"Sea-coast" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... the aperture, which overlooked the ground from a height of eighty feet. Before him was extended the sea-coast, the islet, and beyond ...
— The Mysterious Island • Jules Verne
... islands near their shores and then approached by causeways;[6] and the rest of the people lived in huts whose circular foundations still remain, and are found in large numbers at much higher elevations than the sites of any brochs. The brochs near the sea-coast were often so placed as to communicate with each other for long distances up the valleys, by signal by day, and beacon fire at night, and so far as they are traceable, the positions of most of them in Sutherland ...
— Sutherland and Caithness in Saga-Time - or, The Jarls and The Freskyns • James Gray
... forces in three divisions; one, under Tuerr, was sent to Catania; the second, under Bixio, to Girgenti; the third, under Medici, was to follow the northern sea-coast towards Messina, the strongest position still in the enemy's hands. All three were ultimately to converge with a view to the grand object of crossing over to the mainland. Medici had 2500 men; the royalists in and about Messina could dispose of 15,000. The Garibaldians did ...
— The Liberation of Italy • Countess Evelyn Martinengo-Cesaresco
... disguises. He says that at the beginning of the war it was probably good policy to deny that the Government ever intended to annex Belgium, but, he says, "now that we are victorious there is no reason why we should not publish to the world the fact that we never intend to give up one foot of the Belgian sea-coast, nor one ton of the Belgian coal, nor one acre of the French ...
— The Blot on the Kaiser's 'Scutcheon • Newell Dwight Hillis
... the Netherlands was girt with forests. An extensive belt of woodland skirted the sea-coast; reaching beyond the mouths of the Rhine. Along the outer edge of this carrier, the dunes cast up by the sea were prevented by the close tangle of thickets from drifting further inward; and thus formed a breastwork which time and art were to strengthen. ...
— The Rise of the Dutch Republic, 1555-1566 • John Lothrop Motley
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