coastguard's

The Australians, prudently, moved down the back streets below the coastguard's station and worked their way round, house by house, to the quay with its individually numbered wooden jetties.

Operation Sea Lion Cox, Richard 1974

_Christmas at Sea_ is a sad little tale of how, when all men are glad on board the labouring ship -- that stormy Christmas Day -- that she has at last cleared the dangerous headland and is safely out at sea, the lad who has left the old folk to run away to be a sailor can only see the lighted home behind the coastguard's house,

Robert Louis Stevenson Margaret Moyes Black

The coastguard's weather-beaten visage altered subtly.

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Passing westward from Kynance there are numberless features of the coast that might cause one to delay; and the coastguard's walk above the cliffs is rendered plain by the white stones that are so necessary at night.

The Cornwall Coast

They also rented the chief coastguard's cottage near Rye in Sussex for weekends, sometimes leaving the children there with their nanny while they went off on their adventurous travels to as yet untouristic places like Majorca and Andorra and Romania.

Mrs. Miniver 1939

She built a boat in the back garden of the coastguard's cottage the family rented for weekends.

Try Anything Twice 1938

A coastguard's boat could row within three yards of the entrance and never once suspect its being there, unless, at a very low tide, the sea clucked strangely from somewhere within.

Jim Davis John Masefield 1922

He picked up the coastguard's boat-hook (the man just grinned and looked sheepish; he made no attempt to fight with Marah) and thrust the boat back into the cave with half-a-dozen deft strokes.

Jim Davis John Masefield 1922

The coastguard's body was outside the cliff in full sunlight, giving a final thrust from the cliff wall.

Jim Davis John Masefield 1922

A week later the swallows fell to stringing themselves like beads along the coastguard's telephone-wire on the hill.

From a Cornish Window A New Edition Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903