Example Sentences

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No one walked along the cliffs except the coastguardsmen.

From Parkhurst Boys And Other Stories of School Life by Reed, Talbot Baines

Seeing all my packages, the coastguardsmen naturally took us for smugglers, and were soon on the spot to seize our goods and carry them to the custom-house.

From Story of My Life, volumes 1-3 by Hare, Augustus J. C.

Just as the Captain called out, a couple of coastguardsmen were coming round the corner of the castle on their beat towards the east pier; and, hearing his shout to Rover, they stopped.

From Bob Strong's Holidays Adrift in the Channel by Greene, John B.

Since then I have visited it in fair weather and foul; and in time, perhaps, shall rival the coastguardsmen, who can walk it blindfold.

From Noughts and Crosses Stories, Studies and Sketches by Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, Sir

The coastguardsmen haul on the whip, and off goes our ’prentice boy like a seagull.

From Battles with the Sea by Ballantyne, R. M. (Robert Michael)