German Ocean
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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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
There he lay for several hours exhausted and insensible, unwitting of the storm from the German Ocean that was raging among the sandhills near its shores.
From The Danes Sketched by Themselves. Vol. II (of 3) A Series of Popular Stories by the Best Danish Authors by Various
From the mountain-top to which Helen's mantle has borne him, he can see the German Ocean, with its tides daily covering great stretches of the flat shore, and rendering them brackish and uninhabitable.
From Three Philosophical Poets Lucretius, Dante, and Goethe by Santayana, George
The North Sea or German Ocean, my dear Tsar, No doubt hath its pearls, It also hath other things, As, for example, a Dover-Ostend route.
From Outlook Odes by Crosland, T. W. H. (Thomas William Hodgson)
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