Agnostic at sea, cruising

Usage examples of coasting.

The MACQUARIE only does a coasting trade between Eden and Auckland, and Halley is so at home in these waters that he takes no observations.

He said nothing to Sarah until they were coasting over the Biloxi Bay bridge and reentering the town of Biloxi.

The staple industry is boatbuilding, and there is an active coasting trade in fish, wine, wood and coal.

Mama was making a grab for the edge of the dining room table coasting toward her, but he could see behind her, see the huge breakfront Daddy had bought her for an anniversary gift slowly toppling away from the wall.

After that we will be coasting back in toward Flyspeck, and considering our other options for getting this nasty situation handled.

He knew why she had died with such a smile, coasting high above the universe with galaxies jewels at her feet, transported in an ecstasy greater than any he had ever known from the juices of her body.

CHAPTER XXVI HELP FOR HALL THE OLD TIDAL harbour of Sturton, used only by the smallest coasting craft and longshore fishing boats nowadays, had ramps of rock on either side the mouth.

This came to such a pass that a ship returning from this city to that of Macan, whence it had come with merchandise, with some Portuguese aboard it, while coasting along the Ilocan shore some two years ago, sighted two ships of the Sangleys, which were coming from China laden with merchandise to this city.

River Taiping, coasting along the edge of the high land on the left bank of the river.

The first tanks of his own platoon passed the ledge, rose as though coasting over the swell of a wave, then tilted downward.

Hair coasting over the juncture of jawbone and ear, slightly upcurled, the palest of browns.

And Saxon, glimpsing him sidewise, as he watched the horses and their way on the Sunday morning streets, checking them back suddenly and swerving to avoid two boys coasting across street on a toy wagon, saw in him deeps and intensities, all the magic connotations of temperament, the glimmer and hint of rages profound, bleaknesses as cold and far as the stars, savagery as keen as a wolf's and clean as a stallion's, wrath as implacable as a destroying angel's, and youth that was fire and life beyond time and place.

On screen, with magnification, you could just see them, two sparks coasting inward in RV Trianguli's hot blue light.

The heavy cruisers Star Ranger and Blackstone were reduced to crippled hulks, coasting onward ballistically without power or drives.

Soon, however, a man in a canoe, who had been coasting, unseen, along the indentures of the shore, and whom Claud instantly recognized as Phillips, the hunter already named, shot round a neighboring point, and, in a few minutes more, was at his side.