sea-town

I keep going, past the last whalers, sea-town inns, and verge-of-the-afterlife churches clergied by sailors the ocean spewed back, I reach the harbor where townsmen jettison the cargo of tea leaves, I travel waters where the Armada lies foundered from cannon breach and scupper.

The Wide Receiver Declares Himself Ready 2007

I keep going, past the last whalers, sea-town inns, and verge-of-the-afterlife churches clergied by sailors the ocean spewed back, I reach the harbor where townsmen jettison the cargo of tea leaves, I travel waters where the Armada lies foundered from cannon breach and scupper.

The Wide Receiver Declares Himself Ready 2007

And shadows came flocking into the harbour, from all sides, all the shades and spirits and hauntings of that one haunted night: the past folk of Trewissick from all the centuries that the little sea-town had ever seen, focused into one black point of time.

Greenwitch Susan Cooper 2002

And shadows came flocking into the harbour, from all sides, all the shades and spirits and hauntings of that one haunted night: the past folk of Trewissick from all the centuries that the little sea-town had ever seen, focused into one black point of time.

Greenwitch Susan Cooper 2002

And shadows came flocking into the harbour, from all sides, all the shades and spirits and hauntings of that one haunted night: the past folk of Trewissick from all the centuries that the little sea-town had ever seen, focused into one black point of time.

Greenwitch Susan Cooper 2002

He remembered how, in the little sea-town in which his father had once dwelt, the fishermen came at last to love and respect the kind minister who worked so patiently to raise them out of their slough of ignorance and degradation, and that whenever his father walked among them, they flocked about him to listen to his words and counsel, and watch for his look or smile of approval.

Culm Rock The Story of a Year: What it Brought and What it Taught Glance Gaylord

He remembered a little sea-town, where they had lived before dwelling in Hastings, how wretched and dirty and ignorant the fishermen were, and what a great change for the better came over the place through his father's efforts.

Culm Rock The Story of a Year: What it Brought and What it Taught Glance Gaylord

They would keep wide of the dangerous currents of Corryvreckan, and by and by they would sail into the harbor of Oban, the beautiful sea-town where Sheila first got a notion of the greatness of the world lying outside of her native island.

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 12, No. 32, November, 1873 Various

It has the peculiar atmosphere of a sea-town, but why, precisely, it is difficult to say.

Devon, Its Moorlands, Streams and Coasts Rosalind Northcote

He worked with papa in the old sea-town where we lived, and he's come down to work here at Culm among our fish-folk.

Culm Rock The Story of a Year: What it Brought and What it Taught Glance Gaylord