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shoreless
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Definition:boundless---Defn: Having no shore or coast; of indefinite or unlimited extent;Noah Webster. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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References were extensive even here, but not altogether shoreless; and sentences were actually to be written in the shape wherein they would be scanned by Brasenose and a less formidable posterity.
George Eliot. Middlemarch
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—Our earthly fire again, no matter how fierce or widespread it may be, is always of a limited extent: but the lake of fire in hell is boundless, shoreless and bottomless.
James Joyce. A Portait of the Artist as a Young Man
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