Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The sea-shore.
- noun A bank or mole to defend against the sea.
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Examples
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But when they came, all thanking God, to the pitch and slope of the sea-bank, leading on towards Watchett town, and where my horse had shied so, there the little boy jumped up, and clapped his hands at the water; and there (as Benita said) they met their fate, and could not fly it.
Lorna Doone Richard Doddridge 2004
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I was the other day talking on the sea-bank with certain Venetians; and thither comes the bauble, and, by this hand, she falls me thus about my neck —
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Here we could see the townlet covering a low point projecting into the Sharm; a few large and some small tenements formed the body, whilst the head was the little Burj built, some fourteen years ago, upon the tall sea-bank to the north.
The Land of Midian 2003
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He went one morning by moon-light, and, coming to the sea-bank, undressed himself, and cast in his nets.
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It may be restored to us in broken glimpses, in little stirrings and ripples on the face of the water, in rumours and whispers among the margin-reeds, in sighings of the wind across the sea-bank.
The Complex Vision John Cowper Powys 1917
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On the sea-bank of yellow crumbling earth lizards flashed about me in the sunshine.
By the Ionian Sea George Gissing 1880
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He was born, he said, at Walpole, in Norfolk, on the old Roman sea-bank, between the Wash and the deep Fens.
The Hermits Kingsley, Charles, 1819-1875 1878
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When they had landed on the deep seashore and a sea-bank sheltered from the wind, they strewed their beds, and their hands were busy with firewood.
Theocritus Bion and Moschus Rendered into English Prose 300 BC-260 BC Theocritus 1878
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Pray for the peace of Zion, and pity those poor things who would be content to go from one sea-bank to the other, to be in your place to-day.
The Covenants And The Covenanters Covenants, Sermons, and Documents of the Covenanted Reformation Various 1876
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"Where are you?" shouted Dick, who was ahead now and hurrying along the track that struck off to the big reed-beds and then away over the fen to the sea-bank.
Dick o' the Fens A Tale of the Great East Swamp George Manville Fenn 1870
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