Great Belt

At a quarter past the moorings were loosed and the throbbing steamer pursued her way over the dark waters of the Great Belt.

Journey to the Interior of the Earth 2003

The eastern one, separating it from Sweden, is called the Sound, that to the west is known as the Great Belt; each, from the military point of view, possessed its particular advantages and particular drawbacks.

The Life of Nelson Mahan, A. T. 1897

This accentuates once more the supreme importance to us of keeping open, at all costs, the passage through the Sound and the Great Belt.

Germany and the Next War Friedrich von Bernhardi 1889

Copenhagen, according to this proposition of Nelson's, it was proposed in the council to go by the Great Belt.

The Life of Nelson, Volume 2 (of 2) The Embodiment of the Sea Power of Great Britain 1877

The eastern one, separating it from Sweden, is called the Sound, that to the west is known as the Great Belt; each, from the military point of view, possessed its particular advantages and particular drawbacks.

The Life of Nelson, Volume 2 (of 2) The Embodiment of the Sea Power of Great Britain 1877

At a quarter past the moorings were loosed and the throbbing steamer pursued her way over the dark waters of the Great Belt.

A Journey to the Interior of the Earth Jules Verne 1866

Holstein and Schleswig to the north of Jütland, where five hours 'steaming will give access to the Swedish coast; while an east and west line from Hjerting to Copenhagen, with two breaks at the Little Belt and the Great Belt, are also planned.

Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 455 Volume 18, New Series, September 18, 1852 Various 1841

A series of islands, with intervening straits clogged with ice, bridged by a long and circuitous way his passage across the Great Belt.

The Empire of Austria; Its Rise and Present Power 1841

I had hurried across the heath, and over Jutland's wood-girt eastern coast, and over the Island of Fünen, and now I drove over the Great Belt, groaning and sighing.

What the Moon Saw: and Other Tales Alfred Walter Bayes 1840

Sir James, in passing through the Great Belt, visited the station at the island of Spröe, and afforded protection to a numerous convoy of merchant ships passing at that time, and trading under neutral colours, under a licence from the English and the Swedish governments.

Memoirs and Correspondence of Admiral Lord de Saumarez. Vol II John Ross 1816