German Ocean

In a tradition immortalized by a fine ballad of Southey's, it is said that the abbots of Aberbrothwick, in their munificent humanity preserved a beacon on that dangerous reef of rock in the German Ocean, which is supposed to have received its name of the "Bell Rock" from the peculiar character of the warning machinery of which the abbot made use:

The American Architect and Building News, Vol. 27, Jan-Mar, 1890 Various

a night of hate (it isn't for nothing that the North Sea is also called the German Ocean) -- when all the fury stored in its heart seemed concentrated on one ship which could do no better than float on her side in an unnatural, disagreeable, precarious, and altogether intolerable manner.

Notes on Life and Letters Joseph Conrad 1890

The Admiral -- Manx Bradley -- was guiding his fleet over that part of the German Ocean which is described on the deep-sea fisherman's chart as the Swarte, or Black Bank.

The Lively Poll A Tale of the North Sea 1859

The pale moon, which had hitherto been contending with flitting clouds, now shone out, and gave them a view of the solitary and naked tower, situated on a projecting cliff that beetled on the German Ocean.

The Bride of Lammermoor 2008

They are long past Dunkirk now; the German Ocean is opening before them.

Westward Ho! 2007

May lighthouse, where the Firth expands into the German Ocean; and away to the west, over all the carse of Stirling, you can see the first snows upon Ben Ledi.

Edinburgh Picturesque Notes 2005

Dunnottar, having a window opening to the front of a precipice which overhangs the German Ocean.

Old Mortality 2004

After looking at the ruins, they sought the shade of a little wood between the village and the low sand-hills which overlook the German Ocean.

No Name 2003

Flamborough Head: Lulworth is on the southern coast of England, west of the Isle of Wight: Flamborough Head is on the northeastern coast of England and extends into the German Ocean.

Autobiography and Selected Essays 2003

As I sat there that evening in Southwold overlooking the German Ocean, I sensed quite clearly the earth's slow turning into the dark….

Out of Novemberland Andr&233; Aciman 1998