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Definition of Coasted
1. coast [v] - See also: coast
Lexicographical Neighbors of Coasted
Literary usage of Coasted
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides, Henry Dale, Thomas Arnold (1873)
"... they still coasted on, though it was late in the night, and arrived at ...
and keeping closo under the shore of the Chersonese, they coasted ..."
2. Works Issued by the Hakluyt Society by Hakluyt Society (1847)
"... which is easily proved, because one of its four sides which I myself coasted
in a direct line, from west to east, measures five hundred and forty miles. ..."
3. American Annals: Or, a Chronological History of America, from Its Discovery by Abiel Holmes (1805)
"Going on shore," but not finding sound,' and coasted along the north side of it ;
object of their voyage, they sailed into a large but, not satisfied in ..."
4. Annals of the American Revolution: Or, A Record of the Causes and Events by Jedidiah Morse (1824)
"... they fell in with the north side of Labrador, and coasted northerly as far as
the 66th degree of N. latitude, where they were stopped by the ice, ..."
5. The Chronicle of the Discovery and Conquest of Guinea by Gomes Eanes de Zurara, Charles Raymond Beazley (1899)
"hills,1 and a little beyond this, a great estuary.4 Five days more to the south
brought him to the Western Horn,3 and on the other side of this he coasted ..."
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