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Definition of Coasts

1. coast [v] - See also: coast

Lexicographical Neighbors of Coasts

Literary usage of Coasts

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Voyage of the Beagle by Charles Darwin (1909)
"CLIMATE OF THE SOUTHERN coasts Strait of Magellan—Port Famine—Ascent of Mount Tarn—Forests — Edible Fungus — Zoology — Great Sea-weed — Leave Tierra del ..."

2. Elements of International Law by Henry Wheaton (1904)
"Extent of the neutral jurisdiction along the coasts and within the bays and rivers. importance as to deserve your Majesty's declaration and assertion of ..."

3. The Harleian Miscellany; Or, A Collection of Scarce, Curious, and by William Oldys, John Malham (1809)
"This is not only testified by the ensuing informations, but confirmed by very late discoveries made of their wrecks on those coasts. ..."

4. Proceedings by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain), Norton Shaw, Francis Galton, William Spottiswoode, Clements Robert Markham, Henry Walter Bates, John Scott Keltie (1881)
"The usual horse sickness peculiar to the country is also very bad here. Journey along the coasts of New Ireland and Neighbouring Islands. By the Kev. ..."

5. Proceedings by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain), Norton Shaw, Francis Galton, William Spottiswoode, Clements Robert Markham, Henry Walter Bates, John Scott Keltie (1883)
"Visits to the Eastern and North-eastern coasts of New Guinea. ... of considerable portions of the coasts, were adopted by the Hydrographical Department, ..."

6. A History of Greece to the Death of Alexander the Great by John Bagnell Bury (1913)
"COLONIES ox THE coasts OF THE EUXINE, PROPONTIS, AND NORTH AEGEAN The voyage of the Argonauts in quest of the golden fleece com- Legend of ..."

7. The Harvard Classics by Charles William Eliot (1909)
"CLIMATE OF THE SOUTHERN coasts Strait of Magellan—Port Famine—Ascent of Mount Tarn—Forests — Edible Fungus — Zoology — Great Sea-weed — Leave Tierra del ..."

8. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"In 1805 they had reached up the Ganges valley as far as Delhi, and in the south from Madras as far as Bellary and along the Kanara coasts. ..."

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