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 hundred years later another fleet conveyed a foreign army across the narrow seas from the Netherlands to change effectively the course of English affairs.

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

Although stationed largely in the narrow seas, there were set no limits to the latitude and longitude of their employment.

From Merchantmen-at-arms : the British merchants' service in the war by Bone, David W. (David William)

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