When finished a toast is proposed: "The Freedom of the Seas," and drunk with enthusiasm.
Ay, even afloat his concentrations work: Two vast united squadrons of his sail Move at this moment viewless on the seas.
Thereupon wild Kaukomieli Pushed his boat upon the waters; Like the serpent through the heather, Like the creeping of the adder, Sails the boat away to Pohya, O'er the seas of Sariola.
The natural course of all waters is downward, wherefore of congruence they fall that way where they find the earth most low and deep: in respect whereof, it was erst said, the seas do strike from the northern lands southerly.
The crippling of the naval power of Spain left England mistress of the seas.
In the present chapter we wish to tell how she pushed her lines out to the seas on every side,--to the Caspian, the Euxine, and the Baltic.
The real meaning of the Truce was that Athens gave up her ambition to establish a land empire, and was henceforth to be content with supremacy on the seas.
Roman conquests in Africa, Spain, and especially in Greece and Asia Minor, had caused thousands of adventurous spirits from those maritime countries to flee to their ships, and seek a livelihood by preying upon the commerce of the seas.
I called out again and again, as the seas crashed on the cabin over my head.
If the Spray discovered no continents on her voyage, it may be that there were no more continents to be discovered; she did not seek new worlds, or sail to powwow about the dangers of the seas.
For they made not Sicily the end of the war, but rather its starting point and head-quarters from whence they might carry it to the Carthaginians, and possess themselves of Africa, and of the seas as far as the pillars of Hercules.
Now sunk the west, and now a southern breeze, More dreadful than the tempest lash'd the seas; For on the rocks it bore where Scylla raves, And dire Charybdis rolls her thundering waves.
What vows repentant will the power appease, To speed a prosperous voyage o'er the seas.
We have always looked to the navy of the country as our first and chief line of defense; we have always seen it to be our manifest course of prudence to be strong on the seas.
It is high time we repaired our mistake and resumed our commercial independence on the seas.
Their lines of trade have hitherto run chiefly athwart the seas, not to our ports but to the ports of Great Britain and of the older continent of Europe.
The freedom ofthe seas is the sine qua non of peace, equality, and cooperation.
It need not be difficult to define or to secure the freedom of the seasif the Governments of the world sincerely desire to come to an agreement concerning it.
The old Congress went out in disgrace, talking to death a bill to enable the President to protect Americans on the seas.
Then the winds may howl and the seas roll, but there can be no wreck.
As an instance of such a discovery in the seas south of New Zealand may be mentioned Scott Island, first observed by the 'Morning', one of the relief ships of the British Expedition of 1902.
Most unexpectedly there came a lull in the wind, so that it was almost calm, though the ship still laboured in the seas.
Further, the pipe was to be protected from the violence of the seas by planks fixed round it.
Goethe is especially an epic; no doubt he paints the passions with admirable truth, but he commands them; like the god of the seas in Virgil, he raises above the angry waves his calm and sublime forehead.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "the seas" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
