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From Tidewater to the Sea
Chapter 16 Chapter 18 From Tidewater to the Sea Near the mouth of the river which the explorers named Quicksand River (now Sandy), they met a party of fifteen Indians who had…Deep Blue Sea
Director:Renny HarlinWriters:Duncan Kennedy, Donna Powers and Wayne PowersWarner Bros.; 100 minutes; RRelease:7/99Cast:Saffron Burrows, Thomas Jane, LL Cool J, Samuel L. Jackson In Deep Blue…Brewer's: Bride of the Sea
Venice; so called from the ancient ceremony of the Doge, who threw a ring into the Adriatic, saying, “We wed thee, O sea, in token of perpetual domination.” Source: Dictionary of Phrase…Brewer's: Cronian Sea
The north polar sea. Pliny says, “A Thule unius diei navigatione mare concretum, a nonnullis cronium appellatur. ” (Natural History, iv. 16.) As when two polar winds blowing adverse Upon…Brewer's: Dead Sea
So the Romans called the “Salt Sea.” Josephus says that the vale of Siddim was changed into the Dead Sea at the destruction of Sodom (Antiq. i. 8, 3, etc.). The water is of a dull green…Brewer's: Red Sea
The sea of the Red Man —i.e. Edom. Also called the “sedgy sea,” because of the sea-weed which collects there. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894Red-shanksRed…Brewer's: Sea Deities
Amphitrite (4 syl.). Wife of Poseidon (3 syl.), queen goddess of the sea. N.B. Neptune had no wife. Doto, a sea-nymph, mentioned by Virgil. Galatea, a daughter of Nereus. Glaucus, a…Brewer's: Sea Legs
He has got his sea legs. Is able to walk on deck when the ship is rolling; able to bear the motion of the ship without sea-sickness. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham…Brewer's: Sea Serpent
Pontoppidan, in his Natural History of Norway, speaks of sea serpents 600 feet long. The great sea serpent was said to have been seen off the coast of Norway in 1819, 1822, 1837. Hans…Brewer's: Black Sea
So called from the abounding black rock in the extensive coal-fields between the Bosphorus and Heracle'a. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894Black SheepBlack…Trending
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