Quotes About Ocean

By "sea wolves" Pigafetta meant the sub-Antarctic sea lion or the sea elephant

reach the fabulous Indies by sailing westward across the ocean.

Thirty-eight days later, Magellan spied the Pacific Ocean and wept with joy.

His relief did not last long. He faced the largest body of water on the planet

At sea, days were divided into six four-hour shifts, called watches.

but the sea yielded only a few planks broken off from Santiago's hull.

routes between Asia and Europe were severed. The prospect of establishing a spice trade via an ocean route opened up

were inspired by Ptolemy. Had Magellan comprehended the size of the Pacific

without the Pacific Ocean to inform his calculations, the estimated length of his route came to only half the actual distance.

and accomplished mariners dared to venture into the Ocean Sea, as the Atlantic Ocean was then known.

set sail for the Spice Islands.

especially for those born in ports and maritime areas. This sort is the most numerous among mariners

Tov?r??ia m?rii îmi ajunge.Nu vreau pe nimeni.În via?? nu am nimic al meu.L?saÅ£i-mi cel puÅ£in marea.

Look how the pale queen of the silent night Doth cause the ocean to attend upon her....

submarines in another. Soon a third

The black clouds make the black sea. (Les nuages noirs Font la mer noire)

The dark clouds make the black sea. (Les nuages noirs Font la mer noire)

The seamen said it blew great guns.

Mankind was my business. The common welfare was my business; charity, mercy, forbearance, benevolence, were all my business. The dealings of my trade were but a drop of water in the comprehensive ocean of my business!

a sea to intensely blue to be looked at, and a sky of purple, set with one great flaming jewel of fire...

IN SUCH RISINGS of fire and risings of sea—the firm earth shaken by the rushes of an angry ocean which had now no ebb, but was always on the flow, higher and higher, to the terror and wonder of the beholders on the shore—three years of tempest were consumed.

Mankind was my business. The common welfare was my business; charity, mercy, forbearance, and benevolence, were, all, my business. The dealings of my trade were but a drop of water in the comprehensive ocean of my business!

We strolled a long way, and loaded ourselves with things that we thought curious, and put some stranded starfish carefully back into the water—I hardly know enough of the race at this moment to be quite certain whether they had reason to feel obliged to us for doing so, or the reverse—and then made our way home to Mr. Peggotty's dwelling.

had passed from its surface and this earth's together. Haunted in a most ghastly manner that abominable place would have been, if the glass could ever have rendered back its reflections, as the ocean is one day to give up its dead. Some passing thought of the infamy and disgrace for which it had been reserved, may have struck the prisoner's mind. Be that as it may, a change in his position