Heather McDougal 2008

Where the rainfall is seasonal, the inlet of such a lagoon is open during the rainy season and is closed by wave action and long-shore drift during the dry season.

Archive 2008-05-01 Heather McDougal 2008

In fact, the process of coastal erosion has historically been an issue on the North Sea coast, and relates variously to the relatively soft coastal geology and long-shore drift along the coast.

Unthreaded #6 « Climate Audit 2007

It seemed as though we had been forgotten by the world, belonged to nobody, would get nowhere; it seemed that, as if bewitched, we would have to live for ever and ever in that inner harbor, a derision and a byword to generations of long-shore loafers and dishonest boatmen.

Youth, by Joseph Conrad 2004

On my arrival there I went on shore and waited on the admiral, Sir R. Curtis, whom I found walking, what he termed his long-shore quarter-deck, the platform.

A Sailor of King George Frederick Hoffman

Contrary winds continued to baffle all Captain Veal's seamanship, and afforded his passenger opportunities for a spirited protest concerning the need of some regulation both of the charges of long-shore boatmen, and of the manners of captains in the Royal Navy.

Henry Fielding: a Memoir G. M. Godden

Jean could not support a fishing smack by himself, and gave up the distant voyages, confining himself to the long-shore fishing, and disposing of his oysters, crayfish and prawns as best he could in the more remote villages.

A Loose End and Other Stories S. Elizabeth Hall

On a sudden eight bells rings out sharply from the forecastle head, and you spring back from your world of fancy as hurriedly as Cinderella returned to her rags when long-shore midnight chimed.

Morocco S.L. Bensusan

Collins, in his black wig and his 'long-shore hat, an' begins to squint over the starn to nor'west'ard, "Jacobs, my lad," whispers he to me,

The International Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 1, August 1850 of Literature, Science and Art. Various

"Why," says he, "you confounded long-shore picked-up son of a green-grocer, what _are_ you after?" an 'he takes the article a slap with his larboard-flipper, as sent it flying to leeward like a puff of smoke.

The International Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 1, August 1850 of Literature, Science and Art. Various