This old church is very large, and has a high spire, which is a useful sea-mark. ❋ Unknown (2003)
Lansallos, one of the mother-parishes of Polperro, has a finely placed church, useful as a sea-mark. ❋ Unknown (N/A)
The same stands in a dark cavern of the sea-cliff rocks, beneath full sea-mark on spring tides, from the top of which cavern fall down or distil continually drops of water from the white, blue, red, and green veins of those rocks .... ❋ Unknown (N/A)
She and other suspected witches were submitted to a series of examinations and tests, which ended in her being burned within the sea-mark on the Fife coast. ❋ James Grant (N/A)
On the high ground, forming a sea-mark for all passing in and out of the Dardanelles, there is a monument 100 feet high which carries the names of 18,000 men of the British Isles. ❋ Unknown (1929)
It was their last beacon, the farthest sea-mark of the Old World. ❋ Frances Jenkins Olcott (1917)
The pedestrian should proceed by way of Lansallos, where the church in the Perpendicular style forms a conspicuous sea-mark. ❋ Sidney Heath (1907)
It is a low, weather-beaten structure with a good tower, and standing nearly 400 feet above the level of the sea, it forms a conspicuous land - and sea-mark. ❋ Sidney Heath (1907)
He booked as through passenger until she should reach "the utmost sea-mark of her farthest sail." ❋ Various (1905)
Old affection, old admiration, old faith, and regard came pouring back in a warm tide, thrilling, suffusing his consciousness, drowning all but one thought -- one proud thought that stood like a sea-mark above the flood, justifying all -- "Even such a man I made my friend!" ❋ Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch (1903)
Could we know the next high sea-mark set beyond these waves that gleam, ❋ Unknown (1902)
Gradually, as the sun went down among orange stains and twisted cloud-wreaths, the creek narrowed and beyond lay a mysterious promontory with shadowy woods and low bare pasture-lands, with here and there a tower standing up or a solitary sea-mark, or a hamlet of clustered houses by the water's edge, while the water between grew paler and stiller, reflecting the wan green of the sky. ❋ Arthur Christopher Benson (1893)
He could give Mr. Ricardo as good a sea-mark as anybody need wish for. ❋ Joseph Conrad (1890)
On Oct. 24, 1769, he passed into his grounds, and walked along the shore within the sea-mark, looking for a plover. ❋ Boswell, James, 1740-1795 (1887)
It is said that sharks will pick a white man out of a crowd of dark ones in the sea; not that he is a more tempting and toothsome morsel -- drenched with nicotine, he may indeed be less appetizing than his dark-skinned, fruit-fed fellow, -- but his silvery skin is a good sea-mark, as the shark has often confirmed. ❋ Charles Warren Stoddard (1876)
Still the tide grows, and the sea-mark still below it ❋ Algernon Charles Swinburne (1873)
