German Ocean
Britishnoun
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“That’s like the bloody German Ocean out there.”
From "The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage" by Philip Pullman
It wasn’t long before another sensation joined them, as the vessel began to roll in the German Ocean swell.
From "The Golden Compass" by Philip Pullman
The length of German coast on the North Sea or German Ocean is 293 m., and on the Baltic 927 m., the intervening land boundary on the north of Schleswig being only 47 m.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 7 "Geoponici" to "Germany" by Various
Taking a wider range we get a distant glimpse of the wide Atlantic, and the coast of green Erin, the mountains of Cumberland, and the German Ocean, washing the north-eastern coasts of Scotland.
From The Genius of Scotland or Sketches of Scottish Scenery, Literature and Religion by Turnbull, Robert
Here Esau, who had his deck shoes on, seeing what sort of a mood John was in, stole away quietly towards the cabin, and left him prosing on to the German Ocean.
From Three in Norway by Two of Them by Clutterbuck, Walter J.
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