ocean-stream

The ocean-stream could never be so wondrous deep or wide that ever my heart would doubt, but I would go even unto the bottom of the sea, if I might work the will of

Codex Junius 11 Unknown

Then when the ocean-stream ye with your arms deck'd,

The Tale of Beowulf Sometime King of the Folk of the Weder Geats Anonymous

Then ye two rowed on the sea, where with your arms [outspread] ye covered the ocean-stream, measured the sea-ways, churned up [the water] with your hands, glided over the deep; the sea was tossing with waves, the icy wintry sea.

The Translations of Beowulf A Critical Bibliography Chauncey Brewster Tinker 1919

Such a church would embrace all others as the ocean-stream of the ancients encompassed and fed every sea.

The Complete Works of Brann the Iconoclast, Volume 1. 1898

Over ocean-stream went the brave youths and soon saw the shores of the

Northland Heroes Florence Holbrook 1896

Created hugest that swim the ocean-stream, the picture that follows of the Norse-pilot mooring his boat under the lee of the monster is completed in a line that attunes the mind once more to all the pathos and gloom of those infernal deeps: while night

Style Walter Alexander Raleigh 1891

"Created hugest that swim th 'ocean-stream," just as he wrote (if we may trust Mr. Masson's facsimile) "Thus sang the uncouth swain to th 'oaks and rills,"

Among My Books Second Series James Russell Lowell 1855

With emotions we can not express, we gazed upon this ocean-stream.

The Andes and the Amazon Across the Continent of South America James Orton 1853

We now felt as if we were fairly launched on the ocean-stream of our voyage, and were pleased to find that our boat would float on Merrimack water.

A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers 1849

There may be several causes in operation to form this ocean-stream, though up to this moment learned men have been unable to decide what they are.

A Voyage round the World A book for boys William Henry Giles Kingston 1847