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Sentences starting with sea

Sea and shore were in a kind of truce, and the ocean south wind brought cool refreshment but no incentive. [4]
Sea full of flying-fish. [5]
Sea and air and land here are all kin, I suspect, and have certain immaterial qualities in common. [4]

Sentences ending with sea

Fancy yourself, that you have broken it, and that the pieces are lying at the bottom of the sea. [10]
More than fifty years of his sixty-five were spent at sea. [5]
Since two thousand years all these coasts have changed more or less, risen and sunk, and the temples and palaces of two civilizations have tumbled into the sea. [4]
I've done fine work in my time, but upon that day--not a cloud above, no dust beneath, a flowing tide, and a calm sea. [11]
As the day wore on, the air became more amiable still, and a delicate haze settled over the water and over the land, making softer to the eye house and hill and rock and sea. [11]
The calculating mind wonders how many million feet of lumber there are in this unpicturesque barricade, and what gigantic forests have fallen to make this timber front to the sea. [4]
Paulus soothed him with gentle words, and told him of the errand on which he had sent the lad to the farther coast of the sea. [10]
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]
I suppose he wishes I had left him in the dingey on No Man's Sea. [11]
I do not wish to hurry you, but you can't get aboard a ship at sea. [9]

Short sentences using sea

He looked out to sea. [11]
Dear son, breast the sea. [11]
He was at sea. [9]
Entering the open sea. [5]
Why not the sea, indeed? [9]
Ho for the sea! [9]
How still the sea is! [4]
The Dead Sea is small. [5]
Now the sea is calm. [10]
Toward the sea! [9]

Sentences containing sea two or more times

And a sea voyage on the Atlantic is of no use--voyage too short, sea too rough. [5]
Religion, as yet unidentified, is the force behind these portentous stirrings of politics in our country, from sea to sea. [9]
From that place there is no escape--the desert is as the sea, and upon that sea there is no ghiassa to sail to a farther shore. [11]
The bottom of the sea on which they trod was firm, moist sand, on which even the herds could walk as if it were a smooth road, sloping gently toward the sea. [10]
The wind from the sea drove the clouds before it across the sky, and the plain covered with tents resembled a sea tossed into high white waves. [10]
The triumph of the conqueror's fame is sounding from hill to hill, from sea to sea, and from land to land, and calling millions to his standard at a blast. [7]
When the sea shone with the hue of the sky and lay motionless, as it did to-day, she thought Glaucus, the god of the blue sea, was sunning himself in pleasant slumber. [10]
Dionysus is equally powerful on sea and on land; in the pirates' ship he assumed the form of a lion, and the pirates, filled with terror, flung themselves into the sea, and in the form of dolphins followed their lost bark. [10]
Heavy sea all night, and from 4 A.M. very wet, the sea breaking over us in frequent sluices, and soaking everything aft, particularly. [5]
It is charmingly like sitting snuggled up on a ship's deck with the stretching sea all around --but very much more satisfactory, for at sea a rain-storm is depressing, while here of course the effect engendered is just a deep sense of comfort and contentment. [5]

More example sentences with the word sea in them

When I read your letter first, a flood of fire seemed to run through my veins; then I became as though I had been dipped in ether, and all the winds of an arctic sea were blowing over me. [11]
Well, what do you say, friends, to being our own Victualling Board out in the open sea, if we can get there? [11]
I'm thinking that you may be of those who went out to the Arctic Sea with Sir John Franklin--with Sir John Franklin, you understand. [11]
It is probable you left some obscure comrade at a tavern, or in the farms, with right mother-wit, and equality to life, when you crossed sea and land to play bo-peep with celebrated scribes. [6]
And then--and then you can hear a wild laugh come out of the land, come up from the sea, come down from the sky--all waiting, waiting for something! [11]
For her sake you are bold enough to try now and then to quell the stormy sea of my passions. [10]
Nearly a hundred years ago the crew of the British ship Bounty mutinied, set the captain and his officers adrift upon the open sea, took possession of the ship, and sailed southward. [5]
Presently, however, the yacht slid out from the infolding land into an open sea that stretched before them to a silver-lined horizon. [9]
I hope to write from the Sea of Tiberius, Damascus, Jerusalem, Joppa, and possibly other points in the Holy Land. [5]
He said he would sail his balloon around the globe just to show what he could do, and then he would sink it in the sea, and sink us all along with it, too. [5]
Then her spirit would rise from her body's ashes, a thousandfold reinforced, and sweep the English domination into the sea, and Cauchon along with it. [5]
Such a catastrophe would be death, in all probability, for we would be swept to sea in the "Sink" or overturned and drowned. [5]
To Jim the world became a sea of maddening forces which buffeted him; a whirlpool of fire in which his brain was tortured, his mind was shrivelled up; a vast army rending itself, each man against the other. [11]
There was a wondering and eloquent silence for a moment, then a great wave of laughter began to sweep along that human sea, but a warning bugle-blast cut its career short. [5]
He wandered on without thinking; the street in which he presently found himself must no doubt lead to the sea, and if he could once find himself on the shore he could not fail to make his way to Lochias. [10]
These gallant gentlemen, with one hundred and fifty souls, had been wrecked on the Bermudas in the Sea Venture in the preceding July. [4]
For myself, I wish the earth close about me, and level green grass above me, and no one knowing of the place; or else, fire or the sea. [11]
Ask of the winds that far away with fragments strewed the sea. [5]
The sea, the winds of heaven, had aided others since the dawn of history. [9]
There was not wind enough for sails, but there were chopping waves, and swell enough to toss us about, and to produce bright flashes of light far out at sea. [4]
I fancy she will have tried to reach the sea, and to get to Egypt or possibly to Alexandria; and there--you know what the Greek city is--she will fall into utter ruin. [10]
Sleep with Herodotus, whose name and praise Have reached the isles of earth's remotest sea. [6]
It was he, who led the way for the Spaniards with the standard on his head, when they waded through the sea that stormy night, to surprise Zierikzee. [10]
The stones on which they had stepped were covered, and a deep stream of water, rising with every pulsation of the sea, now, where there was only a rivulet before. [4]
A morning came when I went on deck to survey spaces of a blue and white sea swept by the white March sunlight; to discern at length against the horizon toward which we sped a cloud of the filmiest and most delicate texture and design. [9]
Once or twice when a wild storm was on I could not land at Cap Martin, and was carried out to sea and over to France. [11]
And so, wondering what I should say next, I remarked in desperation: "Do you like the sea? [11]
I remember with what feeling I one day unexpectedly read on a white slab, in the little inclosure of Bonchurch, where the sea whispered as gently as the rustle of the ivy-leaves, the name of John Sterling. [4]
During the weeks we've been at sea, bursting along, have I proved myself? [11]
By nightfall we were far out at sea, with no land in sight. [5]
Ships of war were continually moving to and fro, and from the Serpent Island they witnessed constantly, often by starlight, the drilling of the oarsmen and of whole squadrons upon the open sea. [10]
From Livorno I went by sea to Genoa, where I obtained chased gold and silverwork for shoulder-belts and sheaths. [10]
Then the sun went behind Posilipo in a perfect blaze of scarlet, and all the sea was violet. [4]
But the first week of August in Munich it was delicious weather,--clear, sparkling, bracing air, with no chill in it and no languor in it, just as you would say it ought to be on a high, gravelly plain, seventeen hundred feet above the sea. [4]
Well, one day we were lying in the open sea, about two hundred and fifty miles from Port Darwin. [11]
At the Hermitage we were about fifteen or eighteen hundred feet above the sea, and thus far a portion of the ascent had been pretty abrupt. [5]
No sooner have we set forward over the brow of a hill than it grows lighter on the sea horizon in the southwest, the ruins on the peak become visible, Capri is in full sunlight. [4]
To the Admiralty we owed the fact, the journal urged, that the Araminta was now at the bottom of the sea, and its young commander confined in a French fortress, his brave and distinguished services lost to the country. [11]
Mr. Tooting, as we have seen, had a remarkable business head, and combined with it--as Austen Vane remarked--the rare instinct of the Norway rat which goes down to the sea in ships--when they are safe. [9]
Betimes, next morning, we had reached an altitude of five thousand feet above the level of the sea. [5]
By that time we had passed into the fresher air of the Mediterranean, and the sea was delightfully smooth. [11]
Something interfered, and we did not visit the Red Sea and walk upon the sands of Arabia. [5]
Oh dear, if we are to go to sea again, Mandeville, I move we have in the nuts and apples, and talk about our friends. [4]
Senator Dilworthy says, we are bound to extend our religion over the isles of the sea. [5]
At the Canopic Way they turned eastward and rushed through this main artery of traffic till, in the Brucheium, they hastened in a northerly direction toward the sea. [10]
The great hills waved into each other like a vast violet sea, and, in turn, the tiny earth-waves on each separate hill swelled into the larger harmony. [11]
At all the watery margins they have been present; not only on the deep sea, the broad bay, and the rapid river, but also up the narrow, muddy bayou, and wherever the ground was a little damp, they have been and made their tracks. [7]
To-day its sacred waters are still sweet, but soon it will taste as salt as the north sea with all the tears that have been shed on its banks. [10]
The Father of Waters again goes unvexed to the sea. [7]
Or, in the watches, to hear the sea lashing along her strakes in never ending music! [9]
He stood and watched the sea breaking over her, and the whole scene flashed back on him. [11]
The little Chevalier watched the boat glide out into the gloom of night, and waited till he knew that they must all be aboard Ranulph's schooner and making for the sea. [11]
The sea was washing over the deck. [11]
That young husband was waylaid and impressed, and sent to sea. [5]
Just high enough was the little chair that of a certain day in the year its owner might look out and see mystic fires burning round the Paternosters, and lighting up the sea with awful radiance. [11]
My greatest apprehension was that we might be derailed and the despatches captured; for as fast as our army had advanced, the track of it had closed again, like the wake of a ship at sea. [9]
While this conversation was taking place, Melissa and her companion had reached the shore of the lake, the large inland sea which washed the southern side of the city and afforded anchorage for the Nile-boats. [10]
A heavy sea was running, the gale was blowing hard from the north-east, and under the close-hauled sail the Belle Suzanne was lying over dangerously. [11]
The north wind was now blowing so violently from the sea that it was difficult to keep the torches and lamps lighted. [10]
The petroleum story was not told to me; he told it to Joe Twichell, who ran across him by accident on a sea voyage where I think the two were the only passengers. [5]
Only it still was not the sea at all; but the little chopping waves looked like flecked clouds; and it was exactly as if one of the violet, cloud-beautified skies that we see at home over some sunsets had fallen to the ground. [4]
The South Sea was not discovered, no gold had turned up, there were no valuable products from the new land, and the promoters received no profits on their ventures. [4]
After the offering was made to the sea, we partook of the cocoanut and returned home, when my mother gave me some food; but Tookaram did not partake of any food that night. [5]
The little thing was like a chip on the sea. [4]
Budget after budget was hurried by the winds across the sea. [9]
But the sea was his ally, and she turned her face appealingly toward the receding land. [9]
Presently the cloud-rack was flooded with fiery splendors, and these were copied on the surface of the sea, and it made one drunk with delight to look upon it. [5]
The sea outside was evidently running high. [10]
And the sea was cold,--cold and green under the gray light. [9]
To Guida, who was both of the sea and of the land, fearless as to either, it was neither terrible nor desolate to be alone with the storm. [11]
The strongest pressure was between the peninsula of the Choma and the Sebasteum; for this afforded a view of the sea, and the first tidings must reach the residence of the Regent, which was connected with the palace. [10]
Even while Gorgias was beckoning to him from the two-wheeled chariot, the thought entered his mind that yonder handsome youth, who had so deeply wronged Barine and Dion, would be the very person to help carry his friend through the low-roofed passage to the sea. [10]
The little tablet was accompanied by a second, which, in the Regent's name, authorized the bearer to have the harbour chains raised anywhere, to go out into the open sea and return without interference. [10]
He rose, and walked to the far end of the tiled pavement of the pergola, and stood for a moment looking out over the sea. [9]
After a long voyage through the canal which had been dug a short time before, connecting the Mediterranean with the Red Sea, the three men reached Clysma. [10]
A twelve months' voyage at sea would make of an ordinary man a very miracle of meanness. [5]
The "city" of Virginia roosted royally midway up the steep side of Mount Davidson, seven thousand two hundred feet above the level of the sea, and in the clear Nevada atmosphere was visible from a distance of fifty miles! [5]
You send that vessel to sea, and what's the result? [5]
It was the very weather that makes our home summers the perfection of climatic luxury; I mean, when you are out in the wood or by the sea. [5]
The sea is very dark and blue here. [5]
Out upon the vast sea of sand, where the descending sun was spreading a note of incandescent colour, there floated the grateful words: "He remembering His mercy hath holpen His servant Israel; as He promised to our forefathers, Abraham, and his seed for ever. [11]
Within the pleasant Vale of Loe Beside the Sea of Var, The Daughter of our ancient foe Dwells where her people are. [11]
Every admonition was vain, every threat derided, and the rebellious people had forced their leaders to go with them till, after a short march, they reached the Red Sea, whose deep green waves had forced them to pause in their southward flight. [10]
If in the vague dusk of her brain the thought glimmered that she was ballast for Jean on sea and anchor on land, she still was content. [11]
I avoid it, usually, but in this case it was absolutely necessary, else every reader would be applying the atmosphere of his own or sea experiences, and that shirt wouldn't fit, you know. [5]
You have seen us go to sea, a cloud of sail--and the flag at the peak; and you see us now, chartless, adrift--derelicts; battered, water-logged, our sails a ruck of rags, our pride gone. [5]
Unfortunately, I insisted upon my plan, and the next morning sailed in a pouring rain through a dense mist to the mouth of the Weser and out to sea. [10]
She tore it up, and went to the window and looked out upon the sea. [4]
And being an unemotional and very tolerable sailor, he was able to be as cynical at sea as on land, and as much of an oracle, in his wholly unobtrusive way. [4]
The fog lay unbroken like a sea down below, but higher up at the village of Schlappanitz where Napoleon stood with his marshals around him, it was quite light. [2]
Sometimes, with only two years' training at Gosport, a youngster became a midshipman on first going to sea, and he could begin as early as eleven years of age. [11]
This train-express goes twenty and one-half miles an hour, schedule time; but it is fast enough, the outlook upon sea and land is so interesting, and the cars so comfortable. [5]
Next thing he turns up on that little expedition we took to get Porter to sea again. [9]
The tide was turning very fast now, very fast indeed--but in the wrong direction; it was leaving poor Tom Canty stranded on the throne, and sweeping the other out to sea. [5]
On the short trip, the crests of the tossing waves sometimes shone with a flickering light, while elsewhere long shadows spread like dark sails over the sea. [10]
Captain Ascott's fingers trembled, and he paused for an instant and looked down upon the dead, then out sorrowfully to the waiting sea, before he spoke the words, "We therefore commit their bodies to the deep. [11]
There warn't no trees, nor hills, nor rocks, nor towns, and Tom and Jim had took it for the sea. [5]
Sometimes he climbed tree, and again he sent me to the upper branches, whence I surveyed a sea of tree-tops waving in the wind, and looked onward to where a green velvet hollow lay nestling on the western side of a saddle-backed ridge. [9]
Ahead lay a treacherous sea, around them roaring winds, and the perilous coast of Jersey beyond all. [11]
Last year I traveled twenty thousand miles, almost entirely by rail; the year before, I traveled over twenty-five thousand miles, half by sea and half by rail; and the year before that I traveled in the neighborhood of ten thousand miles, exclusively by rail. [5]

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