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Example sentences for "the sea"

  • The sea is full of fire on summer nights all the way down from Novastoshnah to Lukannon, and each seal leaves a wake like burning oil behind him and a flaming flash when he jumps, and the waves break in great phosphorescent streaks and swirls.

  • Others told of seeing Tarzan ride upon the back of Tantor, the elephant; of his bringing the black boy, Tibo, to the tribe, and of mysterious things with which he communed in the strange lair by the sea.

  • Once more he sought water, and after drinking deeply, took his way slowly toward the cabin by the sea.

  • Early that morning, Tarzan of the Apes had gone to the cabin by the sea, where he passed many an hour at such times as the tribe was ranging in the vicinity.

  • I will go," volunteered Taug, and an instant later he was off through the Stygian gloom toward the little land-locked harbor by the sea.

  • Down she looked into the depth of the sea.

  • Moreover, her husband walking with a quick rhythmic stride, jerking his free hand occasionally, was either a Viking or a stricken Nelson; the sea-gulls had changed his note.

  • He was here either to get things out of the sea, or to write upon the probable course of Odysseus, for Greek after all was his hobby.

  • The sun was up but was still hid from me behind the great bulk of the Spy-glass, which on this side descended almost to the sea in formidable cliffs.

  • The Sea-chest I LOST no time, of course, in telling my mother all that I knew, and perhaps should have told her long before, and we saw ourselves at once in a difficult and dangerous position.

  • Esdr 4:15 The floods of the sea also in like manner took counsel, and said, Come, let us go up and subdue the woods of the plain, that there also we may make us another country.

  • Then said he unto me, The sea is set in a wide place, that it might be deep and great.

  • The return to the Sea of Omean was uneventful.

  • Begone, but instead of the light of the gardens of Issus let you serve as a slave of this slave who conquered you in the prison on the Isle of Shador in the Sea of Omean.

  • But it is not to be wondered at since no enemy guessed the existence upon Barsoom of such a fleet, or even of the First Born, or the Sea of Omean.

  • The man you may return to the Isle of Shador which lies against the northern shore of the Sea of Omean.

  • His falling body came near to tearing me from the frail hold that my single free hand had upon the anchor chain and plunging me with him to the waters of the sea below.

  • The sea-reach of the Thames stretched before us like the beginning of an interminable waterway.

  • Between us there was, as I have already said somewhere, the bond of the sea.

  • The tidal current runs to and fro in its unceasing service, crowded with memories of men and ships it had borne to the rest of home or to the battles of the sea.

  • All of the sea my own, It owned the sky instead; Both of us were alone.

  • How he sets his bones To bask i' the sun, and thrusts out knees and feet For the ripple to run over in its mirth; Listening the while, where on the heap of stones The white breast of the sea-lark twitters sweet.

  • Then I grasped the paddle, and with feverish haste urged the awkward, wobbly thing out upon the surface of the sea.

  • Our house is high up on the Yorkshire coast, and close by the sea.

  • The sand-hills here run down to the sea, and end in two spits of rock jutting out opposite each other, till you lose sight of them in the water.

  • If the sea, then oozing in smoothly over the Shivering Sand, had been changed into dry land before my own eyes, I doubt if I could have been more surprised than I was when Mr. Franklin spoke those words.

  • Winter and summer, when the tide flows over the quicksand, the sea seems to leave the waves behind it on the bank, and rolls its waters in smoothly with a heave, and covers the sand in silence.

  • The climate, except in the mountainous districts, is comparatively mild, owing to the proximity of much of the shire to the sea.

  • Despite warnings from Daedalus, Icarus soared too near the sun and fell with melted wings to his death in the sea.

  • I looked to the sea, but the whales were gone.

  • I looked to the frozen snapshot of the sea.

  • I parked my Volkswagon Bus at a mall one-and-a-half miles east of campus and walked with Nunatak toward the sea.

  • It was to gaze down the highway of light where the sun lit into the sea.

  • But the Lord took pity on my pain, and He led me to the sea, And some ice-bound whalers heard my moan, and they fed and sheltered me.

  • It is the same when you go to the sea-side.

  • There you dream that an elephant has suddenly sat down on your chest, and that the volcano has exploded and thrown you down to the bottom of the sea - the elephant still sleeping peacefully on your bosom.

  • It was offered round the town at a tremendous reduction, so I am told; and was eventually sold for eighteenpence to a bilious-looking youth who had just been advised by his medical men to go to the sea-side, and take exercise.

  • If you were to stand at night by the sea-shore with Harris, and say: "Hark!

  • It is written in the laws of the sea that a person of my parts must do this labor.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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