Sentence examples for sea road from inspiring English sources

The approach to Perama along the sea road reveals ranks of red-daubed political slogans.

But he is right that the sea road is a long-neglected path to his country's prosperity.

The feeling was on him now as he drove the sea road on this Sunday of mist and fear.

Tōkaidō, ( Japanese: "Eastern Sea Road", ) historic road that connected Ōsaka and Kyōto with Edo (now Tokyo) in Japan.

On the afternoon I am speaking of I was driving into Dublin along the sea road from Howth.

But the traveler who wishes to approach or escape La Gomera takes the sea road, as Columbus did.

The second thing to know about sea roads is that they are not arbitrary.

The discovery of sea roads necessitated a radical re-imagining of the history of Europe.

Sea roads are determined by the shape of the coastline (they bend outwards to avoid headlands, they dip toward significant ports, archipelagos, and skerry guards) as well as by marine phenomena.

In Old English the hwael-weg (the whale's way), the swan-rad (the swan's way); in Norse the veger; in Gaelic rathad mara or astar mara; in English the ocean roads, the sea lanes... Sea roads are dissolving paths whose passage leaves no trace beyond a wake, a brief turbulence astern.

They survive as convention, tradition, as a sequence of coordinates, as a series of waymarks, as dotted lines on charts, and as stories and songs... What you should first realize, to understand the sea roads, is how close the ocean brings far-apart places... in the pre-modern world, the boat was the fastest means of long-distance travel..