Storms in 2007 and 2008 battered the shore.
Rocks, reefs and sandbanks lie in wait for unsuspecting vessels, violent weather regularly batters the shore and, before the introduction of accurate charts, navigation was an often haphazard science.
And much later, in the last paragraph of the book: "When I'm in doubt, I think of those waves battering the shore – and beyond them, the calm and peace in the distance.
"None of us can forget how we felt when those winds battered the shore, the floodwaters began to rise and Americans were stranded on rooftops and in stadiums," Mr. Obama said.
In addition, high surf battered the shore.
The brunt of the storm occurred in southeastern New England, particularly coastal Massachusetts, where strong gusts battered the shore.
The barometer fell to 961 mbar (hPa; 28.4 inHg), and extremely high waves battered the shore from Flamingo to Cape Romano.
The sea off the peninsula is freezing less so more icebergs are battering the shores, smashing the creatures that live there.
The sound of the water so softly battering Against the shore is decidedly sexual, In its liquidity, its regularity, Its persistence, its infantile obliviousness.
Several months before Hurricane Sandy battered the New Jersey Shore and the New York City region in 2012, she warned that the area was vulnerable to storm surges, which are destructive amounts of coastal water driven inland by storms.
