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Then they will retreat inland, while we hide overnight in a place that has been selected.

"We could always retreat inland through Marquewood under a pledge of safe passage," the Baron suggested hopefully.

The area was covered with sand about 5,000 years ago as the coast retreated inland, becoming a part of the city's present coastline.

As sea levels rose over the centuries, due to the slow sinking of the south-east of England, the marshes gradually retreated inland.

The Mulefa have no defence against Tualapi; retreating inland during attacks.

The mountains along the shore retreated inland, giving place to low rolling hills and an occasional beach of wave-scoured granite boulders.

On natural beaches, this overwash is a benign process, one way beaches retreat inland to defend themselves against rising sea levels.

If he had done surveillance along a coastline, he retreated inland for a short time.

Knowing that the battle was lost, van den Berg ordered his remaining troops to retreat inland and start a guerrilla war.