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

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

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 Marryat, Frederick

He is even said to have fired a gun as he approached Philip's squadron, in order to compel it to lower its topsails in acknowledgment of the supremacy of the English in the "narrow seas."

From History of the Reign of Philip the Second, King of Spain, Vols. 1 and 2 by Prescott, William Hickling