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shoreless

(ˈʃɔːlɪs)
adj
1. (Nautical Terms) without a shore suitable for landing
2. poetic boundless; vast: the shoreless wastes.
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shore•less

(ˈʃɔr lɪs, ˈʃoʊr-)

adj.
1. limitless; boundless.
2. without a shore or beach suitable for landing.
[1620–30]
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References in classic literature ?
But as in landlessness alone resides the highest truth, shoreless, indefinite as God --so, better is it to perish in that howling infinite, than be ingloriously dashed upon the lee, even if that were safety!
In three minutes, a whole mile of shoreless ocean was between Pip and Stubb.
A little bit later, the party stood upon the wee pedestal of the very summit, in a driving wind, and looked out upon the vast green expanses of Italy and a shoreless ocean of billowy Alps.
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.
There, he was humble enough to confess to himself, was a chartless, shoreless sea, about which he knew nothing and which he must nevertheless somehow navigate.
"The world ends there," say they; "beyond there is nothing but a shoreless sea." It is unmitigated East where they live.
Away from the sight of your face my heart knows no rest, and my work stretches into a shoreless sea of toil.
Therese writes, "O Jesus, the soul who plunges into the shoreless ocean of Your Love, draws with her all the treasures she possesses...
Rather, what is left of pain when only nerve fibers are there to manage it, for Paulas mind now drifts the shoreless opiate seas.
These include 'Grow Your Medical Practice and Get Your Life Back', 'The Shoreless River', 'Chutti Ke Din' to name a few.( ANI )