Seas

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Sea is a big body of water.

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• A famous part of the Anabasis is Xenophon's description of the Greeks, shouting "Thalassa, thalassa" (the sea, the sea) at the top of a great dune, when they saw the sea. [1]

• Alone, alone, all, all alone,
  Alone on a wide wide sea!
  And never a saint took pity on
  My soul in agony.
  • Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Rhyme of the Ancient Mariner

• A singular disadvantage of the sea lies in the fact that after successfully surmounting one wave you discover that there is another behind it just as important and just as nervously anxious to do something effective in the way of swamping boats.
  • Stephen Crane, The Open Boat (1894)

• It keeps eternal whisperings around
  Desolate shores, and with its mighty swell
  Gluts twice ten thousand Caverns, till the spell
  Of Hecate leaves them their old shadowy sound.
  • John Keats, On the Sea (1817)

• All that is told of the sea has a fabulous sound to an inhabitant of the land, and all its products have a certain fabulous quality, as if they belonged to another planet, from seaweed to a sailor’s yarn, or a fish story. In this element the animal and vegetable kingdoms meet and are strangely mingled.
  • Henry David Thoreau [2]

• Behold, the sea itself
  • Walt Whitman, Song of the Exposition

• I must down to the seas again, to the lonely sea and the sky,
  And all I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by.
  • John Masefield, Sea-Fever