Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The border or shore of the sea.

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Examples

  • I sing of the moon in this shadow, here on this sea-marge

    "Noh", or, Accomplishment 1916

  • She turned to flee; but she had gone too far now to retreat; hastily dipping her head three times, she hurried out to the sea-marge, and looking through her dripping locks at the magic mirror, pronounced the incantation --

    Westward Ho!, or, the voyages and adventures of Sir Amyas Leigh, Knight, of Burrough, in the county of Devon, in the reign of her most glorious majesty Queen Elizabeth Charles Kingsley 1847

  • I owe to no season of the general period such a preserved sense of innumerable unaccompanied walks -- at the reason of which luxury of freedom I have glanced; which as often as not were through the steep and low-browed and brightly-daubed _ruelles_ of the fishing-town and either across and along the level sea-marge and sustained cliff beyond; this latter the site of the first Napoleon's so tremendously mustered camp of invasion, with a monument as futile, by my remembrance, as that enterprise itself had proved, to give it all the special accent I could ask for.

    A Small Boy and Others Henry James 1879

  • She turned to flee; but she had gone too far now to retreat; hastily dipping her head three times, she hurried out to the sea-marge, and looking through her dripping locks at the magic mirror, pronounced the incantation — “A maiden pure, here I stand,

    Westward Ho! 2007

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