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This old church is very large, and has a high spire, which is a useful sea-mark.
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This old church is very large, and has a high spire, which is a useful sea-mark.
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Lansallos, one of the mother-parishes of Polperro, has a finely placed church, useful as a sea-mark.
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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 ....
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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.
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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.
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It was their last beacon, the farthest sea-mark of the Old World.
Good Stories for Holidays Frances Jenkins Olcott 1917
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It was their last beacon, the farthest sea-mark of the Old World.
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The pedestrian should proceed by way of Lansallos, where the church in the Perpendicular style forms a conspicuous sea-mark.
The Cornish Riviera Sidney Heath 1907
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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.
The Cornish Riviera Sidney Heath 1907
Gammerstang commented on the word sea-mark
A sea mark, also seamark and navigation mark, is a form of aid to navigation and pilotage aid which identifies the approximate position of a maritime channel, hazard and administrative area to allow boats, ships and seaplanes to navigate safely.
There are three types of sea mark: beacons (fixed to the seabed or on shore), buoys (consisting of a floating object that is usually anchored to a specific location on the bottom of the sea or to a submerged object) and a type of cairn built on a submerged rock/object, especially in calmer waters.
November 3, 2017