Ocean steamers have made but a ferriage of seas.

As a little boy, "life on the ocean wave" was to John Franklin a delightful day-dream.

To-day, the sea-sage rules the fishing-boat, the ocean liner, the coastwise steamers, and the lake-lines of the world.

Not nearly so exciting as performances of the kind referred to, though, perhaps, quite as rash, are the ocean voyages occasionally essayed by tiny, toy ships.

She ran into an iceberg off the Banks of Newfoundland at 11.40 Sunday night, April 14th, and at twenty minutes past two sank in two miles of ocean depth.

The others we shall probably not see: any one of a score of ocean currents may have swept them far away.

One of these men paused long enough to give him a sealed dispatch,the message to which the ocean-bed, the Midgard ooze, had thrilled beneath his tardy keel.

Hence it follows that these silicious organisms, though they are not heavier than the lightest dust, must have fallen, in some cases, through fifteen thousand feet of water, before they reached their final resting-place on the ocean floor.

The cool ocean breezes blew the fever away.

Nearly all of them are swashed and drifted by wind and tide back and forth in the fiords until finally melted by the ocean water, the sunshine, the warm winds, and the copious rains of summer.

Nearly two centuries and a half have made wonderful changes in ocean travel.

As long as the condition mentioned is satisfied our ocean communications will be kept open, because an inferior enemy, who cannot obtain the command required, will be too much occupied in seeing to his own safety to be able to interfere seriously with that of any part of our empire.

During the year 1916, whilst I was still in command of the Grand Fleet, suggestions as to convoys had been forwarded to the Admiralty for the better protection of the ocean trade against attack by surface vessels; but it was pointed out to me that the number of cruisers available for escort work was entirely insufficient, and that, consequently, the suggestions could not be adopted.

As the Portuguese sought, and at last found, an ocean route by the east around Africa, so Columbus meditated a westward voyage, and was the first to seek India in that direction.

had you seen the glistening tear in the eye of that noble father, as, but a few hours before, they consigned their idolized child to the mercies of the deep; had you heard that prayer to God, if it might be his will, to spare their darling from an ocean-grave, your great heart would have been, if possible, kindled to a greater love for that helpless little one!

The ocean trip did Mary much good.

Here watch, of every human friend disowned, All day, my ready tomb the ocean-flood 1798.

It stretched from the sea through Ramscapelle, Dixmude, Roulers, Paschendaal to Ypres and the rage of battle swayed like a tossing ship in ocean storm.

4 In the ocean stream in a Palace they were born.

Oh! weird West Wind, that comest from the sea, Sad with the murmur of the weary waves, Wand'ring for ever through old ocean caves, Why troublest thou the hearts that list to thee, With echoes of forgotten misery?

Not capriciously did the subtile Greek imagination derive the birth of Venus from the foam of the sea; for social love,that vast reticulation of wedlock which society ishas commonly arisen not far from the ocean-shore.

Give man the listening heart, the seeing eye; Give life; let sea-derived fountain well, Within his spirit, infant waves, to tell Of the far ocean-mysteries that lie Silent upon the horizon,evermore Falling in voices on the human shore.

United States Postoffice department takes control of all ocean cable lines, consent of other governments having been obtained.

A journey, a voyage, a tropic isle, The hush of the forest, the ocean blue, A lament for all that is false and vile, A paean for all that is good and true.

If it were a matter of islands and ocean bays, I would have long ago riddled out the heart of it.