Sea

Sea

A sea is a large body of saline water that may be connected with an ocean or may be a large saline lake that, like the Caspian Sea, lacks a natural outlet. Sometimes the terms sea and ocean are used synonymously.

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Famous quotes containing the word sea:

    “Ere long, not only these banks, but on every hill and plain and in every hollow, the frost comes out of the ground like a dormant quadruped from its burrow, and seeks the sea with music, or migrates to other climes in clouds.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “Generation on generation, your neck rubbed the windowsill
    of the stall, smoothing the wood as the sea smooths glass.”
    —Donald Hall (b. 1928)

    “The sea is calm to-night.
    The tide is full, the moon lies fair
    Upon the straits;—”
    —Matthew Arnold (1822–1888)