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:

    “A strange and vanity-devoured, detestable woman! I do not believe I could ever learn to like her except on a raft at sea with no other provisions in sight.”
    —Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)

    “The sea curling,
    Star-climbed, wind-combed, cumbered with itself still
    As at first it was, is the hand no yet contented
    Of the Creator. And he waits for the world to begin.”
    —William Stanley Merwin (b. 1927)

    “The sea has neither meaning nor pity.”
    —Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860–1904)