The upper part of the town had grown more calm, but from the seafront came frightful shrieks.
"Naples Past and Present"
Arthur H. Norway
Off the nervous ones went, and left the big hotel, the long curved seafront, the miles of yellow sand, the high green headlands, the best golf-links in the East of England, and all the other attractions mentioned in the hotel advertisements, to a handful of people, who were too nerve-proof, lazy, fatalistic, or indifferent to bother about Zeppelins.
"The Shrieking Pit"
Arthur J. Rees
He could even hear the clatter of a belated vehicle driving along the seafront.
"Light Freights, Complete"
W. W. Jacobs