Use shore in a sentence
Sentences ending with shore
- Such was the youth who first sprang on shore. [10]
- We'll wait for you when we get to shore. [5]
- The ferry-boat which would convey them to the gardens of Polybius started from the Agathodaemon Canal, an enlarged branch of the Nile, which connected the lake with the royal harbor and the Mediterranean; they had, therefore, to walk some distance along the shore. [10]
- Without uttering a word in reply, Ledscha stepped back into the boat, but Hanno plied the oars with the utmost caution and guided the skiff without the slightest sound away from the island to an open part of the water far distant from any shore. [10]
- There was a wonderful light on all the inner bay, as we put off from shore. [4]
- The cold morning wind was blowing light mists over the absolutely barren shore. [10]
- The place of which Bias had told him was situated on a lofty portion of the shore. [10]
- Brigond was considering whether it were better, with his scant chart, to attempt the bay, or to take small boats and make for the shore. [11]
- Off to the west from this point is the long sand line to Cape Henlopen, fourteen miles away, and the Delaware shore. [4]
- As daylight came we passed into a little sheltered cove, and sank with exhaustion on the shore. [11]
Short sentences using shore
- He floundered towards the shore. [11]
- She reached the shore. [11]
- The shore was deserted. [11]
- The Atlantic shore and Europe? [4]
Sentences containing shore two or more times
- These policemen follow the executive officer's boat from shore to ship and from ship to shore and watch his dark maneuvres with a vigilant eye. [5]
- And at this point, also, begins the pilot's paradise: a wide river hence to New Orleans, abundance of water from shore to shore, and no bars, snags, sawyers, or wrecks in his road. [5]
- On the right, or eastern shore, where the Arabs were constructing the raft, spread solid ground-fields through which lay the road to Doomiat; on the other shore, near which the boat was lying, the bog extended for a long way. [10]
- At one spot on this shore rises a vast mass of detached rock, separated at low tide from the shore by irregular bowlders and a tiny thread of water. [4]
- We had mountains on the Missouri shore and heavy timber on the Illinois side, and the channel was down the Missouri shore at that place, so we warn't afraid of anybody running across us. [5]
- It laughs and it shines, it must roam and roam, And travel from shore to shore, Till I go forth and bring it home, And house it within my door Row along, row along home, ci, ci! [11]
- It laughs and it shines, it must roam and roam, And travel from shore to shore, Till I get me forth and bring it home, And house it within my door-- Row along, row along home, ci, ci! [11]
- It is there, it is here, it must roam and roam, And wander from shore to shore, Till I travel the hills and bring it home, And enter and close my door-- Row along, row along home, ci, ci! [11]
- It is there, it is here, it must roam and roam, And wander from shore to shore, Till I go forth and bring it home, And enter and close my door Row along, row along home, ci ci! [11]
- The sea of history was not driven spasmodically from shore to shore as previously. [2]
More example sentences with the word shore in them
- Now, you set your foot on shore In Novo Orbe; here's the rich Peru: And there within, sir, are the golden mines, Great Solomon's Ophir!---- B. Jonson The supper at Col. [5]
- But no; he would crowd up around a point, hugging the shore with affection, and then say: 'The slack water ends here, abreast this bunch of China-trees; now we cross over. [5]
- He wandered on without thinking; the street in which he presently found himself must no doubt lead to the sea, and if he could once find himself on the shore he could not fail to make his way to Lochias. [10]
- Even a corpse with its back bare of flesh to the bone has received the last lashes of a sentence, and was then buried in the mud of the shore with no religious ceremony. [11]
- Many a time, with her mother, she had sat upon the shore at St. Aubin's Bay, and looked out where white sails fluttered like the wings of restless doves. [11]
- Suddenly, a being with a red shirt, with loose prairie kind of hat, knee- boots, having metal clamps, strikes out from the shore, running on the tops of the moving logs till he reaches the jam. [11]
- Ordering the sailors who were preparing to accompany him to remain on shore, he stretched the sail with a practised hand, and ran out towards the mouth of the harbour. [10]
- She caught it while I was up country trapping on the North Shore of the Erie; caught it in the timber a couple of miles from our dug-out--or it might have been four, she isn't certain which. [5]
- So the wave which was to have wafted them on to the shore of Elysium has just failed of landing them, and back they have been drawn into the desolate ocean to meet no more on earth. [6]
- The boat in which Carmen had been placed was swamped not far from shore, but she managed to lay hold of a piece of drifting wreckage, and began to fight steadily and easily landward. [11]
- She and Fabian, when the boat left the shore, went to one corner of the stern, leaving Carnac and Junia in the bow. [11]
- Only half conscious what she was doing, she left the boat; but her slender foot had scarcely touched the land when a tall figure emerged from the thicket near the shore and approached her through the darkness. [10]
- But to the west is a shore, and on it stands a fort and a few detached houses. [11]
- Customs officers who were watching the craft from the shore or from their boats put down their marine glasses contentedly when they saw and heard the salutes. [11]
- If suspicious characters were seen about Port Henry, or if any such landed from the steamers on the shore of Lake Champlain, it was impossible to identify them with these invaders who were never seen. [4]
- The two men were on an island with a shore of fire. [11]
- Sea and shore were in a kind of truce, and the ocean south wind brought cool refreshment but no incentive. [4]
- Here and there were groups of river-drivers and their foremen, prying twisted heaps of logs from the rocks or the shore into the water. [11]
- Upon the shore were bustle, cheerfulness, and song, until every canoe was launched, and then the band of warriors got in, and presently were away in the haze. [11]
- No one showed weariness, and when the dawn broke slow and soft over the eastern hills, I motioned my good boatmen towards the shore, and landed safely. [11]
- And presently, as we strayed down the shore we came upon a strange sight, the same being a huge fort rising from the waterside, all overgrown with brush and saplings and tall weeds. [9]
- The next morning we started back to the old camp, but while out a long way from shore, so great a storm came up that we dared not try to land. [5]
- Reaching the shore, we marched together, I singing the refrain of an old French song as we went, En roulant, ma boule roulant, En roulant, ma boule so attracting the attention of the Indians. [11]
- At this point we have an episode: Beside the shore of the brook sat a young man, about eighteen or twenty, who seemed to be reading some favorite book, and who had a remarkably noble countenance--eyes which betrayed more than a common mind. [5]
- Near the shore we found "Cook's Monument"--only a cocoanut stump, four feet high and about a foot in diameter at the butt. [5]
- In the night we anchored a mile from shore. [5]
- He made his way to the veranda, and was about to leave for the shore, when he heard a step behind him. [11]
- Then a handkerchief waved a greeting from the vessel to the men on shore, but the hand that held it was a woman's. [10]
- Just as a wave poises at its height before breaking upon the shore, it hung at every pulse-beat, and then seemed to fall over with a sickening thud. [11]
- Its mile-breadth of water seemed an ocean to them, in the shadowy twilight, and the vague riband of trees on the further shore, the verge of a continent which surely none but they had ever seen before. [5]
- He wrung the water out of his clothes, and ran softly up the shore. [11]
- The boat which was to convey him over to it lay ready in the little flotilla, where a magnificently equipped galley had just been moored to the shore, undoubtedly the one that had brought the guests from Pelusium hither. [10]
- On one hand was the enemy, on the other the water, with the shore half a mile distant. [11]
- While this conversation was taking place, Melissa and her companion had reached the shore of the lake, the large inland sea which washed the southern side of the city and afforded anchorage for the Nile-boats. [10]
- The gunner, too, was sick unto death, but "hope of trucking" kept him on his feet,--a Yankee, it should seem, when he first touched the shore of New England. [3]
- One night he was sending his weather prognostications to Brisbane, when a stranger entered from the shore. [11]
- The old sailor was pointing to the shore, and speaking in bad French. [11]
- Beaver Dam Rock was out in the middle of the river now, and throwing a prodigious 'break;' it used to be close to the shore, and boats went down outside of it. [5]
- This gentleman's home was on the main shore in its neighborhood. [5]
- This time she was on a great warship, in a storm which was driving towards a rocky shore. [11]
- In appearance he was not now like the "Seigneur" who sang to the sailors on the Antoine when she was fighting for the shore of Gaspe; nevertheless there was that in him which would keep him much the same man to the end. [11]
- So when it was good and dark I slid out from shore before moonrise and paddled over to the Illinois bank--about a quarter of a mile. [5]
- Ahead of them was another shore, and they reached this at last. [11]
- For within the walls of the city, and on the shore of Beauport, protected by its mud flats--a splendid moat--the French more than held their own. [11]
- Restrained by the walls of stone from being destructive, it seems to rave at its own impotence, and when it reaches the whirlpool it is like a hungry animal, returning and licking the shore for the prey it has missed. [4]
- There was Richambeau walking away, telescope under arm, even as the other 12-pounder on shore replied impudently to the gun he had fired. [11]
- If, however, he walked along the shore at bathing times he might be enlightened, and he would see besides a certain simplicity of social life which sophisticated Europe has no parallel for. [4]
- She and her virgins ran to these flames, while Horus led the youths to battle against Typhon on the opposite shore. [10]
- Many of the vessels could scarcely be said to be launched at all; they sank like lead, close to the shore. [4]
- He brought his vessel down the coast a little distance, put a rope about him and in the wild surf made for the shore. [11]
- It was a very large island, and used to be out toward mid-stream; but it is joined fast to the main shore now, and has retired from business as an island. [5]
- It is always very cold on that lake shore in the night, but we had plenty of blankets and were warm enough. [5]
- The walk, as usually taken, is two or three miles along the bold, rocky shore, but an ambitious pedestrian may continue it to the light on Point Judith. [4]
- Here they were upon a now hostile shore without food, fire, shelter, and weapons; their situation was desperate even yet. [11]
- Can we shore up the timbers--or shall we have to begin to build a new house? [9]
- She washed him up the shore like behemoth, and left him gaping. [11]
- A cheer went up from the men on the shore, and the people who were gathering on the bridges, too late to be of service. [11]
- The abbess would undertake to give them all a passage on board the ship that was awaiting her, and to set them on shore wherever he might choose. [10]
- On it went, under the wide spans of the old wooden, covered bridge, swirling around the great rocks on which the piers stood, spreading away below in shallows, and taking the shadows of a row of maples that lined the green shore. [4]
- Midway between the two extremities, on the eastern shore of the lake, is a valley between two hills, which come down to the very edge of the lake, leaving only room enough for a road between their base and the water. [6]
- His eyes were turned to the shore, and hers were fixed on him. [11]
- As, during the trip, they had kept up their courage by swallowing the most fiery wine, Philotas had staggered on shore with difficulty and then been dragged forward by the others. [10]
- As we crept toward the shore, in the thick darkness, a blinding glory of white electric light burst suddenly from our forecastle, and lit up the water and the warehouses as with a noon-day glare. [5]
- They had scarcely touched the shore when the click of a musket was heard, and a "Qui-va-la? [11]
- She turned irresolutely to the shore whence she came: the dogs were lapping the water, and howling there. [4]
- She turned them to the sea-instinctively towards that point on the shore where she thought it likely Michel might be; as though by looking she might find comfort and support in this hard hour. [11]
- When we got to the last place where the pilot could land, the waves were running like hills to the shore, and no boat could live between the ship and the point. [11]
- I paddled over to the Illinois shore, and drifted down most a half a mile doing it. [5]
- But she begin to talk to them so sof', and to pull ver' steady, and at last she get them shaping to the shore. [11]
- The river-driver chose to spend his idle hours in crude, rough sprightliness; the salmon-fisher loved to lie upon the shore and listen to the village story-teller,--almost official when successful,--who played upon the credulity and imagination of his listeners. [11]
- The boat came to shore and was tied up for the night. [5]
- We shall have to run the chances of rifles along the shore at a range something short, but we have done that before, at the Barricades, eh, Carbourd? [11]
- Presently Orion seemed to rise out of the clouds, as a diver comes up from the water, and make for the shore of the island on which George and the other two seemed to be standing. [10]
- Come with it to my shore, as of old the priest of far-darting Apollo carried his rage and anguish to the margin of the loud-roaring sea. [6]
- He moved down to Foulik Pasha, and, taking his arm, urged him towards the shore with a whispered word. [11]
- I had expected to find the bustle on shore greater, but what a throng of ships and boats, masts and smoke-stacks I saw! [10]
- There was nothing to do, but to turn back, while from the shore I was reviled by soldiers and by the rabble. [11]
- My object was to cross the river softly, skirt the Levis shore, pass the Isle of Orleans, and so steal down the river. [11]
- Knowledge--it excites prejudices to call it science--is advancing as irresistibly, as majestically, as remorselessly as the ocean moves in upon the shore. [6]
- It is time to be old, To take in sail:-- The god of bounds, Who sets to seas a shore, Came to me in his fatal rounds, And said: "No more! [6]
- When you get tired of them in the temples and take a trip on the river, you find idol giants, flashily painted, stretched out side by side on the shore. [5]
- Poor wreck of time the wave has cast To find a peaceful shore at last, Once glorying in thy gilded name And freighted deep with hopes of fame, Thy leaf is moistened with a tear, The first for many a long, long year! [6]
- From time to time she shut her eyes as tightly as she could, for she fancied she could see a crimson glare, and she longed for light in that hour as a drowning man longs for the shore. [10]
- Xavier had the tiller now, and the men were straining at the oars to send the boat across the current towards the nearer western shore. [9]
- It was flood tide when Daniel Quilp sat himself down in the ferry to cross to the opposite shore. [12]
- Have spent the three days partly in walking about, partly in enjoying social privileges, and largely in idling around the magnificent garden at Hutt, a little distance away, around the shore. [5]
- It shapes our thoughts for us;--the waves of conversation roll them as the surf rolls the pebbles on the shore. [6]
- He got all those pebbles on the sea shore, abreast the ship, but professes to have gathered them from one of our party. [5]
- A week after this, while Noakes was carousing with a sailor crowd on shore, at noonday, Capt. [5]
- She looked again, this time towards an unpeopled shore. [9]
- At the shore this same little grey figure bade Mattingley good-bye with a quavering voice. [11]
- The lower down they sailed, the denser were the thickets of papyrus on the shore. [10]
- For two hours they had followed the shore of the glistening, blue-green sea, [The Red Sea--in Hebrew and Coptic the reedy sea--is of a lovely blue green color. [10]
- Still another of these young ladies I saw for the first time in an open boat, tossing on the ocean ground-swell, a mile or two from shore, off a lonely island. [6]
- From that place there is no escape--the desert is as the sea, and upon that sea there is no ghiassa to sail to a farther shore. [11]
- The leader encouraged them to paddle hard for the opposite shore. [5]
- No one preceded them to clear the river, no other vessel made way for them; on the contrary, all tried to take place ahead of them, and to reach the opposite shore before them. [10]
- A lot of them had purchased a site for a town on the Lake shore, and they gave me a lot. [5]
- The number of their collected enemies was great, but Hermas had hopes of outstripping them, for his prisoner revealed to him the spot where their boats, drawn up on shore, lay hidden under sand and stones. [10]
- How great is their chance of infection, how easily they will carry it from ship to ship, and from the ships on to the shore, till the pestilence has spread from the harbor to the city! [10]
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