narrow seas

British  

plural noun

1. archaic the channels between Great Britain and the Continent and Great Britain and Ireland

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Example Sentences

The first colonists would thus have needed boats to cross some narrow seas in order to settle this land.

From Economist • Jan. 17, 2013

It looks now as if the battle were to be fought on the narrow seas that separate Britain from the Continent.

From Time Magazine Archive

It was his function to guard Spanish treasure ships all the way across the Atlantic, from Mexico to Spain, as he had formerly guarded them in the narrow seas about the Indies.

From The History of Cuba, vol. 1 by Johnson, Willis Fletcher

His dazzling achievements as a general have obscured his more sober qualities as a ruler, and even the sound strategy, with which he aimed to be master of the narrow seas.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 3 "Helmont, Jean" to "Hernosand" by Various

So they took care to make the narrow seas an impassable barrier to the enemy by harrying the covering fleet and making it hopeless for Parma even to think of sending his transports to sea.

From Famous Sea Fights From Salamis to Tsu-Shima by Hale, John Richard