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adjective

Inland adj.

Within the land; more or less remote from the ocean or from open water; interior; as, an inland town. "This wide inland sea." "From inland regions to the distant main."

Limited to the land, or to inland routes; within the seashore boundary; not passing on, or over, the sea; as, inland transportation, commerce, navigation, etc.

Confined to a country or state; domestic; not foreign; as, an inland bill of exchange. See Exchange.

adverb

Inland adv. Into, or towards, the interior, away from the coast. "The greatest waves of population have rolled inland from the east."

noun

Inland n. The interior part of a country.

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... shrubs; but the timber was all stunted and bushy; it led a life of conflict; the trees were accustomed to swing there all night long in fierce winter tempests; and even in early spring, the leaves were already flying, and autumn was beginning, in this exposed plantation. Inland the ground rose into a little hill, which, along with the islet, served as a sailing mark for seamen. When the hill was open of the islet to the north, vessels must bear well to the eastward to clear Graden Ness and the ...

— New Arabian Nights • Robert Louis Stevenson

... walls and towers of Joppa, garrisoned the place. Then late in the autumn (truthfully, too late) they struck inland over a rolling grass country towards Blanchegarde, a white castle on a green hill. Moving slowly and cautiously, they pushed on to Ramleh, thence to Betenoble, which is actually within two days' march of Jerusalem. The month was October, mellow autumn weather. King Richard, moved by ...

— The Life and Death of Richard Yea-and-Nay • Maurice Hewlett

... proceeded inland, materially altered its features. Forests of large trees and fragments of rocks met their view, instead of the paddy-fields, which they had left behind; and Macallan now wished to descend, that he might collect geological specimens. Explaining his reasons, he desired the interpreter to order ...

— The King's Own • Captain Frederick Marryat

... promptly executed the manoeuvre indicated, and gained the rising ground. The view thence inland was more extended, and at no great distance a road crossed, along which was seen a long line of native carts, toiling painfully, and escorted by a few ...

— The Thin Red Line; and Blue Blood • Arthur Griffiths

... has aided and abetted the 'perfect lady,'" said Daniel d'Arthez. "The aristocracy has acknowledged her by retreating to the recesses of its landed estates, where it has hidden itself to die—emigrating inland before the march of ideas, as of old to foreign lands before that of the masses. The women who could have founded European salons, could have guided opinion and turned it inside out like a glove, could have ruled the world by ruling the men of art or of intellect ...

— Another Study of Woman • Honore de Balzac

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