44 Metaphors for shores

Tiny villages showed and the shores were an obvious manifestation of comfort and opulence.

This destruction of the trees has materially hurt the prospects for three or four miles on the Pensylvania side; the opposite Jersey shore (except the plantations) is one entire forest.

Oh deep-eyed brothers was there ever here, Or is there now, or shall there sometime be Harbour or any rest for such as we, Lone thin-cheeked mariners, that aye must steer Our whispering barks with such keen hope and fear Toward misty bournes across that coastless sea, Whose winds are songs that ever gust and flee, Whose shores are dreams that tower but come not near.

I wisht you had the moneyshe shore is a good bunch

The opposite shore is a most delicious meadow, bounded by Richmond Hill, which loses itself in the noble woods of the park to the end of the prospect on the right, where is another turn of the river, and the suburbs of Kingston as luckily placed as Twickenham is on the left: and a natural terrace on the brow of my hill, with meadows of my own down to the river, commands both extremities.

The shores of Baiae were witnesses of the orgies and cruelties of Nero and a court made in his likeness, and the palpitating loveliness of Capri became the hot-bed of the unnatural vices of Tiberius.

shore of Loch Fyne, close to which is the castle, the residence of the Duke of Argyll.

But chiefly the sea-shore has been the point of departure to knowledge, as to commerce.

"Shore, that would 'a' been a bright thing to do now, wouldn't it?" "What didja do with the knife?" "Dropped it through a knothole in the wall.

The shore Is still a huddled alabaster floor Of shelving ice and shattered slabs of cold, Stern wreckage of the fiercely frozen wave, Gleaming in mailed wastes of white and gold; As though the sea, in an enchanted grave, Of fearful crystal locked, no more shall stir Softly, all lover, to the April moon: Hardly a breath!

shore, is the only town; Danish from 1559, the island passed to Sweden in 1645 and to Russia in 1721; the wealthier classes are of German descent.

The shore, rescued from the sea, is a mile in width and is of great length around (the island) and it is good and fertile land for tillage and pasturelying beneath the monastery of Declan.

"Shore must be a sound sleeper," said Racey Dawson to himself, "if he really did just wake up.

Are they?" "Shore," was the prompt reply.

Well, the red-men are gone, but the oyster-beds remain; and if winter refugees continue to pour in this direction, as doubtless they will, they too will eat a "heap" of oysters (it is easy to see how the vulgar Southern use of that word may have originated), and in the course of time, probably, the shores of the Halifax and the Hillsborough will be a fine mountainous country!

The shore was a soft mud, in which the small mangroves had found a most congenial soil: while our journey every now and then, arrested by the intervention of one or other of the numerous little creeks of which I have before spoken, promised to prove a more fatiguing, if not more hazardous affair, than we had originally contemplated.

The squatters also had a word to say, and The Broken-down Squatter puts their side of the case in a sort of ad misericordiam appeal; while The Eumerella Shore is a smart hit at the cattle-stealers who availed themselves of the chances afforded by the new state of things in the country.

This shore must be one o' my lucky days.

Do you think, if I left it all to you, you could handle it?" "Shore I couldwhat's the use of your troublin' yourself about it, Colonel Dunwody?

The shore Is still a huddled alabaster floor Of shelving ice and shattered slabs of cold, Stern wreckage of the fiercely frozen wave, Gleaming in mailed wastes of white and gold; As though the sea, in an enchanted grave, Of fearful crystal locked, no more shall stir Softly, all lover, to the April moon: Hardly a breath!

The shores of the Atlantic coast of America may well be a terror to navigators.

SHORE, JANE, the celebrated mistress of Edward IV.; was the young wife of a respected London goldsmith till she was taken up by the king, through whom, till the close of the reign, she exercised great power, "never abusing it to any man's hurt, but to many a man's comfort and relief"; was ill-treated and persecuted by Richard III.

Are you on?" "Ah shore is, an' Ah'll git him, fo' Ah reckon he's gwine come again.

We could make out little yet but the low wooded shore and the wide opening that we knew was the mouth of Back River, the waterway that cuts off from the mainland that storied piece of soil.

But their self-congratulation is wasted, Lymington itself is a very pleasant and clean town, even if its shore is a dreary stretch of salt marsh, grey and depressing on the sunniest day.

44 Metaphors for  shores