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Sentences starting with ocean

Ocean claims great multitudes, but does not invite the solitary who would fain be rid of himself. [6]
Ocean was there, all ready, asking no questions, answering none. [6]

Sentences ending with ocean

To reach Glencoe you spent two dirty hours on that railroad which (it was fondly hoped) would one day stretch to the Pacific Ocean. [9]
Then, from the wharves, I saw the bay dotted with islands, their white sand sparkling in the evening light, and fringed with strange trees, and beyond, of a deepening blue, the ocean. [9]
It goes down to the bottom of the ocean. [5]
By law, one thousand dollars of this was exempt from income tax--the only relief I could see, and it was only a drop in the ocean. [5]
He often said there was something striking about the ocean. [5]
She was sitting there one day when a wave came up and washed her away into the ocean. [4]
The sky remains the same, and the ocean. [6]
She glanced at the profile of the Viking, and allowed her mind to dwell for an instant upon the sensations of that other woman who had been snatched up and carried across the ocean. [9]
They'll live like the princes of the earth; they'll be courted and worshiped; their names will be known from ocean to ocean! [5]
And I knew that we were near the ocean. [9]

Short sentences using ocean

It's the ocean! [5]

Sentences containing ocean two or more times

On this ocean too the great constellations circle in their ships, and there is the kingdom of the blissful gods, who sit enthroned above this heavenly ocean under a canopy of stars. [10]
It is not Leviathan that leads the ocean from continent to continent, but the ocean which bears his mighty bulk as it wafts its own bubbles. [6]
If I put a weathercock on my house, Sir, I want it to tell which way the wind blows up aloft,--off from the prairies to the ocean, or off from the ocean to the prairies, or any way it wants to blow! [6]

More example sentences with the word ocean in them

I recommend to your favorable consideration the subject of an international telegraph across the Atlantic Ocean, and also of a telegraph between this capital and the national forts along the Atlantic seaboard and the Gulf of Mexico. [7]
When they release you from prison, innocent and acquitted, cross the ocean and set up your tent under the Stars and Stripes. [11]
But if you would be happy in Berkshire, you must carry mountains in your brain; and if you would enjoy Nahant, you must have an ocean in your soul. [6]
Then to bed, with drowsy brains harassed with a mad panorama that mixes up pictures of France, of Italy, of the ship, of the ocean, of home, in grotesque and bewildering disorder. [5]
I rode down with a gentleman to the Ocean House, the other day, to see the sea horses, and also to listen to the roar of the surf, and watch the ships drifting about, here, and there, and far away at sea. [5]
The simple figures whose inmost being I have endeavored to reveal to the reader fill the canvas of a picture where, in the dark background, rolls the flowing ocean of the world's history. [10]
We had the whole Pacific Ocean in front of us, with nothing to do but do nothing and be comfortable. [5]
So the wave which was to have wafted them on to the shore of Elysium has just failed of landing them, and back they have been drawn into the desolate ocean to meet no more on earth. [6]
It is individual, which the ocean, with all its gulfs and inlets and multitudinous shores, hardly seems to be. [6]
Before sunset they were out in the open, and could feel the long ocean swell. [4]
The day they were living in stretched behind them half way round the globe, across the Pacific Ocean and America and Europe; the day I was living in stretched in front of me around the other half to meet it. [5]
Sea and shore were in a kind of truce, and the ocean south wind brought cool refreshment but no incentive. [4]
From Switzerland I went to a foggy place called London, and thence I crossed the ocean to the solemn forests of the north of Canada, where I was many years, learning the characters of these gentlemen who are looking in upon us. [9]
So the ship went on out into the ocean with us. [11]
And so, as we left league after, league of the blue ocean behind us, I would set my face to the forecastle. [9]
Its mile-breadth of water seemed an ocean to them, in the shadowy twilight, and the vague riband of trees on the further shore, the verge of a continent which surely none but they had ever seen before. [5]
He has to watch the huge dikes which keep the ocean from overwhelming him, and the river-banks, which may break, and let the floods of the Rhine swallow him up. [4]
But King, who was immensely interested in it all as one phase of American summer life, was glad that Irene was not at Ocean Grove. [4]
And although it was before the days of swimming-pools and gymnasiums and a la carte cafes on ocean liners, the Atlantic was imposing enough. [9]
Everywhere was the warm ocean undulating lazily to the vague horizon. [11]
Now, the sloop-of- war the Wasp, Captain Blakely, after gloriously capturing the Reindeer and the Avon, had disappeared from the face of the ocean, and was supposed to be lost. [6]
During the long voyage, the strange mystery of the ocean was wrought into her consciousness so deeply, that it seemed to have become a part of her being. [6]
This phenomenon made us a little suspicious of the foundations of this island which is already invaded by the jealous ocean, and is anchored to the continent only by the cable. [4]
A dromedary flashing up the sands,--spray of the dry ocean sailed by the "ship of the desert. [6]
You may spade up the ocean as much as you like, and harrow it afterwards, if you can,--but the moon will still lead the tides, and the winds will form their surface. [6]
The love which unites two hearts is like the ocean of Homer which encircles both halves of the earth. [10]
We must be tolerant, for the thought which stammers on a single tongue today may organize itself in the growing consciousness of the time, and come back to us like the voice of the multitudinous waves of the ocean on the morrow. [3]
But I wished to see the harbour of the great commercial city, and the ships which ploughed the ocean to those distant lands for which I had often longed. [10]
Knowledge--it excites prejudices to call it science--is advancing as irresistibly, as majestically, as remorselessly as the ocean moves in upon the shore. [6]
I ran tunnels till I tapped the Arctic Ocean, and I sunk shafts till I broke through the roof of perdition; but those extensions turned up missing every time. [5]
It was as though at a sign from the Omnipotent Ruler the storm-lashed ocean had turned to the calm of a land-locked lake. [10]
The stone from this David's sling falls into the ocean and is lost beneath the surface. [11]
He takes a thing in as the ocean mouths a river. [11]
Still another of these young ladies I saw for the first time in an open boat, tossing on the ocean ground-swell, a mile or two from shore, off a lonely island. [6]
The effect of these ribbons of alternate sand and water, of the lights and the ocean (or Great Bay) beyond, was exquisite. [4]
They still preserved their ample buckskin seat intact; and so his short pea jacket and his long, thin legs assisted to make him a picturesque object whenever he stood on the forecastle looking abroad upon the ocean over the bows. [5]
Its murmur recalled the whisper of the ocean waves. [6]
We dam out the ocean, we make roses bloom in winter and water freeze in summer. [6]
The beach which the ocean of knowledge--you may call it science if you like--is flowing over, is theological humanity. [6]
You would divest the impressive drop of water on the mountain summit, which might go to the Atlantic or to the Pacific, of all moral character by saying that it makes no difference which ocean it falls into. [4]
We stood on the edge of the ocean of space, and looked out over the dimness, but couldn't make out anything. [5]
When we compare the differences in stature between the Polynesian chiefs and the lower orders within the same islands, or between the inhabitants of the fertile volcanic and low barren coral islands of the same ocean (18. [1]
An elephant on the desert, fronting the Atlantic Ocean, had, after all, a picturesque aspect, and all the more so because he was a deserted ruin. [4]
The conductor said that one of those streams which we were looking at, was just starting on a journey westward to the Gulf of California and the Pacific Ocean, through hundreds and even thousands of miles of desert solitudes. [5]
Mr. Gladstone, a strong man for his years, is reported as saying that he is too old to travel, at least to cross the ocean, and he is younger than I am,--just four months, to a day, younger. [6]
A telegraph line stretches straight up north through that 2,000 miles of wilderness and desert from Adelaide to Port Darwin on the edge of the upper ocean. [5]
About midnight the storm quit and the moon come out and lit up the ocean, and we begun to feel comfortable and drowsy; so we stretched out on the lockers and went to sleep, and never woke up again till sun-up. [5]
Then we all stood petrified but happy, for none of us had ever seen an ocean, or ever expected to. [5]
If an ocean steamer had hit it, or a freight tram, it couldn't have been more thoroughly demolished. [9]
How he had speculated and dreamed about it is plain enough from the paper the reader may remember on Ocean, River, and Lake. [6]
Shall we expect some transatlantic military giant to step the ocean and crush us at a blow? [7]
On the south side, by a long slope, it comes nearly to the water, and the longing that the visitor to Bar Harbor has to see the ocean is moderately gratified. [4]
Does the ocean share your grief? [6]
I have never seen any, on either side of the ocean, that equaled them. [5]
But we couldn't see nothing but ocean. [5]
I did not see her again before the hour that afternoon when we should give the bodies of the two men to the ocean. [11]
It was in search of something different from this that King and Forbes took the train and traveled six miles to Asbury Park and Ocean Grove. [4]
Why, I should say I should like to see myself rolling in just such another ocean of affluence. [5]
On what beach rolled by the waves of what ocean? [6]
A mist is rising from the water, and the shore is growing grey and heavy as the light in the west recedes and night creeps in from the ocean. [11]
One learns to respect this ocean, but not to love it; and he leaves it with mingled feelings about Columbus. [4]
And yet this region has no seacoast--touches no ocean anywhere. [7]
Nothing is so rare, on either side of the ocean, as a perfect bed; nothing is so difficult to make. [5]
You will say random rocks in the ocean are not what is wanted; let them strike for Acapulco and the solid continent. [5]
Then came the rain, in great billows, as though the ocean itself were upon us. [9]
Starting with the Railway Systems, Steamer Lines, Standard Oil, Ocean Cables, Diluted Telegraph, and all the rest, and winding up with Klondike, De Beers, Tammany Graft, and Shady Privileges in the Post-office Department. [5]
Look, I shall quaff a cup To Fate, while the wild ocean swallows up The shipwrecked youth, the man who lives in him. [11]
To the dark prophecies of Carlyle, which came wailing to him across the ocean, he answered with ever hopeful and cheerful anticipations. [6]
The perfect personal poise of Mavick, which gave him an air of patronizing the ocean, and his lightly held skeptical view of life, made his company as full of flavor on ship as it was on shore. [4]
The driving a pirate from the track of commerce on the broad ocean, and the removing of a snag from its more narrow path in the Mississippi River, cannot, I think, be distinguished in principle. [7]
No such ocean picnic had ever been planned before, and it created a good deal of interest East and West. [5]
Even that wonderful passage of Milton's, beginning "So sinks the day-star in the ocean bed," which he always used to beg her to repeat, did not seem to move him now. [9]
It stands, indeed, overlooking a gate of the ocean, in a beautiful morning light; and we can hear now the repetition of that profane phrase, used for the misdirection of wayward mortals,---"Go to Halifax! [4]
It was gazing out over the ocean of Time--over lines of century-waves which, further and further receding, closed nearer and nearer together, and blended at last into one unbroken tide, away toward the horizon of remote antiquity. [5]
Breakfast was set out in the tiled and sheltered loggia, where they were fanned by the cool airs of a softly breathing ocean. [9]
We dug ourselves out and looked down, and where the caravan was before there wasn't anything but just the sand ocean now, and all still and quiet. [5]
We had seen our planet furnished by the art of man with a complete nervous system: a spinal cord beneath the ocean, secondary centres,--ganglions,--in all the chief places where men are gathered together, and ramifications extending throughout civilization. [6]
From what country other than America could so many thousands of pilgrims --even before our nation had entered the war--have hurried across a wide ocean to take their part? [9]
A fish more or less in the ocean does not seem to amount to much. [6]
Would not the one suffer because he could not see the ocean, and the other by reason of the revengeful state of his mind? [4]
The same ocean on which she had looked that morning, and which she heard now, in the intervals of talk and laughter, crashing against the cliffs,--although the wind had gone down. [9]
We were soon on the prairies, and in the misty rain that fell and fell they seemed to melt afar into a gray and cheerless ocean. [9]
It stands just on the edge of the chalk hills whose drives gently slope down to the German Ocean, and the scenery around offers an unvarying expanse of flats. [4]
I was tired of the sullen indifference of the ocean and the babbling egotism of the river, always hurrying along on its own private business. [6]
A good deal of the State below Jacksonville is already ten to fifteen feet above the ocean. [4]
The Egyptian myth of the gods of the great lights who sail the celestial ocean in golden barks, and of the sun-god who each morning conquers the demons of darkness, had suggested the subject of this performance. [10]
The mighty roar of London was round them, like the sound of an unseen ocean, yet every footfall on the pavement below might be heard distinctly, in that unfrequented street. [14]
After an hour of it, I was holding my breath against the lurches, like a sea-sick man against that bottomless fall of the ship's bows on the ocean. [9]
Over the vast ocean which girdles the vault of heaven, the sun moves in a boat or car drawn by the planets and fixed stars. [10]
Now that the ocean was to be between them, was it love that she felt for Clarence at last? [9]
It is the ocean that is the miracle, my infant apostle! [6]
I think the ocean telegraph-wire ought to be laid and will be laid, but I don't know that you have any right to ask me to go and lay it. [6]
In the Indian Ocean he was taken ill: and this was the end. [11]
I am not noisy, like the ocean, except occasionally when I am rudely interrupted, or when I stumble and get a fall. [6]
There is a noble and beautiful view of ocean and islands and castellated peaks from the governor's high-placed house, and its immediate surroundings lie drowsing in that dreamy repose and serenity which are the charm of life in the Pacific Islands. [5]
Perhaps there is no place on the coast that would more astonish the foreigner than Ocean Grove, and if he should describe it faithfully he would be unpopular with its inhabitants. [4]
He thinks that new sources of wealth have revealed themselves not far from the head of the sacred river which can hardly flow in from the ocean, as the ancients supposed. [10]
The beautiful palace nestles among the grand old groves of the park, the park sits in the lap of the picturesque crags and hills, and both look out upon the breezy ocean. [5]
She had pretty nearly convinced herself that he was the author of the paper on Ocean, Lake, and River, which had been read at one of the meetings of the Pansophian Society. [6]
He has made my life a sorrow to me at many a banquet on both sides of the ocean, and now he has got it. [5]

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