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Examples
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Autumn, because full half a year had come and gone since the bird of prey lay dead upon the river-shore.
Our Mutual Friend 2004
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No sound in all the solitude was heard except his own quick panting as he burst from the shadows into the dim twilight of the river-shore.
The Coming of Conan The Cimmerian Howard, Robert E. 2003
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Nearer to the eye, the sullen flow of the tidal river Alde ebbed noiselessly from the muddy banks; and nearer still, lonely and unprosperous by the bleak water-side, lay the lost little port of Slaughden, with its forlorn wharfs and warehouses of decaying wood, and its few scattered coasting-vessels deserted on the oozy river-shore.
No Name 2003
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No sound in all the solitude was heard except his own quick panting as he burst from the shadows into the dim twilight of the river-shore.
The Coming Of Conan The Cimmerian Howard, Robert E. 2003
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No sound in all the solitude was heard except his own quick panting as he burst from the shadows into the dim twilight of the river-shore.
The Conan Chronicles Howard, Robert E. 1989
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Our pursuers had reached the river-shore, and a swarm of dark forms now threw themselves into the stream.
Margaret Tudor A Romance of Old St. Augustine Annie T. Colcock
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All the excitements of war are quadrupled by darkness; and as I rode along our outer lines at night, and watched the glimmering flames which at regular intervals starred the opposite river-shore, the longing was irresistible to cross the barrier of dusk, and see whether it were men or ghosts who hovered round those dying embers.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 84, October, 1864 Various
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On the river-shore crawfishes were lazily creeping over the gravel.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 22. October, 1878. Various
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Everybody on the river-shore was agreed in that opinion.
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Well, here on the river-shore, I begin; but I shall not tell when I stop.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 108, October, 1866 Various
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