We were travelling coastwise.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

Adverb : We sailed coastwise for days before finding a harbor.    From Dictionary.com. 

That our good ships which coastwise trade would ply.    From Wordnik.com.  ['A Comedy of Errors' in Seven Acts] Reference

No goods could be carried coastwise from one part of the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Manual of Ship Subsidies] Reference

Two days of steady coastwise traveling brought them to a great bay.    From Wordnik.com.  [Star Born] Reference

But there were coastwise skippers I would have returned and killed when.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 10] Reference

P.S. -- I leave my chief-quartermaster and commissary behind to follow coastwise.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference

Light, to outlive the tidal currents and maintain itself as a constant coastwise stream.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 3, No. 1 January 1863 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference

He could get no further coastwise; Pelusion was well defended by the salt-march between.    From Wordnik.com.  [Funeral Games]

Every incoming coastwise vessel was boarded by the union officials and its crew sent ashore.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter VII] Reference

'Within reach of the Welsh coast, waiting for a ship to carry them coastwise round to France.    From Wordnik.com.  [One Corpse Too Many]

A coastwise freighter, several commercial fishing boats, and a small cruiser hove into sight.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tom Swift Jr And His Jetmarine]

Several coastwise ships of sizable tonnage passed above, but the boys did not sight the yacht.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tom Swift Jr And His Jetmarine]

The freight carried in the coastwise trade of the Great Lakes in 1890 aggregated 28,295,959 tons.    From Wordnik.com.  [State of the Union Address (1790-2001)] Reference

Now will there be five, six of the coastwise lords tearing at each other's flanks to take his place.    From Wordnik.com.  [Web Of The Witch World]

Sure enough the expedition set out against Dionysios 'troops, the fleet coastwise, the troops inland.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mask of Apollo]

The United States confines the coastwise trade to American ships, and these are exempted from tonnage dues.    From Wordnik.com.  [Manual of Ship Subsidies] Reference

It is doubtful whether this form of coastwise trading can be regarded as an economic business in these days.    From Wordnik.com.  [Movie Night] Reference

Ebenezer, who was established in a prosperous coastwise shipping trade, dealing largely with the West Indies.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Portrait of Old George Town] Reference

Those who served the Foanna sometimes took sea roads and they had slim, fast cutters for such coastwise travel.    From Wordnik.com.  [Key Out of Time] Reference

Then there were companies, primarily in Charleston, that handled the trade from there on up, coastwise shipping.    From Wordnik.com.  [Oral History Interview with John Raymond Shute, June 25, 1982. Interview B-0054-1. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)] Reference

When it is remembered that the coastwise fleet numbers many steamers of 2,000 to 3,000 tons and many sailing craft of.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scientific American Supplement, No. 1157, March 5, 1898] Reference

Channel, which now lies five miles away across a mud-flat plain, although coastwise shipping once came to Rye's very door-step.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Automobilist Abroad] Reference

They were to put out to sea, and go coastwise right from the Indus to the Tigris, looking for coastal towns or sites for ports.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Persian Boy]

Its regulatory powers should be amended to include regulation of coastwise shipping so as to assure stability and better service.    From Wordnik.com.  [State of the Union Address (1790-2001)] Reference

Maybe, as our skill grows, we can advance to larger vessels and longer trips, begin re-opening coastwise trade routes" "He went on.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Magic May Return]

American coastwise trade on the ground that it violates British rights tinder the Hay-Pauncefote treaty concerning the Panama Canal.    From Wordnik.com.  [State of the Union Address (1790-2001)] Reference

The lights below made me think of home and my wife and little ones sleeping safely, I hoped, close to the coastwise lights of the Old.    From Wordnik.com.  [Danger Signals Remarkable, Exciting and Unique Examples of the Bravery, Daring and Stoicism in the Midst of Danger of Train Dispatchers and Railroad Engineers] Reference

Ebenezer Dodge had come from Salem, Massachusetts, and built up a successful coastwise trade with the East Indies, his younger brother.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Portrait of Old George Town] Reference

A statute in force, enacted April 15, 1904, suspends the operation of the coastwise laws of the United States upon the trade between the.    From Wordnik.com.  [State of the Union Address (1790-2001)] Reference

There actually were a few submarines lurking about the pathways of our coastwise shipping; but, as usual, the Hun's boast came to naught.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ruth Fielding Down East Or, The Hermit of Beach Plum Point] Reference

Ships-of-the-line, frigates, and sloops patrolled the entrances to all the seaports, terminating not only foreign but coastwise commerce.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Wars Between England and America] Reference

In our coastwise trade a most encouraging development is in progress, there having been in the last four years an increase of 16 per cent.    From Wordnik.com.  [State of the Union Address (1790-2001)] Reference

An act passed in 1912 had exempted American coastwise shipping passing through the Canal from the tolls assessed on other vessels, and the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Woodrow Wilson as I Know Him] Reference

Half the houses became ruinous, and the population had decreased to an alarming extent when that saviour of half the old coastwise towns of.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wanderings in Wessex An Exploration of the Southern Realm from Itchen to Otter] Reference

Also, there was a thriving coastwise trade, up to old Salem and Newburyport where the clipper ships were built, and down to the West Indies.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Portrait of Old George Town] Reference

In the midst of these untoward events, the "Tarlac," coastwise transport blew into the bay through the murk and rain, and Captain North, of "B".    From Wordnik.com.  [McClure's Magazine, Vol. XXXI, No. 3, July 1908.] Reference

Coal from the Oviedo mines is exported coastwise, and in 1904 the shipments from Avilés for the first time exceeded those from Gijón, reaching a total of more than 290,000 tons.    From Wordnik.com.  [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon"] Reference