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

He claimed, also, the right of England to the sovereignty of the narrow seas, asserting that from time immemorial it had been undisputed.

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

The Londoner of Athelstan and Ethelred was an Anglo-Saxon of a type far in advance of his fierce ancestor who swept the narrow seas and harried the eastern coasts.

From The History of London by Besant, Walter, Sir

But Phrixus and the Ram flew on up the narrow seas, and over the great sea which the Greeks called the Euxine and we call the Black Sea, till they reached a country named Colchis.

From Tales of Troy and Greece by Lang, Andrew