8 Metaphors for mediterranean

This "sea Mediterranean" is a most filthy, fetid, uncovered gutter, running down the middle of the most, even of the best streets, and with which every merciless Jehu most liberally bespatters the unhappy pedestrian.

The Mediterranean, and the deeper Swiss lakes, are also a blue of various tints, due also to the presence of suspended matter, which Professor Tyndall thought might be so fine that it would require ages of quiet subsidence to reach the bottom.

The Eastern Mediterranean, after the capture of Rhodes, was almost entirely a Turkish preserve.

In the year 1823, the Mediterranean was one sheet of ice; the people of the south never experienced so severe a winter, or, if they did, there is no mention made of it in history.

But the Mediterranean is not the deep sea, nor has it produced the best and boldest navigators.

Alexander is scarce gone ere we hear Carthage boasting that the Mediterranean is but a private lake in her possession.

But the Mediterranean, with the rivers which flowed into it, was the great highway of the ancient navigator.

The Mediterranean was for them only a port that they crossed carelessly on departure and arrival.

8 Metaphors for  mediterranean