surf-line

The Ghost lay half-a-mile beyond the surf-line of a lonely beach.

Chapter 16 2010

So clearly could one see cañon, gorge, and precipice, and the shadows that lie therein, that one looked unconsciously for the white surf-line and bellowing caverns where the sea charges on the land.

Chapter 17 2010

Thence going forward they ran past Meliboea, escaping a stormy beach and surf-line.

The Argonautica 2008

Along the surface of the sea long lines of pelicans pursue a lumbering flight; graceful terns (sea-swallows) skim the waves; a great blue heron stalks across the hard sand, majestic, solitary and shy of man's approach; and dainty little beach-birds, piping plover in snowy white and drab, glide rapidly past the surf-line.

Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 26, August, 1880 of Popular Literature and Science Various

There suddenly sprang into threatening proximity before us, a force of at least fifteen odd thousand men, with a wide surf-line of white, red, and gold lettered banners, less than a mile away.

Khartoum Campaign, 1898 or the Re-Conquest of the Soudan Bennet Burleigh

Thence going forward they ran past Meliboea, escaping a stormy beach and surf-line.

The Argonautica Apollonius Rhodius

Far beneath them, the waves tossed themselves tumultuously in midsea, or rolled a white surf-line upon the long beaches, or foamed against the rocky cliffs with a roar that was thunderous, in the lower world; although it became a gentle murmur, like the voice of a baby half asleep, before it reached the ears of Perseus.

Types of Children's Literature Walter Barnes

The Ghost lay half a mile beyond the surf-line of a lonely beach.

Chapter 16 1904

So clearly could one see ca$on, gorge, and precipice, and the shadows that lie therein, that one looked unconsciously for the white surf-line and bellowing caverns where the sea charges on the land.

Chapter 17 1904

We were fairly afloat outside the surf-line, both of us very red in the face.

A Poor Man's House Stephen Sydney Reynolds 1900