11 Metaphors for strait

These straits, which extend from the south-east to the northwest, are the great commercial highway of the Archipelago, and remain navigable during the whole year, being protected from the fury of the north-easterly winds by the sheltering peninsula of Luzon, which projects to the south-east, and by Samar, which extends in a parallel direction; while the Bisayan islands shield them from the blasts that blow from the south-west.

And though that strait is actually land, yet it is the means of acquiring the dominion of both seas, and by which such enormous riches have been discovered and conveyed to Spain; for it was GODS will that this vast concern should be so found out, as from this canoe the admiral received the first information respecting New Spain.

CUMBERLAND STRAIT is in latitude 11 degrees 25 minutes, longitude 135 degrees 31 minutes.

The whole Strait was now open water to the N. of Cape Armitage, with the frost smoke rising everywhere from it, and full of pieces of floating ice, all going up N. to Ross Sea.

They might also urge that the strait to which they are often brought by the non-payment of accounts due from their wealthier customers, is itself a cause of their malpractices: obliging them, as it does, to use all means, illegitimate as well as legitimate, for getting the wherewith to meet their engagements.

"Strait is the gate, and narrow the way, that leads to life eternal.

A strait is a narrow passage of water that joins two larger bodies of water.

SCOTT'S STRAIT is a channel separating Bigge's Island from the main: it is thirteen miles long, and from three to one and a quarter broad.

The strait by which each gulf is entered is about a hundred miles in length and ten in breadth.

All straits, and none but straits are ways to them, Whether where Japhet dwelt, or Cham, or Sem.

Until this time, the Kentucky settlers had been literally fighting for life and home, and again and again their strait had been so bad, that it seemedand wasalmost an even chance whether they would be driven from the land.

11 Metaphors for  strait