Sentence examples for unknown seas from inspiring English sources

Indeed, as the old explorers needed sponsors to outfit their ships for voyages across dangerous and unknown seas, today the new explorers into the unknowns of biology require sponsors who understand the serendipity of scientific exploration, and who realize that sending multiple ships into the unknown is more likely to succeed than sending a small number of lone voyagers.

"The crew grew perceptibly nervous," he says, "not unlike what ancient mariners must have felt as they ventured into unknown seas".

Living in the age of great explorers — his assistant in the Florentine Chancery was Agostino Vespucci, cousin of Amerigo — Machiavelli saw himself as one of their company, with a mission "no less dangerous" than seeking "unknown seas and continents".

It is arguably the most audacious maritime adventure ever undertaken – a mission worthy of James Cook or Christopher Columbus to unlock the secrets of unknown seas and faraway lands.

Europeans will no longer be explorers; they will not adventure across unknown seas to steal others' treasure, they will not scale the highest mountains to plant flags, nor will they look west or east to decide what to think and how to behave internationally.

Figuring things out for yourself, forsaking authorities who tell you you're wrong, and setting sail into unknown seas?

Discovered by a dandy wanderer on the craggy rocks of some unknown sea?

A young oceanographer (Lake Bell) discovers a previously unknown sea creature and the government goes into cover-up mode.

"Youth is young, I am not old," Susan B. sings in stately, calm music; to which the imperious Webster replies with grandiose lyricism, "When the mariner has been tossed for many days in thick weather, and on an unknown sea, he naturally avails himself of the first pause in the storm".

She once wrote to Lowell: "My passion for accuracy may strike you as old-maidish – but since we do float on an unknown sea I think we should examine the other floating things that come our way very carefully; who knows what might depend on it?" Valium is the drug on which Lota overdosed.

Cartography was subject to other pressures: mapmakers would mark in Protestant regions as Catholic ones, or vice versa, as fortunes shifted or to please their clients; with navigators in mind, they might insert a hitherto unknown sea passage into an uncharted landmass.Mercator was not above this sort of thing.