narrow seas

British  

plural noun

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

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narrow seas

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

A Dutch fleet had assisted in defeating the Armada, but the rise of this naval power on the eastern shores of the narrow seas made rivalry with England on the waters inevitable.

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

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 William Henry Giles Kingston

The waves were bounding about us with that short and angry leap peculiar, in tempestuous weather, to the narrow seas between England and France.

From Rattlin the Reefer by Frederick Marryat

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