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Foreshore

noun
1.
The part of the seashore between the highwater mark and the low-water mark.





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"Foreshore" Quotes from Famous Books



... a nutshell, made of ribs of rush, covered with camel-skin, and lined with bark. In this frail craft she was afloat, and already far out in the bay not rowing, but sitting quietly, and drifting away with the ebbing tide. The wind was rising, and the line of the foreshore beyond the boat was white with breakers. Israel put off after her and rescued her. The motionless eyes began to fill when ...
— The Scapegoat • Hall Caine
... Misery Swamp, and indicated a river there. We could detect none, or, at any rate, no river entrance. If river there were, doubtless it emptied its waters through the fringe of grey-green weeds, and dispersed over the flat-looking foreshore; but even at two miles' distance it looked to be a dismal, ...
— Poison Island • Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch (Q)


Words linked to "Foreshore" :   seashore, formation, seacoast, sea-coast, geological formation, coast


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