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- proper noun obsolete
North Sea
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Examples
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On the north it is bounded by the same vast unnavigable Ocean, from which by means of a sort of projecting arm of land a bay is cut off and forms the German Sea.
The Origin and Deeds of the Goths Jordanes
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Hollowly the German Sea was booming on the rocks of the harbor; and from its hazy surface a cold east wind swept over the flat, bleak coast of
The International Monthly Magazine, Volume 5, No. 1, January, 1852 Various
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You are the inhabitants of an island of no collossal size, which, geographically speaking, was intended by nature as the appendage of some continental empireeither of Gauls and Franks on the other side of the Channel, or of Teutons and Scandinavians beyond the German Sea.
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The chronometers, forty-two in number, crossed the German Sea sixteen times.
Autobiography Airy, George Biddell, Sir 1896
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It seemed that the fierce German Sea might beat the life from him, but with all its strength it was unable to tear this one-idea'd man from the woman whom he loved.
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It seemed that the fierce German Sea might beat the life from him, but with all its strength it was unable to tear this one-idea'd man from the woman whom he loved.
The Captain of the Polestar Arthur Conan Doyle 1894
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On the Island of Sylt, in the German Sea, where there are several rows, the width of the belt is from half a mile to a mile.
Earth as Modified by Human Action, The~ Chapter 05 (historical) 1874
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Thames, over the plain which now forms the German Sea into the Arctic
The Beauties of Nature and the Wonders of the World We Live In John Lubbock 1873
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"I'm ordered to sail with the Hot Cross Bun to the German Sea."
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Strait, Ruim Island -- the Holm of the Headland -- stood out with its white wall of broken cliffs into the German Sea.
Science in Arcady Grant Allen 1873
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