The great Caesar landing in Egypt fell flat on his face in the wet shore. you can imagine the consternation of his officers, until the great and resourceful man shouted, Africa I've got you!

And in others it is a flat stream that loses itself in angles and bends and lingers before it reaches the shore.

I pointed to where our village lay, on the flat in-shore among the alder-trees and pollards, a mile or more from the church.