Away from the coast

Usage examples of inland.

He was working gypsy construction jobs by day and playing at night with the Corvairs, never anyplace near the surf but inland, for this sun-beat farm country had always welcomed them, beer riders of the valleys having found strange affinities with surfers and their music.

Half an hour later, when they reached the tidal limits of the river, some ten miles inland, Aragon slowed down so that they could watch the water more closely.

The burning sun of Syria had not yet attained its highest point in the horizon, when a knight of the Red Cross, who had left his distant northern home and joined the host of the Crusaders in Palestine, was pacing slowly along the sandy deserts which lie in the vicinity of the Dead Sea, or, as it is called, the Lake Asphaltites, where the waves of the Jordan pour themselves into an inland sea, from which there is no discharge of waters.

Besides, after building a few bombs in the back lot, I loved the idea of working with real explosives, and that did have civilian applications with all the inland construction going on as we developed the continent.

With Bas and the archer, Cormac moved inland, well above the level of the beach, the valley of the castle, and his own men.

Farther inland, its sides were low, begrown to the very edge of the water.

Located at the tip of a peninsula extending into one of the great inland silt basins, Bodach was a city of the undead.

French coast in clear daylight, penetrated thirty miles inland, and bombed a railway marshalling yard near Rouen.

United States submarines Thread-fin and Hackleback, on the evening of 6 April, reported a sizeable force debouching from Bungo Suido, the southern entrance to the Inland Sea.

That morning, the doctor wind swept a swarm of barnacle flies inland, and when the bureaucrat awoke, the houseboat was encrusted with their shells.

They have been for several generations the middle men between the white traders on the coast and the inland tribes of the Cross river and Calabar district.

This was the capital of the Chumar and lay several days inland above the great scarp.

The northern shore was cliffy, and inland from the escarpments the forested hillside was broken by deep gullies.

Capped with brown crust, falling bluff inland, and sloping towards the main, where the usual stone-heaps act as sea-marks, this bank of yellowish-white coralline, measuring 310 metres by half that width, may be the remains of the bed in which the torrents carved out the port.

The shelve of the beach saved the cave from being flooded and the beetling of the cliff kept it dry and within a couple of feet of the entrance but it could not keep out the rain smell, the raw smell of Kerguelen carried from inland, the smell of bog patches and new washed dolerite and bitter vegetation, keen, like the smell of the Stone Age.