To the left stands the white rock of Monaco; to the right, the green Italian shore, fading away into the purple mountains that guard the Gulf of Genoa.
On the left the graceful undulations of the Camaldoli hills descend to the beautifully indented bay of Pozzuoli, which looks like a miniature replica of the parent gulf with the volcano of Monte Nuovo for its Vesuvius.
It is idle to hint to this pious son of Citta Vecchia that it is doubtful whether Paul was ever wrecked in Malta at all, that not unlikely the scene of that notable event was Melita, in the Gulf of Ragusa.
As the Gulf of Spezzia is left behind, the Magra broadens out into an estuary as it enters the sea, the river which formed in olden days the boundary between Liguria and Etruria.
One may say that the Riviera, properly so called, has its origin where the Esterel abuts upon the Gulf of Frejus, and extends as far as the outliers of the Alps skirt the Italian shore of the Mediterranean.
If ever he thought that anyone might have a claim upon him, he took the first opportunity to show him the gulf that lay between.
He would chat with you as with a friend and a brother, and then when he had wiled you into forgetting the gulf which lay between you, he would suddenly, with a word or with a look, remind you that it was as impassable as ever.
The great gulf of the quarry suddenly yawned in front of his path, and glancing at me over his shoulder, he gave a shriek of despair.
The air was delightful, and after we had gone down the Florida coast, and had turned to cross the Gulf Stream to our islands, the weather became positively warm, even out here on the sea, and we were on deck nearly all the time.
France is a body whose heart is on the Gulf of Lyons, and its two arms over Spain and Italy.
That was the essential thing that made the supreme gulf between himself and his companions.
The actual moment of striking his blow had put an impassable gulf between his soul and all the world.
Nor do I honour the memory of Mulcaster for anything so much as his scholar, that gulf of learning, Bishop Andrews.
And thus at length they more than half encompassed the Mediterranean, from the straits of Gibraltar to the Gulf of Venice, and reigned in three quarters of the world.
Meanwhile, the Ottomans were scouring the Gulf of Venice, blockading the ports, and terrifying the city itself.
He burst as a thunder-cloud upon the whole extent of country, now called Turkey in Europe, along a line of more than five hundred miles from the Black Sea to the Gulf of Venice.
This question was recently brought to an issue by the repeated acts of British cruisers in boarding and searching our merchant vessels in the Gulf of Mexico and the adjacent seas.
She occupies an important position between the Gulf and the ocean for transit routes and for commerce.
The island of Anticosta, lying in the mouth of the Gulf of St. Lawrence, runs parallel with the main land on its north shore and about twenty-five miles distant from it.
The Montagnais of the Labrador and North Shore of the Gulf of St. Lawrence, are no exception, and this in a country where most of the wild fowl are killed flying.
The rope was of immense length, and, deep as I had descended, there was yet an immeasurable gulf below me.
While thoughtful and considerate men were speculating upon the causes of diminished prosperity and the general feebleness of the system of government, a gulf suddenly yawned beneath their feet, threatening ruin to the whole social fabric.
The measureless gulf between literature and the American magazine.
Lucile voiced her reproach across the unfathomable gulf which four years could not plumb.
Though he stood within reach of the gunwale, a gulf of three years was between.
If he was the younger I was the stronger, and he summoned me to struggle for my life, or for that chance of life which either of us had upon the gulf of waters.
Her three prizes, followed with every sail set, and two Greek misticos availed themselves of the opportunity of quitting the gulf in order to cruise as privateers between Patras and Missolonghi.
He chose a small bay at the eastern extremity of the Gulf of Corinth, formed in the rocky precipices of Mount Geranion, and open to the Alcyonian sea.
You have been good enough to volunteer to proceed into the Gulf of Lepanto, into which, under existing circumstances, I should not have ordered the Perseverance (Karteria.
The principal object which detained the Karteria in the gulf had been to assist the movements of General Church, who now resolved to cross over to Acarnania from Cape Papas.
On approaching the roadstead, a brig heavily laden was seen at anchor, which had evidently arrived the preceding night, little expecting that the Greek squadron would quit the gulf in the daytime.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "gulf" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
