Use seas in a sentence
Sentences ending with seas
- What was gold will still be a rusted gold, but near to the earth-the stubble of the corn now lying in vast garners by the railway lines, awaiting transport east and west and south and across the seas. [11]
- In short, those who had apparently done their utmost to oppose democracy at home were most insistent that we should embark upon a war for democracy across the seas. [9]
- And yet they were in the bustling world, close to the continent, commanding the most important of the navigable seas. [4]
- One more point--all the world knows it, and that is why it is dangerous to omit it--our guest is a distinguished citizen of the Great Republic beyond the seas. [5]
- By the time the seventeenth degree of dilution should be reached, the alcohol required would equal in quantity the waters of ten thousand Adriatic seas. [3]
- That is what the nations practise in the islands of the South Seas. [11]
- As they did so, Mrs. Falchion said suddenly, looking at Boldrick keenly: "Were you ever in the South Seas? [11]
- The appeal was so charmingly made that every one was moved by it, especially the maiden ladies present, who might be supposed to enter into the feelings of their dusky sisters beyond the seas. [4]
- Customs in tropic seas. [5]
- Suffice it to say that we sailed for a fortnight or so in the West India seas. [9]
Short sentences using seas
- On the seas? [9]
More example sentences with the word seas in them
- Here is the world of the press and of letters; here are institutions, an army, a navy, commerce, glimpses of great ships going to and fro on distant seas, of India, of Australia. [4]
- And that night, with the stars jumping and the air biting cold (for we were up in the 40's), and the John wish-washing through the seas at three leagues the hour, MacMuir told me the story of Mungo Maxwell. [9]
- It was she who brought imagination to bear on my pastimes, and many a time has she borne my fancy far enough from the Pegnitz, over seas and rivers to groves of palm and golden fairy lands. [10]
- The steps are well worn, and must have been trodden for ages, by nobles and robbers, peasants and sailors, priests of more than one religion, and traders of many seas, who have gone, and left no record. [4]
- The only adventures we have is in drifting into rough seas now and then. [5]
- In their eyes was the livid lightning that searched in spasms of anger for its prey, while there swept over the brown, aching veld the flood which filled the spruits, which made the rivers seas, and ploughed fresh channels through the soil. [11]
- No pilot ever ventured to a ship on such rough seas as Gaspard ventured for small profit or glory. [11]
- As Smith had traveled all over Europe and sojourned in Morocco, besides sailing the high seas, since he visited Prince Sigismund in December, 1603, it was probably in the year 1605 that he reached England. [4]
- I have been told that once in the South Seas he did his country a great service. [11]
- There was, needless to say, great excitement in Leith over Mr. Crewe's proposed venture into the unknown seas of politics. [9]
- My uncle talked to me over seas and lands. [11]
- I was ordered to go to the South Seas, at least to take a long sea-voyage; and though I could not well afford it I started for Australia. [11]
- There he was to give Mattingley, Alixandre, and Carterette his craft to fare across the seas to the great fishing-ground of Gaspe in Canada. [11]
- If Germany continues to destroy shipping on the seas, if we are not able to supply our new armies and the Allied nations with food and other things, the increasing social ferment will paralyze the military operations of the Entente. [9]
- It is time to be old, To take in sail:-- The god of bounds, Who sets to seas a shore, Came to me in his fatal rounds, And said: "No more! [6]
- And many a time they came back to me when the old man was laid away in the spot reserved for those who sailed the seas for Mr. Carvel. [9]
- Was it that there had passed to him in his sleep the subconscious knowledge of the kiss which Kitty had given him; and, after all, had he said "My darling" to her and not to the wife far away across the seas, as he thought? [11]
- Then he told them what the Sultan of Egypt was at; also what the King of the Remote Seas was about. [5]
- That will take them over seas wherever the abbess may command. [10]
- And sometimes, when the yacht glided over smoother seas, it was his pleasure to read to her, even poetry and the great epics. [9]
- We shall sweep the seas together, and so let George beware! [9]
- The journey across the seas had not changed that. [9]
- The Terror of the Seas had brought a side of bacon, and had about worn himself out with getting it there. [5]
- You may range the seas from the Yugon Strait to the Erebus volcano, and you will find no such landing-place for imps or men as that field of rocks on the southeast corner of Jersey called, with a malicious irony, the Bane des Violets. [11]
- The Victoire sailed the seas battle-hungry, and presently appeased her appetite among Dutch and Danish privateers. [11]
- In other ships the passengers are always ciphering about when they are going to arrive; out in these seas it is rare, very rare, to hear that subject broached. [5]
- Everybody who saw the march, saw that the Champion of the Teetotalers was half seas over, and noted also that his brother, who made no hypocritical pretensions to extra temperance virtues, was dignified and sober. [5]
- I already know the Admiral commanding in the China Seas and have promised to look in on him out there. [5]
- We left on the 6th and stopped over at Romorantin; then on the 9th Joan entered Orleans in state, under triumphal arches, with the welcoming cannon thundering and seas of welcoming flags fluttering in the breeze. [5]
- Tidings had come that the Sultan of Egypt had fallen upon the Island of Cyprus, and that the Mussulmans had beaten King Janus, who ruled over it, and had carried him beyond seas in triumph to Old Cairo, a prisoner and loaded with chains. [10]
- Another cry like that had rung out in another mob across the seas more than a century before. [9]
- Then, perhaps the temporary expatriation, the tedious traversing of seas and continents, the pilgrimage to Bayreuth stands explained. [5]
- Bias could not tell what seas the Hydra had sailed, nor at what--usually desolate-shores she had touched. [10]
- The great seas swept her in and crushed her to splinters and rubbish upon the rock tushes at the base of the precipice. [5]
- Two infolding wings, stretching towards the water, enclose a court, and through the slender white pillars of the peristyle one beholds in fancy the summer seas of Greece. [9]
- It swarmed with soldiers, adventurers, sailors who were familiar with all seas and every port, men with projects, men with marvelous tales. [4]
- That was not so difficult, since your Terror of the Seas was locked up safe enough in the Texel. [9]
- Imagine a little sloop in the wash of the seas and the buccaneers piling down on him, and no chance of escape, and then a great British battleship appearing, and the situation saved--that was how we were placed here till the hounds arrived. [11]
- Then the swift sissing ripple of water, the thud of the Araminta as she struck, and the cold chill of the seas as she went down. [11]
- In him, it shows itself in thinking his way straightforward, in doing battle for "free trade and no right of search" on the high seas of religious controversy, and especially in fighting the battles of his crooked old city. [6]
- I warrant no ship ever swam the seas that looks better going than she does. [11]
- I have already seen the Empire of King Solomon diminish to the size of the State of Pennsylvania; I suppose I can bear the reduction of the seas and the river. [5]
- Shipped hardly any seas last night, and to-day the sea has gone down somewhat, although it is still too high for comfort, as we have an occasional reminder that water is wet. [5]
- The navy was scattered in distant seas, leaving but a very small part of it within the immediate reach of the government. [7]
- If he hadn't robbed others on the high seas, they would probably have robbed him--and sometimes they did. [11]
- Had she ever really tried to find a region in his big nature where the fine allusiveness and subjectivity of the human mind could have free life and untrammelled exercise, could gambol in green fields of imagination and adventure upon strange seas of discovery? [11]
- He was a raving, deafening, devastating typhoon, laying waste the cowering seas but with an unvexed refuge in the centre where all comers were safe and at rest. [5]
- In that dear presence I swam in seas of bliss. [5]
- Here was a poor creature whom hard fortune had exiled from his natural home beyond the seas, and whose troubles ought to have touched these idle strangers that thronged about him; but did it? [5]
- Nor did Logan's pond, that wild March day, greatly resemble the South Seas. [9]
- It has also pleased our Heavenly Father to favor as well our citizens in their homes as our soldiers in their camps, and our sailors on the rivers and seas, with unusual health. [7]
- If morally consumptive people were given a few years in the South Seas, where they could not get away from nature, there would be more strength and less scandal in society. [11]
- So I baled out the seas we shipped, and Johnny pulled heavily through the billows till we had reached a point three or four miles beyond the camp. [5]
- The last eight or ten miles of Sir Colin Campbell's march was through seas of, blood. [5]
- Once in the open, the Maria showed but small consideration for her passengers, for she went through the seas rather than over them. [9]
- There is only one free, independent, unsubsidized American ship sailing the foreign seas, and Duluth owns it. [5]
- The heroic devotion of this woman, and Pretty Pierre's act of friendship to her, together with the swift panorama of his past across the seas, awoke the whole man in Shon, as the staunch life that he had lately led rendered it possible. [11]
- In various parts of the northern seas a remarkable variety of the common Guillemot (Uria troile) is found; and in Feroe, one out of every five birds, according to Graba's estimation, presents this variation. [1]
- I always thought of it as a fairy sort of ship, sailing on summer seas, freighted with youth and beauty, and carrying pleasure and good-fortune wherever it went. [4]
- What a cry of eager voices, what a group of cheeks in flame, When the wondrous boa was opened that had come from over seas, With its smell of mastic-varnish and its flash of ivory keys! [6]
- Ralph would have none of the Petrel, or of the South Seas either; but he wanted,--so he said,--"to be in at the death. [9]
- The deck was never quiet for a moment, and seldom nearer level than a ladder, and noble were the seas which leapt aboard and went flooding aft. [5]
- The head and neck, terrible and beautiful, are stretched out towards the west, as it were to scan the wild waste and jungle of the Atlantic seas. [11]
- And I remember my sensations when in the province of Quebec in the autumn of 1914, looking out of the car-window at the troops gathering on the platforms who were to go across the seas to fight for the empire and liberty. [9]
- Other songs reached my ears each night, above the hissing and pounding of the Channel seas, but the unseen group returned always to this. [9]
- I've brought a mutinous ship out of mutiny, sailed her down the seas for many weeks, disciplined her, drilled her, trained her, fought her; helped to give the admiral of the West Indian squadron his victory. [11]
- I have thought much of that scene since, as I am steaming northward over green seas and under cloudless skies, and it has seemed very unreal. [9]
- At other and more poignant moments he saw her as waving him bravely on while he steamed out through towering seas to safety. [9]
- May Heaven in mercy protect the youths beyond seas! [10]
- There were, however, marvels to stir her, strange landscapes, cities, seas, and ships,--once a fire in the forest of a western reserve with gigantic tongues of orange flame leaping from tree to tree. [9]
- And through the marvels of the Inland Seas, and by white conestogas threading flat forests and floating over wide prairies, until the two tides met in a maelstrom as fierce as any in the great tawny torrent of the strange Father of Waters. [9]
- Now a good map--" "Is it peradventure that manner of thing which of late the unbelievers have brought from over the great seas, which, being boiled in oil, and an onion and salt added thereto, doth--" "What, a map? [5]
- Ah, and how many a time have I imagined that I might myself rise and fly after my froward, dear, unduteous exile, my own Gotz, be he where he may, over mountains and seas to the ends of the earth!--I, a hapless, suffering skeleton! [10]
- And Mr. Cooke, manfully keeping his station on the weather bow, likewise went through the seas. [9]
- High mountains and low valleys, And shreds of silver seas, The lone brook's sudden sallies, And all the joys of these,-- These were, but now the fire Volcanic seeks the sea, And dark wave walls retire Tyrannic seeking me. [11]
- So strange they looked in those tropical seas that he was near to catching me in a laugh as he straightened up. [9]
- Our only hope lay in keeping her head-on to the seas. [5]
- There was no lack of these noble birds, and the bravest of them all, a falcon from Iceland beyond seas, had been brought thence by Seyfried Kubbeling of Brunswick. [10]
- In all the journey to the West Indian seas there had been only three formal floggings. [11]
- The half of it belonged to England, with none to dispute or deny the truth; the other half belonged to nobody--in three months would be flying the English flag; the French King was making ready to throw away his crown and flee beyond the seas. [5]
- The Arundel Castle is the finest boat I have seen in these seas. [5]
- His blood surged in his veins, and before his mind rose the vision of the corn-flower blue sky, mirrored in the calm surface of the bluest of seas. [10]
- When one is in distant seas and in danger of his life, one will hoist any flag, sail to any port, pay homage to any king. [11]
- Kunz lies wounded in a strange land, Young Kubbeling would doubtless be ready to cross the seas, notwithstanding his fever, but good-will would not serve him, so little is he skilled in such matters. [10]
- As melts the iceberg in the seas, As clouds give rain to the eastern breeze, As snow-banks thaw in April's beam, The solid kingdoms like a dream Resist in vain his motive strain, They totter now and float amain. [6]
- The navy, as I understand it, was established, and is maintained at a great annual expense, partly to be ready for war when war shall come, and partly also, and perhaps chiefly, for the protection of our commerce on the high seas. [7]
- Awakening at dawn, I saw, framed in a port-hole, rose-red Seriphos set in a living blue that paled the sapphire; the seas Ulysses had sailed, and the company of the Argonauts. [9]
- Heading her up, however, makes the boat ship seas and keeps us all wet; however, it cannot be helped. [5]
- The next three hours were spent in tacking, in beating towards the Jersey coast under seas which almost swamped them. [11]
- On the particular hot morning in question, as he stood in his seersucker coat reading the unquestionably pompous letter of Mr. Allison announcing that his niece was on the high seas, he returned the greetings of his friends with his usual kindness and cheer. [9]
- It is a holiday harbor, all these seas are holiday seas--the yachts, the sail vessels, the puffing steamers, moving swiftly from one headland to another, or loafing about the blue, smiling sea, are all on pleasure bent. [4]
- Even Kubbeling shook his head, albeit he spoke not, inasmuch as he knew that it was hard to contend with the powers beyond seas. [10]
- Yet here is his finest and nicest work exactly duplicated in our day; and by people who have never heard of him or his works: by aborigines who lived in the islands of these seas, within our time. [5]
- The seas tossed him here and there. [11]
- I came over here to get the honorary degree from Oxford, and I would have encompassed the seven seas for an honor like that--the greatest honor that has ever fallen to my share. [5]
- She had dropped her anchor in perilous seas, but it had never dragged. [11]
- The seas danced her about like a duck, but she was safe and capable. [5]
- For some time he was our only man of letters who had a reputation beyond seas. [4]
- It is a haven of shelter and refreshment for our merchants, fishermen, seamen, and other citizens, when on their lawful occasions they are navigating the eastern seas and oceans. [7]
- Some of you have seen this great civilization actually grow on the vacant prairies, in the unoccupied wilderness, on the sandy shores of the inland seas. [4]
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