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Coast

noun

The shore of a sea or ocean. Synonyms: sea-coast, seacoast, seashore.

A slope down which sleds may coast.

The area within view.

The act of moving smoothly along a surface while remaining in contact with it. Synonyms: glide, slide. "The children lined up for a coast down the snowy slope"

verb

(past & past part. coasted; pres. part. coasting)

Move effortlessly; by force of gravity.

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"Coast" Quotes from Famous Books

... joined in this work by her sister; and the enthusiasm and good judgment shown by the two inspired others, and made the famous "Silver Street Kindergarten" not only a great object lesson on the Pacific Coast, but an inspiration to similar efforts in Japan, Australia, New Zealand, British ...

— Polly Oliver's Problem • Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin

... it from a photograph. The last time it was used was in 1813, when a publican was put in it for aiding the escape of General Phillippon, a French prisoner of war, who had been brought to this old Sussex town. The pillory was erected on the beach, and the face of the culprit turned to the coast of France. Mr. Holloway, the local historian, supplied the late Mr. Llewellyn Jewitt with some particulars respecting this example. "It measures," says Mr. Holloway, "about six feet in height, by four in width. ...

— Bygone Punishments • William Andrews

... schooner with Mr. Thurston on board, and fifty- five natives for Fiji. On the north coast was the 'Isabella,' with twenty-five for Queensland. The master gave Captain Jacob his credentials to show to the Bishop, and said the Bishop might come on board and talk to the people, so as to be convinced they came willingly, ...

— Life of John Coleridge Patteson • Charlotte M. Yonge

... and northwest coast of Ireland shows many remarkable geological formations, but, excepting the Giant's Causeway, no more striking spectacle is presented than that to the south of Galway Bay. From the sea, the mountains rise in terraces ...

— Irish Wonders • D. R. McAnally, Jr.

... health and did not stand the Northern winters well, the whole family left for a few months' stay at their bungalow home in Florida. They were quite close to the little village of Bay Head, on the Gulf coast. I kept in ...

— The Fire People • Ray Cummings

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