flat shore

I was standing on a flat shore, watching the sea.

The truck moved steadily on along the broad flat shore of the lake.

With its flat shores, lost in the fog, there's no saying where it begins or ends.

The water rolled, a deep gray-green below them, washing against what was now a flat shore.

The flat shores of the bay are a natural habitat for birds such as waders.

Fields extend as far as they can into v-shaped valleys and there is no flat shore.

We were walking on fine, even sand, not wrinkled, as on a flat shore, which retains the impression of the billows.

The Akkallan continent was in sight, its flat shores protected by a string of volcanic islands rising up from the sea.

Breeds mainly on sea cliffs or marine islands, more rarely on flat shores and inland.

People over here think every blessed place in the tropics is a flat shore and palm trees and surf, bless 'em!

They were following a very flat shore bounded by a reef of rocks, whose heads scarcely emerged from the sea, for they were in deep water.

At last my strength began to fail, and I gave myself up for lost, when the wind suddenly rose, and a huge wave cast me on a flat shore.

There were many small bays on the harbour so he decided on one which had a good stream of fresh water and some flat shore to land on.

The ship had no motion when they reached air; here they were in the middle of a brown-blue tide, with flat shores stretching to green-blue on either flank.

When she saw them, she was to make the two or three day hike along the flat shore to the western end of the island and camp there until he came for her.

Harriet found it difficult to reconcile the sleepy little town they had just left with the flat shores protected from the sea by the dykes built so patiently by the Friesians over the centuries.

Earth lay far below, invisible; only through the night came the moaning of the sea, as the wind drove it, in still enlarging waves, upon the flat shore, a level of doubtful grass and sand, three miles away.

And there was an unfriendly man standing on the flat shore over their heads, intending to kill Count Finnegan if he should find a way up through the fissured roof of the cave to come out to full day.

Wilhelmshaven was dropping south behind him into the early gathering dusk of a November afternoon and the low flat shores of Jede Bay were already vanishing into nothingness, but Marschall never spared them a glance.

It was only after the end of World War II that serious consideration was given to the development of the port, and its flat shores north of Stony and Crib Points have become a centre for heavy industry.

It also breeds on the west side of the Black Sea; here it overlaps with the Caspian Gull but there is a difference in habitat, with the Yellow-legged Gull preferring sea cliffs and Caspian Gull on flatter shores.

About three-quarters of the way around the lake, I was confronted with a turning point: I could select either the difficult path of virtue, up the steep hillside to the Temple of Apollo, or the easy path of vice, which hugged the flat shore and led straight toward a specimen California sequoia.

It would be illiberal to assert that prize-money was by any means the most important, but as they left the flat shore north of Ras Uferni in Morocco, where they had at last disembarked their prisoners after a tedious voyage with contrary winds, it was certainly the subject still most frequently discussed.

His subtle drawing of the receding lines of the low banks and shallows of river estuaries and flat shores is seen to perfection in many of his original etchings, mezzotints, and aquatints, notably "Low Tide and the Evening Star" and "The Solway at Mid-day."

And when I turned my head to take a parting glance at the tug which had just left us anchored outside the bar, I saw the straight line of the flat shore joined to the stable sea, edge to edge, with a perfect and unmarked closeness, in one leveled floor half brown, half blue under the enormous dome of the sky.