In this they correspond exactly to the oversea Elysium, the divine land.
The underground brugs are the gods' land, in all respects resembling the oversea Elysium, and at once burial-places of the euhemerised gods and local forms of the divine land.
As champions of Leinster they fight the men of Ulster and Connaught, but they also war against oversea invaders--the Lochlanners.
His position as god of the sea may have given rise to the belief that he was ruler of the oversea Elysium, and, later, of the other-world as a magical domain coterminous with this earth.
A wonderful oversea land is also found in Märchen and tradition, and Tír na n-Og is still a living reality to the Celt.
These obscure notices do not necessarily denote that he was ruler of an oversea Elysium.
Hence in many popular tales it is hardly differentiated from the island Elysium; oversea and under-waves are often synonymous.
While the new situation attracted me by its promise of convenient and protected winter practice the prospect of doing some oversea navigation with my air-ship was even more alluring.
Even to the spherical balloonist the oversea problem has great temptations, concerning which an expert of the French Navy has said: "The balloon can render the navy immense services, on condition that its direction can be assured.
Hence Caesar had no occasion to concern himself with the security of his communications across the sea--a consideration which weighs with overwhelming force on the commander of a modern oversea expedition.
There was no national sense of pride in colonial Empire, or general appreciation of the great potentialities of oversea possessions.
But Napoleon's oversea move of nine years later was rash in the extreme.
She could only establishoversea possessions on a durable foundation on the condition of renouncing the policy of invasion that she practised in Europe during the centuries.
They ferried to Daneland The excellent woman on oversea journey, {The lay is concluded, and the main story is resumed.
The opening of 1891 saw Germany with ample territory oversea to accommodate surplus population; while we, secure in our own strength, with amused tolerance, allowed her to climb to "her place in the sun.
In the year 1882 the German Colonisation Society was started, with the object of acquiring Colonies oversea and the establishment of a navy and mercantile marine to form the link binding the isolated territories to the motherland.
Buenos Aires is the intermediary between the provinces and oversea countries.
At all events, they do enable us to distinguish between ports exclusively devoted to river traffic and those with direct relations to oversea ports.
It is at Buenos Aires that the hides, tobacco and timber and extracts of quebracho for oversea markets, shipped on schooners in the upper reaches of the river which are impassable for steamers, are trans-shipped for abroad.
In Argentina, on the contrary, everything speaks of the close and direct dependence of the country uponoversea markets.
The first thing to be observed is that the British monopoly of shipping and of oversea trade has disappeared.
She was herself anxious for oversea possessions and spheres of influence, and appears to have thought that if Morocco was to become a European protectorate she ought to have a voice in any settlement.
Colonization is an important factor, as conquest and settlement oversea .
For that reason we find the comparatively early use of minted money, and the commercial treaties of states oversea with Rome.
It is a blow," said the Oversea Prime Ministers, "but it will only serve to nerve us to greater efforts toward the final victory.
But it does not appear that the Imperial Court in Yamato paid much attention to oversea countries in early eras.
In fact, Yoshimitsu showed himself thoroughly earnest in promoting oversea commerce, and a considerable measure of success attended his efforts.
A military expedition oversea led by a sovereign in person had not been heard of since the days of Jimmu, and to reconcile officials and troops to such an undertaking the element of divine revelation had to be introduced.
Chikafusa himself led the overseaexpedition to the Kwanto, but the flotilla was wrecked by a storm, and he reached Yedo Bay with only a small following.
These wanderers, being an agricultural, not a maritime, race, did not contribute much to the peopling of the oversea islands of Japan.
Others do not hesitate to allege that this oversea campaign was designed for the purpose of assisting to exterminate the Christian converts.
Up to 1593 the Portuguese had possessed a monopoly of religious propagandism and oversea commerce in Japan.
The Ming sovereign immediately attempted to establish tradal intercourse with Japan, but the negotiations failed, and not until 1392 is there any record of oversea relations.
The northern ports of the Central Powers were closed to commerce with all but the Scandinavian countries, and the oversea German possessions, where they were accessible to naval attack, had been taken from her.
British and other allied ships were unable to inflict damage on the coast defenses of Germany, but the latter in two successful raids had been able to bombard British coast towns, offsetting in a way the loss of oversea dominions.
In the emergency, as Minister of War, the responsibility for the transport of a British army oversea rested in his hands.
Great tasks oversea have fallen to the lot of the newly arisen German Empire, tasks far greater than many of my countrymen have expected.
Railways have been constructed in the older farming districts, produce is carried at moderate rates, and subsidies are given to steamship companies for the carriage of produce to oversea markets.
Similar over-estimating had occurred previously, it is understood, through many oversea departures not being recorded by those who supplied information to the department.
Speedily production overtook the local consumption, importations ceased, and manufacturers began to look oversea for a market for their surplus stocks.
Cereals and root crops are produced in the Southern and Central West districts equal in quality and yield to the crops in the Southern States and oversea countries.
It created a vagrant mobile mass of labour, which helped to meet the demands of new industrial markets and to feed English oversea enterprise.
Lefort which said in part: "The Municipality of Rheims would like to express to you and the Women's Oversea Hospitals its profound gratitude for the splendid assistance you have given our population.
Mrs. Shuler told of the Oversea Hospitals, which are considered in another chapter.
A report that was heard with the deepest interest was that of the Oversea Hospitals in France, by Mrs. Raymond Brown, general director, and Mrs. Charles L.
The way was rapidly cleared for a steady movement of coal to tidewater for bunkering ships loaded with supplies for the American oversea forces and for the Allies, as well as for supplying domestic fuel needs.
Nevertheless, they cannot be ignored, if only for the reason that they came nearer to effecting a landing in force than any other of England’s oversea foes since that period.
In 369 he cleared the north, and, so Claudian tells us, pursued the enemy oversea to their refuges--presumably the Irish coast and the Hebrides.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "oversea" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
