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Examples
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With new courage, therefore, I pressed on, and in two days arrived at a wretched hamlet on the sea-shore.
Chapter 24 2010
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With new courage, therefore, I pressed on, and in two days arrived at a wretched hamlet on the sea-shore.
Chapter 7 2010
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It makes the works of God a mere mockery and deception; I would almost as soon believe with the old and ignorant cosmogonists, that fossil shells had never lived, but had been created in stone so as to mock the shells now living on the sea-shore.
January Books 5) The Wee Free Men, by Terry Pratchett liberaliser 2010
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Where a long estuary runs into the land, an estuary with a rocky bottom, you do get just what she had spoken of-the sea-shore in the middle of the land.
Movie Night 2010
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"As if I knew what was up there, round the bend, with the river and the sea-shore in the middle of the land, like."
Movie Night 2010
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The novel tells the story of a father and son traveling to a sea-shore in a post-apocalyptic world.
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They heard how a dog barked among the rocks on the sea-shore.
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But Helgi bade men fear naught, nor take in any sail, but rather hoist every rag higher than heretofore; but little did they miss of foundering or ever they made land; then came Sigrun, daughter of King Hogni, down on to the beach with a great army, and turned them away thence to a good haven called Gnipalund; but the landsmen see what has befallen and come down to the sea-shore.
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For when with due honours they had buried him also hard by the seer, they cast themselves down in helplessness on the sea-shore silently, closely wrapped up, and took no thought for meat or drink; and their spirit drooped in grief, for all hope of return was gone.
The Argonautica 2008
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The gold fell unheeded on the pavement, for the old man ran to observe the course which was taken by his master, who turned to the left down a small and broken path, which gained the sea-shore through a cleft in the rock, and led to a sort of cove where, in former times, the boats of the castle were wont to be moored.
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