57 collocations for shores

They had saved more than these; but had made use of the smaller spars to shore up the superstructure, sawing them into lengths for that purpose.

But he made shift to shore the tottering walls with a playful retort.

throughout, is lofty and spacious, but the general effect is spoilt by the timber supports which are found necessary to shore up the chancel arch.

I shore believe in ghosts.

30 Nature herself took notice of his death, And, sighing, swell'd the sea with such a breath, That, to remotest shores her billows roll'd, The approaching fate of their great ruler told.

"If youse see a blue gummed negro be shore one don bite you foh dey are shore pizenous.

"A breastwork!" "Shore a breastwork.

Frequently the increase of the emoluments of bureaucrats, especially at the higher levels of authority and responsibility, creates sinecures which are filled by parasites or by individuals who are engaged in shoring up the bureaucracy rather than rendering a public service.

"He is shore a fine cayuse," he asserted with extreme impressiveness.

This done, some set out to shore up the ceilings of the basement with mighty battens of wood, and to convert that region into a nest of cunningly devised bedrooms.

And now as the sun's last rays were nearly level, we saw the sight that I had come to see, for from two mountains that stood on either shore two cliffs of pink marble came out into the river, all glowing in the light of the low sun, and they were quite smooth and of mountainous altitude, and they nearly met, and Yann went tumbling between them and found the sea.

But a volley of small shot, and three pieces of ordnance,' writes Winslow, one of the emigrants, 'announced to those on shore the hearty courage and affectionate adieus of those on board; and so, lifting up our hands to one another, and our hearts to the Lord, we departed.'

"Oh, chile, yer mus' be shore 'bout dat.

Enormous quantities of stores of all kinds, which would have been of immense service to the troops in the winter, were lost in the gale, and even in the camps on shore the destruction was very great.

Then the thought came, that I had better seize this chance to shore up the door, again.

I tell you, pahson, dat was shore a bad dream!" "Was dere any white men dere?" asked the dusky divine.

Present efforts to shore up the insolvent U.S.A. economy and the resulting opposition of America's leading European trading partners is not reassuring.

"Yo're shore the jokin'est feller, Tom Loudon.

The weary boatmen raise Along the dusky shore their crimson fires That tinge the circling groups.

"Li'l Bright Eyes is shore a friend of mine.

While we lay here as we thought in perfect ease and security, the river of Belem suddenly swelled on the 24th of January so high, that before we could get a cable on shore the fury of the water came so impetuously on the admirals ship that it broke one of her anchors, and drove her with such force against the Galega as to bring the foremast by the board, and both ships were carried away foul of each other in the utmost danger of perishing.

But to this savage shore the Delphian god Hath sent us, cheer'd by hope.

We had plenty cahn pone, baked in de ashes too, hee, hee, hee, it shore wus good, an we had side meat, an we had other eatin too, what ever de Ole Marse had, but I like de side meat bes.

I parried and shore off half of his white plume.

I'm shore a heap obliged to you.

57 collocations for  shores