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

Thus this brook," says Fuller, "hath conveyed his ashes into Avon, Avon into Severn, Severn into the narrow seas, they into the main ocean.

From Cabinet Portrait Gallery of British Worthies Volume I by Anonymous

Not content with the booty they obtained in the narrow seas, the privateers, often in large fleets, boldly traversed the ocean in search of Spanish argosies in the West Indies and on the Spanish main.

From How Britannia Came to Rule the Waves Updated to 1900 by Kingston, William Henry Giles

It was a pompous spectacle that midsummer night upon those narrow seas.

From The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. X (of X) - America - II, Index by Lodge, Henry Cabot