cross-sea

It is the world's longest cross-sea bridge, breaking the record previously held by the Lake Pontchartrain Causeway in Louisiana.

Asia in Pictures 2011

It is the world's longest cross-sea bridge, breaking the record previously held by the Lake Pontchartrain Causeway in Louisiana.

Photos of the Day: June 30 2011

We drifted in upon the land in the chill light of a stormy dawn across a heartless cross-sea mountain high.

Chapter 15 2010

When at last the dawn came on the morning of May 10 there was practically no wind, but a high cross-sea was running.

The Greatest Survival Stories Ever Told Underwood, Lamar 2001

A great cross-sea was running, and the wind simply shrieked as it tore the tops off the waves and converted the whole seascape into a haze of driving spray.

The Greatest Survival Stories Ever Told Underwood, Lamar 2001

The sky was overcast and occasional snow-squalls added to the discomfort produced by a tremendous cross-sea -- the worst, I thought, that we had experienced.

The Greatest Survival Stories Ever Told Underwood, Lamar 2001

So down the village on all fours, groaning like a Dutch brig in a cross-sea, went our Albert Edward.

Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, May 23, 1917 Various

We reached the northern point of Luzon without mishap, and stood away with a heavy cross-sea for Hong Kong, arriving on January 4th, 1879.

In Eastern Seas Or, the Commission of H.M.S. 'Iron Duke,' flag-ship in China, 1878-83 J. J. Smith

Slices of a Chilean tuber that once saved a cross-sea nation from famine.

Games For All Occasions Mary E. Blain

Suddenly the wind began to blow strongly upon the starboard quarter, stirring up a cross-sea which tossed the great ship like a toy.

New National Fourth Reader J. Marshall Hawkes