Do we say ocean or sea

ocean 5577 occurrences

The front view presents the bay, denominated the Bay of the Tomb: a little on the right is seen the Cape of Misfortune; and beyond rolls the expanded ocean, on the surface of which appear a few uninhabited islands, and, among others, the Point of Endeavour, which resembles a bastion built upon the flood.

Disturb'd and wild as ocean's troubled breast, When the hoarse tempest of the night is there Yet my complaining spirit asks no rest; This bleeding bosom cherishes despair.

I was more and more lost in astonishment at the subtle and boundless art of love which could so contrive to reach across an ocean, and surround a man's daily life with its expression.

In this wonderful colourwhich seemed to borrow the richness of its hue rather from its depth than from any pigment of its own, just as beyond soundings the ocean changes from green to bluean hundred moods seem to rise slowly from within, to swim visible, even though the mere expression of her face gave no sign of them.

Here it is, this little nation, only a trifle larger than the State of Pennsylvania, a half-Latin island in an ocean of Magyars and Slavs.

What an [insignificant ] Creature am I in this prodigious Ocean of Waters; my Existence is of no

But the Northern mills have usually six months' supply; and Great Britain holds upon an average enough for three months in her ports, for two months at her mills, and as much more upon the ocean.

You have already learned how the English people had control of all that part of our country which borders upon the Atlantic Ocean.

"All the land from ocean to ocean," they said, "belongs to the King of England.

"All the land from ocean to ocean," they said, "belongs to the King of England.

It is, then, only upon the ocean that I am likely to find that equality and rights of man which we are so anxious to establish on shore; and therefore I have resolved not to go to school again, which I detest, but to go to sea.

"No wonder that no one interferes with another here, or talks about a trespass; for I am sure anyone is welcome to my share of the ocean.

"I'd not only give up the ocean," thought Jack, "and my share of it, but also my share of the Harpy, unto anyone who fancies it.

The two men gained the summit of the rock; the wide, waste, engulfing ocean was beneath.

The winds that o'er my ocean run Reach through all heavens beyond the sun; Through life and death, through fate, through time, Grand breaths of God, they sweep sublime.

Would earth's dark ocean suck thee down? Earth's ocean thou, O Life, shalt drown, Shalt flood it with thy finer wave, And, sepulchred, entomb thy grave!

Would earth's dark ocean suck thee down? Earth's ocean thou, O Life, shalt drown, Shalt flood it with thy finer wave, And, sepulchred, entomb thy grave!

So Life must live, and Soul must sail, And Unseen over Seen prevail, And all God's argosies come to shore, Let ocean smile, or rage and roar.

He was coming to me, across the ocean, and I could smile as I thought of how this thing and that would strike him, and of the smile that would light up his face now and the look of joy that would come into his eyes at the sudden sighting of some beautiful spot.

Ireland had to me the disadvantage of being a dependency of the British government, and therefore a place of less security than most other countries which are divided from it by the ocean.

Besides the foregoing, there are the eastern rivers, and the deep bays on the ocean board.

The name of De Witt Clinton will ever be associated with this great and useful work, by which the whole commerce of the ocean lakes is poured into the Hudson, and thence to the Atlantic.

[Footnote BC: By the Illinois and Michigan Canal the ocean lakes communicate with the Mississippi; and when the channel is made by Lake Nipissing, there will be an unbroken watercourse between New Orleans, New York, Bytown, and Quebec.]

From Corra Linn, where roars the Clyde, To Dornoch's ocean bay From Tweed, that rolls a neutral tide, To lonely Colinsay: But see, the stars wax faint and few, Death's frown is dark and stern But darker soon shall rise to view Yon field of Bannockburn!"

The same rule applies in other cases: and thus the planet Jupiter will be masculine; Venus, feminine: the ocean, Oce=anus, masculine: rivers, months, and winds, the same: the names of places, countries, and islands, feminine.

sea 31491 occurrences

The integrity of a land-frontier is guaranteed by the whole strength of the nation included within it, and can only be modified by a struggle for existence with the neighbor on whom it borders; but islands by their geographical nature constitute independent political units, easily detached from or incorporated with larger domains, according to the momentary fluctuation in the balance of sea-power.

The islands in this sea are uniformly Greek in population, but their respective geographical positions and political fortunes differentiate them into several groups.

'See', they said, 'how the two islands flank both sides of the sea-passage to Smyrna, the terminus of all the railways which penetrate the Anatolian interior, while Mitylini barricades Aivali and Edremid as well.

Due eastward she will re-baptize the glistening city of Ala Shehr with its ancient name of Philadelphia, under which it held out heroically for Hellenism many years after Aidin had become the capital of a Moslem principality and the Turkish avalanche had rolled past it to the sea.

Such an association should embrace the Balkans in their widest extent from the Black Sea to the Adriatic and from the Carpathians to the Aegean; for, in sharp contrast to the inextricable chaos of its linguistic and ecclesiastical divisions, the region constitutes economically a homogeneous and indivisible whole, in which none of the parts can divest themselves of their mutual interdependence.

The most powerful of these invaders were the Goths (271-375), who, coming from the shores of the Baltic, had shortly before settled north of the Black Sea.

The Rumanians were separated from the Romans, following the occupation by the Slavs of the Roman provinces between the Adriatic and the Black Sea.

Parts of the Rumanian country became dependent upon the new state founded between the Balkans and the Danube in 679 by the Bulgarians, a people of Turanian origin, who formerly inhabited the regions north of the Black Sea between the Volga and the mouth of the Danube.

These are the Dead Sea fruits of dynastic policy.

They were then the inhabitants, strong and predatory, of the Altai plains and valleys: but later on, about the sixth century A.D., they are found firmly established in what is still called Turkestan, and pushing westwards towards the Caspian Sea.

In fact it was a debatable land, an angle pushed up between the lake plain of Nicaea on the one hand and the plain of Brusa on the other, and divided from each by not lofty heights, Yenishehr, its chief town, which became the Osmanli chief Ertogrul's residence, lies, as the crow flies, a good deal less than fifty miles from the Sea of Marmora, and not a hundred miles from Constantinople itself.

Once in Constantinople, the latter, long a land power only, would be bound to concern themselves with the sea also.

The Venetians made no effort worthy of their apprehensions, though these were indeed exceedingly well founded; for, as all the world knows, to the sea the Osmanlis did at once betake themselves.

Russia, seeking an economic outlet, had sapped her way south to the Euxine shore, and was on the point of challenging the Osmanli right to that sea.

During the ten years following 1764 Osmanli hold on the Black Sea was lost irretrievably.

The thrice-foiled claimant to its succession, who six years before had denounced the Black Sea clause of the Treaty of Paris and so freed its hands for offence, was manifestly preparing a fresh assault.

" To which the lovely maiden answers: "The great Jaw-waw that rules our Land, And pearly Indian sea Has not so absolute Command As thou hast over me, With a Jimminy, Gomminy, Gomminy, Jimminy, Jimminy, Gomminy, whee.

She has overshadowed Colley Cibber, who is more dazed than chagrined at the dénouement, and she has proved more potent for the public amusement than all the beauties of "Jimminy, Gomminy," with its elephants, its jaw-waw, and its pearly Indian Sea.

The Don flows home to the sea.

The sea is all around.

Great stories of the sea and ships.

The Don flows home to the sea.

Sea power and British North America, 1783-1820; a study in British Colonial policy.

Later Janus Nicius Erythraeus, that is Giovanni Vittorio Rossi, in his Pinacoteca, compared the play to a rock-infested sea full of seductive sirens, in which no small number of girls and wives were said to have made shipwreck.

Alceo shows less resourcefulness than his prototype in that he twice tries to commit suicide by throwing himself into the sea.

Do we say   ocean   or  sea