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Coast

noun

The shore of a sea or ocean. Synonyms: sea-coast, seacoast, seashore.

A slope down which sleds may coast.

The area within view.

The act of moving smoothly along a surface while remaining in contact with it. Synonyms: glide, slide. "The children lined up for a coast down the snowy slope"

verb

(past & past part. coasted; pres. part. coasting)

Move effortlessly; by force of gravity.

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"Coast" Quotes from Famous Books

... the good Camillo, too well obeyed the orders of Leontes; for he immediately carried the child on ship-board, and put out to sea, intending to leave it on the first desert coast he ...

— Books for Children - The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb, Vol. 3 • Charles and Mary Lamb

... night. When her attendant was unconscious and softly breathing in the next room, the mistress of the house was still looking out of the window at the faint gleam spreading from among the trees—not in a steady shine, but blinking like a revolving coast-light, though this appearance failed to suggest to her that a person was passing and repassing in front of it. Bathsheba sat here till it began to rain, and the light vanished, when she withdrew to lie restlessly in her bed and re-enact in a worn mind the lurid ...

— Far from the Madding Crowd • Thomas Hardy

... on the Irish coast, fifty miles from a police barrack, offered cheap as an appropriate basis of observation to psychic enthusiasts anxious to study the ...

— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 159, August 25th, 1920 • Various

... they proposed to relate recent, so that all the witnesses of them were not yet dead? They had the resource of interviewing the witnesses who survived. Thucydides, Froissart, and many others have followed this procedure. When Mr. H. H. Bancroft, the historian of the Pacific Coast of California, resolved to collect materials for the history of events many of the actors in which were still alive, he mobilised a whole army of reporters charged to extract conversations from them.[25] But ...

— Introduction to the Study of History • Charles V. Langlois

... so. I don't know anything about it; it belongs to a friend of mine, who loaned it to me. I think the action's German, or Czech; the rest of it's a custom job, by some West Coast gunmaker. It's chambered for some ...

— Police Operation • H. Beam Piper

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