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Why could I not have thought of the tide when we were beaching the boat?

From More About Peggy by Unknown

"I did not see them until they were beaching the boats," replied his white-faced companion.

From Nedra by McCutcheon, George Barr

Then I sprang forth of the rocks and strode down where these lawless fellows were beaching their boat.

From Martin Conisby's Vengeance by Farnol, Jeffery

"We pulled for the nearest land, and all our twenty-five men got ashore safe, although both lifeboats were badly smashed up in the surf as we were beaching them."

From Kelly Miller's History of the World War for Human Rights by Miller, Kelly