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    1. “The coast is that way


    2. “If Red and Silence aren’t worried, it means that the coast is clear for now


    3. He could have reached the coast of Dromedia, but he hugged the western shore where they cruised thru a thousand miles of lon to the horizon on both sides


    4. but I can't prove I went over to the coast and not down to Bridgwater? What if no-one remembers seeing me? Fighting down the panic this thought sets off, I try to find of something safer to think about


    5. The Mayan, and their precursor’s the Olmec, flourished for a millennium along Mexico’s Gulf coast


    6. to the South Coast and the company laboratories was the biggest emotional event in


    7. still allowed the freedom of an apartment on the coast, somewhere that I could retreat


    8. Stu stepped off the coast road bus at Adelianos, having left the boys to their


    9. the mountain to his one-time home on the coast, a place that he barely remembered


    10. God willing he would make the coast and home

    11. I was back on the beach, staring wildly along the coast for the source of this magic


    12. It was a long walk down from the mountain to his one-time home on the coast, a place that he barely remembered other than for the fantastic whiteness of the walls and the deep blue cupola of their little church


    13. God willing he would make the coast and home tomorrow


    14. Iain owns a little house here in Blue Anchor, on the Somerset coast, and is willing to offer it for whatever use Errd can find for it


    15. Herod wanted to build a Greek-styled city on the coast


    16. We went as far south as Exmoor and detoured along the coast


    17. ’ He said evasively, ‘By the coast, you may have memories of the sea and I’m pretty sure that garden you recall was there … you spent a lot of time in the garden from what I was told


    18. If it proves to be so, why is it so far inland? Why not out on the coast?”


    19. ‘Lyme – it is a fishing village on the south coast


    20. ’ I replied, leaning out as far as I dare to see along the coast

    21. I have completely lost my bearings and haven’t the faintest idea where we are in relation to the coast … Joris, first checking all is clear, waves us across, and we disappear quickly into the woods on the other side


    22. ‘And what was this monumental thought?’ he asked, watching as Joris checks the coast is clear before edging out along the line of the stone wall


    23. mid-seventies on the coast, a little cooler inland


    24. on the road that runs along the coast behind us


    25. ‘On the coast some twenty odd miles south of Bristol


    26. ‘There’s no place called Weston-super-Mare that I know of … there is a village on the coast called Uphill and another on the plain called Milltown


    27. She was built on the mountain by people from the coast seeking refuge from ravaging pirates and so, it is isolated from the rest of the island


    28. At precisely one minute past the hour, when he was sure the coast was clear, an older gentleman in a well-cut suit came and sat on the bench


    29. That explains why they have been searing all the land from the coast to here


    30. He gave Jake much information; he also informed Jake about the existence of 22 dragons in Oregon on the West coast who had agreed to join in the fight against the dark devils

    31. Later that night, when the coast was clear the suburban hiatus by the oak tree was just a distant memory, the soldier stood on Harrow hill and gazed out across his new world horizon


    32. We have managed to destroy the pack of black devils that were entrenched on the west coast creating havoc throughout the country


    33. Auntie and I headed out towards the coast and found the strengthening south-easterly in step as we joined the cliff walk


    34. Ichor informed him that the Blue Dragons from the coast had already been called


    35. During the telephone call the businessman decided not to remark on the fact that he had seen the fisherman sitting on the beach with his rods and his lines on more than one occasion during his recent trips down to the south coast to seal the deal on his new factory with the local council planning authorities


    36. Out on the West coast, Diana gave birth to six children, three boys and three girls


    37. Big John and Diana were able to make contact with the survivors all along the West coast


    38. Surfman was beloved mostly by the surfer crowd who returned once again after the coast was cleared, and found he gave new meaning to the phase ‘curl a wave’


    39. He was the fiercest of all the pirates of the Aegean, of the African coast, of everywhere


    40. The land gradually drops away as we near the coast and it is not long before we are on the outskirts of Caernarfon and driving down the coast road towards Clynnog-fawr

    41. In no time at all, the coast was nothing more than a faint form on the horizon


    42. I suppose we could pick them up and maybe relocate them, stone by stone, further down the coast


    43. Nikos kept the rugged and desolate coast of northern Stephanos at a safe distance and whenever a wave broke over the bow and showered me with salty balls of foam Alexis would collapse in fits of laughter at my cringing and groaning


    44. coast was clear and the four of them set off down the street


    45. He mentions that there’s another family in the village willing to take part – they lost someone in the hurricane which hit the coast of America last autumn


    46. in the land of nod by now and so, with the coast clear, she could


    47. The road winds along the edge of the cliffs, following the contours of the bays, with fantastic views of the towns nestling along the coast and across the bay towards Ischia


    48. The main road goes through Sorrento and then winds up towards the ‘nose’ of the peninsula before turning back on itself, leaving the Bay of Naples, and heading south for the Amalfi coast


    49. precisely one minute past the hour, when he was sure the coast was


    50. Later that night, when the coast was clear the suburban hiatus by














































    1. Just as suddenly they were released and the craft coasted to a landing dock and came to a stop


    2. It did really strange things and basically the engine stopped and we coasted to a stop alongside the road


    3. coasted along slowly then pulled in at the side of the empty road and turned off the ignition


    4. There were lights up ahead now, as he came over a gentle rise and then coasted down into the valley


    5. here!” The Shuttle turned and coasted up to a small squat building


    6. He killed the engine and coasted to within three hundred yards of Spot 6


    7. The Dangler pulled his fishing pole out of the riverbed and the boat coasted forward in the swift current, following the fork of the river down which Miney had fled


    8. with a little shove he coasted right into her


    9. house and coasted quietly down the hill


    10. He coasted on past a white painted sign which said “Terry

    11. I lowered the speed towards Hannibal and coasted into a new life with new wonders; but this could not abate my own tears for Mom


    12. Chance coasted towards the boys with the car in neutral, "Good game, guys," he said sarcastically


    13. Such ambition was on Theo’s mind as he coasted on the farm manager’s motor-bike, a big shaft driven machine, down to the stream


    14. We coasted into town dropping down to the speed limit of twenty


    15. coasted quietly to a halt beside the barn


    16. The snow is frozen so hard that far from being cut off as I had feared from shops and food there is the most glorious sledding road down to Jena; and at once on hearing of Joey's imminence Vicki and I coasted down on the sled and I bought the book Papa has been wanting and a gigantic piece of beef


    17. Her laughter turned to tears, and she coasted to the shoulder of the road


    18. Confident that her young friend was safe, she then coasted to the end of the street and rounded the corner


    19. She coasted up to the reverend and focused her new eyes on his, ready to deliver the knock-out bulletin


    20. Just then a dark sedan coasted past the house, its lights out

    21. Both craft coasted as thrust was reduced and the Avengers maneuvered to strafe a


    22. Had we just driven up that would not be eerie, but there was no way they could have known we were there, as I had turned off the lights and coasted up from a quarter-mile back


    23. The Mighty Mel’s engineer coasted the locomotive into the station, blaring on the horn


    24. ” I said with less than half of my attention, as I coasted one hand lovingly up over a body I had forbidden myself for the longest time of ever touching, but was now mine to have and hold for all of this mortal lifetime


    25. We coasted the two boats through the early morning gloom of fog as quietly we could


    26. I rode for days only seeing the occasional scattered wildlife and the annoying presence of my constant companion, the buzzard, who lazily coasted along above marking my progress


    27. After we got back to the ship and through the barrage of questions that Loric leveled at us along with the knowing looks of the others that had Ellanara beat red in the face we got under way and coasted over the surface of the planet for several miles, until I directed Ellanara to set the ship down in a clearing


    28. My thumb coasted over her lips caressingly, “I consider protecting you and Kevin among the highest priorities I could ever accomplish in life


    29. Panic set in slightly as he coasted the car down the long and winding street, numerous darkened houses passing by the window


    30. He coasted to a halt at the stop sign and they watched her go down the street two blocks and turn left into a driveway

    31. He coasted into the area with his headlights off, and parked one hundred feet east of the building


    32. While the longboat coasted, drops of liquid flicked from the oars and hit the dark troughs of the waves, pitter–pattering like splashes of molten lead


    33. The next morn broke off the coast of Aleria; all day they coasted, and in the evening saw fires lighted on land; the position of these was no doubt a signal for landing, for a ship's lantern was hung up at the mast-head instead of the streamer, and they came to within a gunshot of the shore


    34. The rumble strips roared inside the car as they coasted to a stop on the side of the interstate


    35. He coasted them, walking warily


    36. After a few seconds, he stopped actively pulling and simply took in the line as they coasted toward him


    37. The car’s momentum began to decrease as Colin lifted his foot from the accelerator, and they coasted the next block and through another intersection


    38. Then, sitting down on his sled, the boy coasted down the mountain like a shot


    39. Not being able to stop his course when he reached the village, he coasted down further and further, till he arrived in the plain, where the sled stopped of itself


    40. Those were golden days and balmy nights! In and out of harbour all the time—old friends everywhere—sleeping in some cool temple or ruined cistern during the heat of the day—feasting and song after sundown, under great stars set in a velvet sky! Thence we turned and coasted up the Adriatic, its shores swimming in an atmosphere of amber, rose, and aquamarine; we lay in wide landlocked harbours, we roamed through ancient and noble cities, until at last one morning, as the sun rose royally behind us, we rode into Venice down a path of gold

    41. I COASTED INTO A filling station right inside the limits of Half Moon Bay


    42. When he turned onto her block, he mashed the gas pedal once more and then coasted to a stop in front of a dark storefront just past her yellow-brick townhome


    43. I had coasted by, doing the bare


    44. When I woke up, I pulled the little lever on her left handlebar and coasted her downhill for about a mile


    45. “The Sariceans could have sent in scouts, powered down and coasted, cloaked transmissions


    46. In the last decade alone, we had two market drops of nearly 50%, yet you would have coasted through the storm without a single gut check and still averaged a compounded annual return of just under 10%


    47. Mr Terle coasted awhile, eyes shut


    48. The Ferris wheel coasted for a minute, all the carnival people looking up at it, the policeman looking up at it, Hank and Peter looking up at it


    49. Silently the aircar coasted through the cold darkness, a single soft glow of light that was utterly alone in the deep Magrathean night


    50. And the owls coasted overhead, and the coyotes gabbled in the distance, and into the camp skunks walked, looking for bits of food—waddling, arrogant skunks, afraid of nothing






    1. The greater part, both of the exportation and coasting trade of America, is carried on by the capitals of merchants who reside in Great Britain


    2. But the same capital may employ as many sailors and shipping, either in the foreign trade of consumption, or even in the home trade, when carried on by coasting vessels, as it could in the carrying trade


    3. When such restrictions are imposed upon the inland trade, the coasting trade, we may believe, cannot be left very free


    4. The uniform system of taxation, which, with a few exception of no great consequence, takes place in all the different parts of the united kingdom of Great Britain, leaves the interior commerce of the country, the inland and coasting trade, almost entirely free


    5. The trade between all the different parts of the British empire would, in consequence of this uniformity in the custom-house laws, be as free as the coasting trade of Great Britain is at present


    6. Rolling hills, valleys, coves and harbours, fishing smacks at sea, and small ships coasting along


    7. His children and the Blythe lads and lasses were coasting down the eastern slope and whizzing over the glassy pond


    8. We are currently coasting by a gravity well and will not be able to jump again for thirteen hours,” I said


    9. I stare out at Jersey City and the coasting boats


    10. Will managed to get the coasting car aimed at a gas

    11. me, and its black shape soon came into view, coasting toward the


    12. She watched it taxi to the end of the runway, coasting to a stop


    13. Maybe they really were coasting downhill toward a crash


    14. A small fishing boat, two miles away, its white outline contrasting sharply with the darkness of the heavily forested islands, was coasting steadily north


    15. advanced on the drone now coasting on its assigned trajectory


    16. She could never remember that when you throttled back the machine stopped abruptly instead of coasting weightlessly through space


    17. A series of internal shocks rocked the ship until it lay still, a dead hulk coasting through space


    18. 7 - Solid, can't complain, coasting because it's good enough but


    19. to the Celestial Kingdom, instead of coasting with the church


    20. The KOSTROMA was presently in the space coasting mode, with its main fusion drive lit but on idle

    21. His ships had up to now being strictly passive, coasting in orbit while surrounded by other ships in Callisto orbit


    22. After four months of deep space travel, most of it spent coasting along their calculated trajectory, they were finally getting close to the dwarf planet, decelerating on gravity sail power while a small army of astronomers, astrophysicists and planetologists studied Eris via the long range telescopes and sensors of the ship


    23. “Those life pods are still coasting at full impulse speeds, with a trajectory that will bring them right here, and the Romulans will surely be back up to full power by the time they arrive,” Kletsova pointed out


    24. You cannot even say, “I am coasting” as there is only one way to coast, and that is downhill


    25. Install an electronic motor brake on machines that have excessive coasting


    26. Like cars out of gas coasting into the station on fumes, we


    27. "Years ago, residents used to get here by small coasting vessels from Boston


    28. “There is nothing for you to be ashamed of or hide from! You have family that loves you and you should be in contact with them and not coasting around the edges primarily focused on just keeping them safe from a distance, as your one only contact with them


    29. But it was too late, there was no room for it, and coasting onto the floor, it disappeared in a most mysterious manner


    30. She was coasting on fumes by the time she pulled into the gas station

    31. Though they “all grew up there very happily, romping over the lawns in the spring and fall, and coasting down the sloping hill in the winter


    32. With the next lane blocked by a black Range Rover coasting along at the speed limit, Colin cut across the breakdown lane and zoomed past a cluster of cars before veering back onto the road


    33. He saw the quays of a big port, where the coasting feluccas, with their lateen sails outspread like motionless wings, enter gliding silently between the end of long moles of squared blocks that project angularly towards each other, hugging a cluster of shipping to the superb bosom of a hill covered with palaces


    34. Later, however, there was a very fine coasting schooner for sale, and Mrs


    35. It's true, too, that he was away on his coasting voyages certainly ten months out of the twelve


    36. The necessity to go far afield made his coasting voyages long, and caused his visits to the Viola household to be rare and far between


    37. had been coasting along all too hospitable shores for five years when he turned up as James Gatz’s destiny at Little Girl Bay


    38. They’d scooted off a hairpin exit now and were coasting past desolate hulks of buildings


    39. The plane was coasting downward with a sickening, unrelenting pull


    40. Of this potent combination, O’Shaughnessy explained that the 100-stock strategy does well because when one strategy is coasting, the other is often soaring

    41. Big gray clouds were coasting over the ridge, riding the wind swiftly


    42. We passed rapidly along; the sun was hot, but we were sheltered from its rays by a kind of canopy while we enjoyed the beauty of the scene, sometimes on one side of the lake, where we saw Mont Saleve, the pleasant banks of Montalegre, and at a distance, surmounting all, the beautiful Mont Blanc and the assemblage of snowy mountains that in vain endeavour to emulate her; sometimes coasting the opposite banks, we saw the mighty Jura opposing its dark side to the ambition that would quit its native country, and an almost insurmountable barrier to the invader who should wish to enslave it


    43. Whitby, with other British armed vessels, hovering about New York, vexing the trade of that port, arresting a coasting vessel of the United States by firing a cannon, which entered the vessel and killed John Pierce


    44. For how otherwise can it be, when we consider that all the navigation business, from one end to the other of these United States, is totally stopped, excepting a small remnant of our coasting trade, and that remnant under very great embarrassments; and all that numerous class of our citizens, dependent on commerce, deprived of their usual means of gaining a livelihood, and in consequence thereof thousands of them have been obliged to live on their former earnings, and consume that little property they had treasured up for their future support? And if the embargo is continued, the inevitable consequence must be, bankruptcy to many of our merchants, and absolute distress, misery, and want, to a large proportion of our citizens who live in the seaport towns, and great embarrassments to all classes of citizens throughout our country


    45. A private wherry anchored opposite the village above the Thelma was the only craft in the river, and a few trawlers and coasting steamers far out were the only vessels to be seen at sea


    46. Mary's, to our vessels, and all that would then remain to our own vessels would be the profits of the coasting trade from our harbors to those ports of deposit


    47. My coachman’s children have a species of roller sled on which they daily endanger their lives by coasting down the steep macadamized road which leads from my house


    48. It wasn’t coasting, but it was exciting enough, as one went very fast


    49. Give up the export trade to Great Britain, and you will next be required to give up the coasting trade, and to admit her navigation act to as complete operation in our bays and harbors, as it now has round the limited shores of the British isles


    50. I was in favor of repairing and putting into service the whole of our naval force, consisting of one hundred and sixty-two gunboats and upwards of fifteen frigates and smaller war vessels; because this naval force, united with our fortifications, would give security to our coasts and harbors, protect our coasting trade, and would be important in the present crisis to co-operate with privateers and individual enterprise against the commerce and plunder of Great Britain









    1. The capitals of the British manufacturers who work up the flax and hemp annually imported from the coasts of the Baltic, are surely very useful to the countries which produce them


    2. Holland lies at a great distance from the seas to which herrings are known principally to resort, and can, therefore, carry on that fishery only in decked vessels, which can carry water and provisions sufficient for a voyage to a distant sea ; but the Hebrides, or Western Isdands, the islands of Shetland, and the northern and north-western coasts of Scotland, the countries in whose neighbourhood the herring fishery is principally carried on


    3. between the east and west coasts of the country


    4. particularly on the Atlantic and Gulf coasts of the United States


    5. they protected American commerce along the coasts of China


    6. Wyoming, Narragansett, and Cyane to cruise along the coasts of California and Mexico for protection of these merchant steamers


    7. Three thousand years ago, Medai Corderant, High Seat of House Corderant, was Ship Captain of the Fleet of Wavewardens, hundreds of Great Warships that sailed the coasts, providing protection from potential invaders


    8. They often formed clans of the four tribes to invade by force and overwhelm the small outposts and keeps that guarded the coasts


    9. Usually sail ships around the coasts of the lands known as the Great Sea to the west, the North Sea, and the West Sea


    10. The horror and sadness of it; that Americans should have died for lack of medicine and food in a land adjoining their coasts, and within reach of a generous people willing for any sacrifice that the troops should have need of nothing!

    11. The earthquake was caused by subduction and triggered a series of devastating tsunamis along the coasts of most landmasses bordering the Indian Ocean, killing over 230,000 people in fourteen countries, and inundating coastal communities with waves up to 30 meters (98 ft


    12. any of the coasts of Israel,


    13. 32 In those days the Lord began to cut Israel short, and Hazael struck them in all the coasts of Israel;


    14. 16 Then Menahem struck Tiphsah, and all that were in it, and the coasts of it from Tirzah, because they opened not to him, therefore


    15. 54 Now these are their dwelling places throughout their castles in their coasts, of the sons of Aaron, of the families of the


    16. of their coasts out of the tribe of Ephraim


    17. sword of the Lord, even the pestilence, in the land, and the angel of the Lord destroying throughout all the coasts of Israel


    18. 13 And the priests and the Levites that were in all Israel resorted to him out of all their coasts


    19. Jdg 19:29 And when he was come into his house, he took a knife, and laid hold on his concubine, and divided her, together with her bones, into twelve pieces, and sent her into all the coasts of Israel


    20. 31 He spoke, and there came various sorts of flies, and lice in all their coasts

    21. 33 He struck their vines also and their fig trees; and broke the trees of their coasts


    22. You’re dreaming of a life on coasts of the sea


    23. great whirlwind shall be raised up from the coasts of the Earth


    24. from the coasts of the Earth, and with them the blind and the injured, the woman with child and she who travails with child together:


    25. coasts of the Earth


    26. all the coasts of Palestinee will you render me a recompence?and if you recompense me, swiftly and speedily will I return your


    27. In any case, it occurred to me that it was not wise to have strangers plying the seas off our coasts


    28. out into all the coasts of Judea round about, and took vengeance of them that had revolted from him, so that they durst no more go out


    29. began to put out their heads in all the coasts of Israel, and there arose up all such as wrought iniquity


    30. country, and swore by his throne and kingdom, that he would surely be avenged on all those coasts of Cilicia, and Damascus, and

    31. the fear and dread of him fell on all the inhabitants of the sea coasts, which were in Sidon and Tyrus, and them that dwelt in Sur and


    32. 4 Therefore they sent into all the coasts of Samaria, and the villages and to Bethoron, and


    33. and Cola and to all the coasts of Israel, such as should tell the things that were done, and that all should rush out on their enemies to


    34. Journalist and columnist Andrew Sullivan warns that “decadent left” organizations, centered on the east and west coasts, hold such extreme anti-American views that they “may well mount what amounts to a fifth column” in America


    35. Later on, after the fishing of seals and whales started in their coasts, illness devastated and ruined the Maori population, so that the village Otakau Pa, considerably inhabited in earlier times, could only count about one hundred people by 1848


    36. the earliest days of cinematography in 1963 ( Coasts of


    37. 14 And the locust went up over all the land of Egypt, and rested in all the coasts of Egypt: very grievous were they; before them there were no such locusts as they, neither after them shall be such


    38. 19 And the Lord turned a mighty strong west wind, which took away the locusts, and cast them into the Red sea; there remained not one locust in all the coasts of Egypt


    39. Denmark, Great Britain, and Norway are supposedly very friendly to the environment and yet they have oil wells in the North Sea off of their coasts


    40. Obama reversed or scaled back nearly every major offshore oil opportunity that has come about since the price spike of 2008 – effectively reimposing a moratorium on drilling off the coasts

    41. We have oil off of both coasts, in the Gulf, in Alaska, on federal owned lands and in the shale in Wyoming


    42. 2 Command the children of Israel, and say to them, When you come into the land of Canaan; (this is the land that shall fall to you for an inheritance, even the land of Canaan with the coasts thereof:)


    43. 12 And the border shall go down to Jordan, and the goings out of it shall be at the salt sea: this shall be your land with the coasts thereof round about


    44. 40 You shall have olive trees throughout all your coasts, but you shall not anoint yourself with the oil; for your olive shall cast his fruit


    45. 1 And it came to pass, when all the kings which were on this side Jordan, in the hills, and in the valleys, and in all the coasts of the great sea over against Lebanon, the Hittite, and the Amorite, the Canaanite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite, heard of it;


    46. 5 And they shall divide it into seven parts, Judah shall abide in their coast on the south, and the house of Joseph shall abide in their coasts on the north


    47. This was the inheritance of the children of Benjamin, by the coasts of it round about, according to their families


    48. 49 When they had made an end of dividing the land for inheritance by their coasts, the children of Israel gave an inheritance to Joshua the son of Nun among them,


    49. 22 And they possessed all the coasts of the Amorites, from Arnon even to Jabbok, and from the wilderness even to Jordan


    50. 26 While Israel dwelt in Heshbon and her towns, and in Aroer and her towns, and in all the cities that be along by the coasts of Arnon, three hundred years? why therefore did you not recover them within that time?













































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    Synonyms for "coast"

    coast glide slide sea-coast seacoast seashore drift ride float sail free wheel soar shore beach seaside strand

    "coast" definitions

    the shore of a sea or ocean


    a slope down which sleds may coast


    the area within view


    the act of moving smoothly along a surface while remaining in contact with it


    move effortlessly; by force of gravity