shoreward

“When he felt him grasp his tail, Buck headed for the bank, swimming with all his splendid strength. But the progress shoreward was slow; the progress down-stream amazingly rapid.”

“The shoreward arms of the north and south cantilevers were built into masonry abutments.”

“If their enemies were really on the watch, if they had beleaguered the shoreward end of the pier, he and Lord Foxham were taken in a posture of poor defence […]”

“Felixstowe's pier was cut short during the Second World War as an anti-invasion measure. Although its pierhead was subsequently demolished in the 1950s, a new £3 million shoreward building opened in August 2017.”

“"Courage!" he said, and pointed toward the land, / "This mounting wave will roll us shoreward soon."”

“[…] when they sawe our boates comming to the shoreward, they began to runne away, with a great clamour and outcrie […]”