14 collocations for beached

As it was again high tide, we rowed in to the steep shore inside the cave's mouth and beached the boat.

They then took away from the ship much wood for their use and beached the ship, and took away its rudder and undid it, and stowed away its wood and iron-works, in case of its being wanted for the other ships, because they had all been built of the same pattern and size, as a precaution that all might be able to take advantage of any part of them.

I shall try to get back to the island, where I shall endeavour to beach the schooner, and get a look at her leaks.

"I'll make a carry," thought Flavilla, beaching her canoe.

All this distance I could avoid by beaching my dory, and striking out on foot directly across the narrow neck of land.

We accordingly beached our rafts and went ashore to wait for moonrise.

Camels unload in Jerusalem the goods laden upon them in the seats of the most ancient empires; and on her pebbly beaches the Mediterranean rolls, bearing the commerce of Europe.

I nodded to show I knew the place, and he went on'Men used to choose that spot in good old times to beach a cargo before the passage to the vault was dug; and there is a worked-out quarry they called Pyegrove's Hole, not too far off up the down, and choked with brambles, where we can find shelter for a hundred kegs.

But the bewildering character of the islands made landing difficult; the swirling flood carried us in shore and then swept us out again; the willow branches tore our hands as we seized them to stop the canoe, and we pulled many a yard of sandy bank into the water before at length we shot with a great sideways blow from the wind into a backwater and managed to beach the bows in a cloud of spray.

He reached there in a short time but did not at once risk an encounter, though Caesar was constantly marshaling his infantry in front of the camp, often making dashes at them with his ships and beaching their transports; for his object was to join battle with only such as were present, before Antony's entire command assembled.

They ran the tug across the bay to Elk Creek, and upon arriving there they beached the tug on the north side, followed a stream that Harriett Tubman had told them about.

Not long after, Captain Horn began to hope that if the wind held, and the brig could keep above water for an hour or so, he could double a small headland which now showed itself plainly a couple of miles away, and might be able to beach his vessel.

But when they reached the place of many pines, God's country, that no white man yet had named They beached their birch canoe 'neath swinging vines, For here, the Indian read by many signs, Lay the wild land the tribe of Huron claimed.

The night the vessel is to be beached Watkins and Carter, with one or two they select, will get off in a small boat, carefully provisioned, and thus make our own landing.

14 collocations for  beached