A few steps from this wild shore, the visitor returning to the lagoon at dusk is treated to an astonishing spectacle.

Local historian Elaine Peterson describes the wild shores of Montauk in the 1880s.

At 18 or 20, we prefer wilder shores and a more ecstatic mode of expression.

It was a powerful mental pressure, drawing him inward, calling him toward the wild shore behind the surf-line.

But the randomness of this wild shore confused and frightened him.

It could not be savage raiders from over the sea, or from the wild shores of Erin.

He made several klicks that day, picking a way along the crest, his eyes on the alien beauty of the wild shore.

A wild shore and a forbidding one, to arouse Shann's distrust, perhaps a fitting goal for that disk's guiding.

Now, sitting by the campfire on this wild and savage shore, she reached out to touch Dorian.

"Had I a cave on some wild, distant shore ..."