sea-bank

But when they came, all thanking God, to the pitch and slope of the sea-bank, leading on towards Watchett town, and where my horse had shied so, there the little boy jumped up, and clapped his hands at the water; and there (as Benita said) they met their fate, and could not fly it.

Lorna Doone Richard Doddridge 2004

I was the other day talking on the sea-bank with certain Venetians; and thither comes the bauble, and, by this hand, she falls me thus about my neck —

Othello, the Moore of Venice 2004

Here we could see the townlet covering a low point projecting into the Sharm; a few large and some small tenements formed the body, whilst the head was the little Burj built, some fourteen years ago, upon the tall sea-bank to the north.

The Land of Midian 2003

He went one morning by moon-light, and, coming to the sea-bank, undressed himself, and cast in his nets.

The Arabian Nights Entertainments - Volume 01 Anonymous

It may be restored to us in broken glimpses, in little stirrings and ripples on the face of the water, in rumours and whispers among the margin-reeds, in sighings of the wind across the sea-bank.

The Complex Vision John Cowper Powys 1917

On the sea-bank of yellow crumbling earth lizards flashed about me in the sunshine.

By the Ionian Sea George Gissing 1880

He was born, he said, at Walpole, in Norfolk, on the old Roman sea-bank, between the Wash and the deep Fens.

The Hermits Kingsley, Charles, 1819-1875 1878

When they had landed on the deep seashore and a sea-bank sheltered from the wind, they strewed their beds, and their hands were busy with firewood.

Theocritus Bion and Moschus Rendered into English Prose 300 BC-260 BC Theocritus 1878

Pray for the peace of Zion, and pity those poor things who would be content to go from one sea-bank to the other, to be in your place to-day.

The Covenants And The Covenanters Covenants, Sermons, and Documents of the Covenanted Reformation Various 1876

"Where are you?" shouted Dick, who was ahead now and hurrying along the track that struck off to the big reed-beds and then away over the fen to the sea-bank.

Dick o' the Fens A Tale of the Great East Swamp George Manville Fenn 1870