transmarine
Example Sentences
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Such intelligence the Hebridians probably receive from their transmarine correspondents.
From Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland by Samuel Johnson
An oath was required from the bishops, who were assembled at Carthage, that they would support the succession of his son Hilderic, and that they would renounce all foreign or transmarine correspondence.
From History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 3 by Henry Hart Milman
Formerly, the monastic funds were drawn upon to excess in defraying the costs of a transmarine visitation.
From The Uncollected Writings of Thomas de Quincey—Vol. 1 With a Preface and Annotations by James Hogg by James Hogg
Hides her red hands in gloves, pinches up her lithe waist, And makes herself wretched with transmarine taste; She loses her fresh country charm when she takes Any mirror except her own rivers and lakes.
From The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell by James Russell Lowell
Wonders were told concerning pillars inlaid with bronze, amber, ivory, mother of pearl, and transmarine tortoise-shells.
From Quo Vadis: a narrative of the time of Nero by Jeremiah Curtin
