Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An obsolete form of
strand .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete Strand; beach.
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- noun obsolete A
beach ; astrand .
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Examples
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Foster held his own as Charlie Prince against strond performances by standouts Russel Crowe and Christian Bale.
Who Will Replace Joaquin Phoenix? | Heretical Ideas Magazine 2008
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That is unprecedented and indicative of Kerry's strond candidacy.
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That is unprecedented and indicative of Kerry's strond candidacy.
Election Central | Talking Points Memo | Election Central Debate Roundup 2009
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Circumstances decades ago forged a strond bond among the three women, and it's about to be tested.
Review: The Three Miss Margarets tinylittlelibrarian 2008
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Circumstances decades ago forged a strond bond among the three women, and it's about to be tested.
Archive 2008-05-01 tinylittlelibrarian 2008
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The Ship being thus split, and more then halfe full of water, tossed and tormented by the blustring windes, first one way, and then another: was at last driven into a strond of the Isle Majorica, no other persons therein remaining, but onely the Lady and her women, all of them (through the rude tempest, and their owne conceived feare) lying still, as if they were more then halfe dead.
The Decameron 2004
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Hewed out hauens on euery strond, enlarged crieques, opened rodes, and digged out herborowes, where their shippes mighte ride saulfe fro the storme.
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Notwithstanding the enemy no lesse couragious, would not yet leaue the strond, so that some of our souldiours and mariners lost their liues before the enemy would retire: for the place was discommodious, and hard to lande, but most of the enemy were slaine, to the number of 30. or 36. and the
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Our men now hauing won the strond, put themselues presently in battell ray; the empty boates returned to the ships, but after our people had taken the strond, the castle did neuer shoot shot.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Spaniards came out of the towne with a flag of truce to the strond, directly ouer against our ships, whereof 2. were brought aboorde the Generall in one of our long boates, (the other two with their flag of truce were left behinde on the stronde) which remained with the Generall vntil the euening, and then were set on shore, and so the 4.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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