Shores

Examples

• The words she had spoken to Laura by the shores of the lake, the very words had now come true. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• We were soon on board, and within the hour the white city and the pleasant shores of Spain sank down behind the waves and passed out of sight. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• These shores are yet distant; they look so blue, soft, gentle, we long to reach them. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Thus the southern shores of America, Australia, and New Zealand may have become slightly tinted by the same peculiar forms of life. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• I wept on the blessed shores of Galilee. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• Through Asia, from the banks of the Nile to the shores of the Caspian, from the Hellespont even to the sea of Oman, a sudden panic was driven. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• Its waters are very clear, and it has a pebbly bottom and is shallow for some distance out from the shores. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• King Mithridates of Pontius, the Hellenized king of the southern shores of the Black Sea east of Bithynia, was pressing Rome into war. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The creaking of the masts, the clang of the wheels, the tramp above, all persuaded her that she was already far from the shores of Greece. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• Probably the last summer had found no human being alive, in all the track included between the shores of Calabria and the northern Alps. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• Whereat Caliphronas, leaning over the taffrail and looking dreamily at the shores of his native land, broke out into song. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• Between the two, shifting backwards and forwards at certain seasons of the year, lies the most horrible quicksand on the shores of Yorkshire. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• I shall delight to pass the shores of those lone rock-islets where the sea-birds live and breed unmolested. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• We shall almost see the shores of Norway. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• The Americans were eager to escape from the spirit they had roused, and, reaching the eastern shores of the island, embarked for England. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• William Penn found that they had long been at work on the Delaware when he reached its shores in 1682. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• It suggests no crystal waters, no picturesque shores, no sublimity. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• The arid island of Malta came in sight, and they saw its precipitous shores rising sternly from the tideless waters. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• You shall go to a place I have in the south of France: a whitewashed villa on the shores of the Mediterranean. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• He was a man at home on both shores of the Atlantic, at a time when such men were rare. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• The island is upon our shores, is very fertile, and is capable of supporting fifteen millions of people. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Salt crystals glitter in the sun about the shores of the lake. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• Marconi of Italy has been more successful in this direction, and has sent electric messages and signals from high stations over the English Channel from the shores of France to England. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• The same, but diversified, it grew, and swept onwards towards the absorbing ocean, whose dim shores we now reached. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• At that time, at eighteen, drawing near the confines of illusive, void dreams, Elf-land lies behind us, the shores of Reality rise in front. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Richardson, also, speaks of the reappearance on the shores of New Zealand, Tasmania, etc. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• A great feature of Como's attractiveness is the multitude of pretty houses and gardens that cluster upon its shores and on its mountain sides. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• The Galapagos Archipelago, situated under the equator, lies at a distance of between 500 and 600 miles from the shores of South America. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• Armenia and the southern shores of the Black Sea became a confusion of changing rulers. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The holy fires of Baku on the shores of the Caspian and elsewhere were also thus supplied. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.

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