Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A plain produced by the erosive action of waves, currents, tides, etc.; a plain of marine denudation.
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Examples
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Southward the sea-plain and the sea standing up in a belt of light against the sky, and northward all the weald.
Hills and the Sea Hilaire Belloc 1911
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The waggons creaked and jolted across the rough veldt, the gun harness jingled, the horses snorted out the cold air, the Kaffirs cried to their beasts; and in this discordant chorus we stretched out across the sea-plain while the east kindled and glowed.
The Relief of Mafeking How it Was Accomplished by Mahon's Flying Column; with an Account of Some Earlier Episodes in the Boer War of 1899-1900 Filson Young 1907
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Summer was back again to-day; our sea-plain was calm, shimmering in the haze; and only the buzz of an insect disturbed the peace of the little group on the brown hill.
The Relief of Mafeking How it Was Accomplished by Mahon's Flying Column; with an Account of Some Earlier Episodes in the Boer War of 1899-1900 Filson Young 1907
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His desire to go to his "mother's land" instead of obeying his father and ruling the "sea-plain" (unabara) -- an appellation believed by some learned commentators to apply to
A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era Dairoku Kikuchi 1886
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The wide hills o'er the sea-plain for them have no pleasure,
Poems By the Way William Morris 1865
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As fresh as it furrows the sea-plain or bows the acres 'face.
The Story of Sigurd the Volsung William Morris 1865
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As fresh as it furrows the sea-plain or bows the acres 'face.
The Story of Sigurd the Volsung and the Fall of the Niblungs William Morris 1865
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So they quartered the sea-plain, as the kestrel doth the water-meadows, till the night fell on them, and was cloudy, though whiles the wading moon shone out; and they had seen nothing, neither sail nor ship, nor aught else on the barren brine, save the washing of waves and the hovering of sea-fowl.
The Story of the Glittering Plain; or, the land of Living Men William Morris 1865
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As the earliest sun's uprising o'er the sea-plain draws a path
The Story of Sigurd the Volsung and the Fall of the Niblungs William Morris 1865
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O wasters of the sea-plain, now labour ye no more!
The Story of Sigurd the Volsung and the Fall of the Niblungs William Morris 1865
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