Example Sentences

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To our right is a small island sprouting trees; to our left, the beachless coast lined with a sheer vertical jungle, as though someone has painted a rain forest onto the white cliffs of Dover.

From Washington Post • Jun. 4, 2015

White clouds of the dawn, not moving yet waning, Wreathed the high peaks about; and the sea beat for ever 'Gainst the green sloping hills and the black rocks and beachless.

From Poems By The Way & Love Is Enough by Morris, William

Who has not dreamed of the majestic sights to be seen on those beachless shores, of that multitude of creeks and inlets and little bays, no two of them alike, yet all trackless abysses?

From Seraphita by Balzac, Honoré de

Who has not dreamed of the majestic spectacle of these beachless shores, these endless creeks, and inlets, and little bays, no two of which are alike, and each a pathless gulf?

From The Works of Honor? de Balzac About Catherine de' Medici, Seraphita and Other Stories by Balzac, Honor? de