When the bow of the boat touched shore, we pulled ourselves on board.
THE wave of economic reforms that has washed over Latin America first touched shore in Chile.
In June, the full effect of the financial crisis touched shore with the effect of a hurricane.
My father leapt off the boat as it touched shore, gun in hand, and made a long detour around the sandbar where the mugger lay, balancing its extreme wiliness against its cold-blooded craving for a hot sunbath.
By the time our dinghy touched shore, he had recognized me and said, "Welcome home!" After lunch, we set up mist nets — fine black nylon netting used to capture birds — in the gardens behind the village.
Though the county was spared the devastation experienced in the Rockaways, on Staten Island and on parts of Long Island, six days after Hurricane Sandy touched shore, life was still far from normal for many residents, even as they watched the power go back on in more populous regions.
Over the course of the last week, our "Saving the Ocean" video crew touched shores and reefs of the Bahamas, Florida and Mexico.
In his journal he writes of the sea touching the shore, the taste of two metals at the same time, "our enlarged powers in the presence... of a friend".
With a deep-green expanse of water, touching the shore in a shallow scalloped edge and highlighted by a tiny pinpoint of light at mid-horizon, it is almost a still life of the sea.
Fifteen years that dawned with terror touching our shores".
