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Black Sea
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  • As I sat on the black beach, exhausted and covered in oil, I stared at the sun setting over a black sea and felt like it was the end of the world.†   (source)
  • "To the Black Sea," she added.†   (source)
  • If the earth had no atmosphere, Aziza had said a little breathlessly,the sky wouldn …t be blue at all but a pitch-black sea and the sun a big bright star in the dark "Is Aziza coming home with us this time?"†   (source)
  • The black sea closed above us.†   (source)
  • She floated, serene and at peace, on a black sea that knew no shore.†   (source)
  • My father ruled the far shores of the Black Sea, as far to the east as a Greek ship could sail in those days.†   (source)
  • It was floating on a black sea.†   (source)
  • This "black sea" of people was restless.†   (source)
  • Two years later, Ahmad had graduated and was crisscrossing the Mediterranean and the Black Sea.†   (source)
  • The black sea smoothed.†   (source)
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  • About 4,000 years ago, the primitive Indo-Europeans lived in areas bordering on the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea.†   (source)
  • He watched the lights that played on the still, black sea, from the sky and the shore.†   (source)
  • This includes three from the Med, since submarines there come from the Northern Fleet, not the Black Sea Fleet.†   (source)
  • And in time the waters of the Mediterranean became, in fact, the waters of the Black Sea" The vampire sighed.†   (source)
  • 1346: Tartars send soldiers infected with the plague over the wall in the siege of Caffa on the Black Sea.†   (source)
  • The valley below was as dark as a black sea.†   (source)
  • And your parents followed this remarkable man across the black sea of prejudice, safely out of the land of ignorance, through the storms of fear and anger, shouting, LET MY PEOPLE GO!†   (source)
  • Forget the lousy house in Geneva, Kruppie, how about a mansion on the Black Sea?†   (source)
  • Sing with me, the duende cries, sing for the black sea that awaits your voice.†   (source)
  • We stared out at the garden, an aromatic black sea of vegetation that breathed in the salt from the river.†   (source)
  • It looked first like a black mist creeping on the ground, then like the stormy waves of a black sea rising higher and higher as it came on, and then, at last, like what it was woods on the move.†   (source)
  • It wasn't anywhere near the Black Sea, or I would have remembered.†   (source)
  • The wind had sunk to about forty miles an hour from the east, and there was no snow falling as we took off through a black sea fog, promptly lost sight of Churchill, and circled into the northwest.†   (source)
  • Egypt claimed its ships, bound from the Black Sea to Alexandria, were being delayed in the Straits, and charged Turkey with a breach of the Montreaux Convention.†   (source)
  • Russia hasn't got a port that doesn't freeze up in the winter except Odessa, and that's on the Black Sea.†   (source)
  • Having entered all cotton shacks during the hour, having flooded all the valuables out, it was now carrying the clocks and the washboards, the silk bolts and curtain rods on down to some distant black sea.†   (source)
  • So is the Gulf of Finland, Alex, and, I believe, the Black Sea.†   (source)
  • He'd taken a Black Sea cruise the previous summer and become hopelessly seasick.†   (source)
  • In A.D. 330 Constantine the Great moved the capital of the Empire from Rome to Constantinople, the city he had founded at the approach to the Black Sea.†   (source)
  • "I wasn't raised on the Black Sea."†   (source)
  • I was raised in a fishing village on the Black Sea, so I've tied more than my share of knots and filleted more than my share of fish."†   (source)
  • In a few months I will retire, and in recognition of my years of service in southern Europe and the Mediterranean, I will share a fine dacha on the Black Sea where my children will come and visit me.†   (source)
  • I myself would prefer to outflank them by way of Norway or the Black Sea, but, not being British, we don't have that option.†   (source)
  • Then, during that third telephone call, like a crack of thunder over the Black Sea, Grigorie Rodchenko was struck by an idea so dramatically bold, yet so patently obvious and simple, that he had momentarily lost his breath.†   (source)
  • A trip that would take us at once away from the glittering capitals of Europe towards the Black Sea, where we would dock at Varna and begin that search in the rural countryside of the Carpathians.†   (source)
  • Several hundred of his missile and air bases, from the Chukchi Peninsula to the Baltic, and from Vladivostok to the Black Sea, have certainly been destroyed.†   (source)
  • The procession moved slowly and quietly through a black sea of men and women dressed for mourning.†   (source)
  • Behind them came the bulk of the army—a black sea of creepy-crawlies.†   (source)
  • We thank you for your stars that watch over us as we sail this cold black sea.†   (source)
  • The lights were as beacons in a black sea.†   (source)
  • A mile out, they would arrange the boats in a circle on the black sea, drop their nets, and, holding their lanterns over the water, they would approximate the moon.†   (source)
  • I kept this morbid thought to myself for as long as I could, but when the beacon disappeared a third time and we looked for it so long we couldn't even be sure what section of the rolling black sea it had disappeared from, I shouted, "We have to go back!"†   (source)
  • The black sky went grey as slate; the black sea turned grey-green; the black mountains of Great Wyk across the bay put on the blue-green hues of soldier pines.†   (source)
  • Putting to sea in the magnificent Argo with a great company of warriors, he had sailed in the direction of the Black Sea, and, though delayed by many fabulous dangers, arrived, at last, miles beyond the Bosporus, at the city and palace of King Aeetes.†   (source)
  • He recognized his bushy eyebrows, his watery gray eyes, his chin and the double chin under it, and he knew him for one of France's great modern revolutionary figures who had led the mutiny of the French Navy in the Black Sea.†   (source)
  • They had come, crated on ships, from the Black Sea through the Straits of Marmora, through the Dardanelles, through the Mediterranean and to here, unloaded lovingly at Alicante, assembled ably, tested and found perfect and now flown in lovely hammering precision, the V's tight and pure as they came now high and silver in the morning sun to blast those ridges across there and blow them roaring high so that we can go through.†   (source)
  • There we find that only one Black Sea bound ship go out with the tide.†   (source)
  • Wherever he may be in the Black Sea, the Count is hurrying to his destination.†   (source)
  • —It's the Black Sea in a midnight gale.†   (source)
  • Omme ignotum pro magnifico, and so with heavy hearts we start to find what ships leave for the Black Sea last night.†   (source)
  • It's no canny to run frae London to the Black Sea wi' a wind ahint ye, as though the Deil himself were blawin' on yer sail for his ain purpose.†   (source)
  • That he scatter his money in making quick inquiry as to what ship sails for the Black Sea and for where.†   (source)
  • But whiles, I thocht that if the Deil was minded to get us into the Black Sea quick, he was like to do it whether we would or no. If we had a quick voyage it would be no to our miscredit wi' the owners, or no hurt to our traffic, an' the Old Mon who had served his ain purpose wad be decently grateful to us for no hinderin' him."†   (source)
  • The blue Mediterranean appeared, and by a strange chance, I saw the fiend enter by night and hide himself in a vessel bound for the Black Sea.†   (source)
  • I have sometimes half suspected that here the winged ram Chrysomallus left that Fleece after which Jason and his Argonauts went vaguely wandering into the shadowy East three thousand years ago; and certainly one might frame a pretty and not far-fetched analogy of witchery and dragons' teeth, and blood and armed men, between the ancient and the modern quest of the Golden Fleece in the Black Sea.†   (source)
  • Signs of renewed collective enterprise and an increased sense of national identity are the Olympic games, founded in 766 B.C., the establishment of an oracular center for all Greeks at Delphi, and a new wave of colonization and exploration that expanded the Greek horizons from the Strait of Gibraltar to the Black Sea beyond the Troad.†   (source)
  • And heaved and heaved, still unrestingly heaved the black sea, as if its vast tides were a conscience; and the great mundane soul were in anguish and remorse for the long sin and suffering it had bred.†   (source)
  • That was done when we were Iying becalmed off Odessa in the Black Sea under Captain Dalton.†   (source)
  • I was in Stockholm and the Black Sea, the Dardanelles under Captain Dalton, the best bloody man that ever scuttled a ship.†   (source)
  • …skies, Tides swift and ample, well-loved by me, toward sundown, The flowing sea-currents, the little islands, larger adjoining islands, the heights, the villas, The countless masts, the white shore-steamers, the lighters, the ferry-boats, the black sea-steamers well-model'd, The down-town streets, the jobbers' houses of business, the houses of business of the ship-merchants and money-brokers, the river-streets, Immigrants arriving, fifteen or twenty thousand in a week, The carts…†   (source)
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