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  • Therefore we shall land upon the great island in the center of the yellow sea.

    The Lani People 1951

  • The colouring of the Steppe changes as if by magic, and only the silvery plumes of the _kovyl_ (_Stipa pennata_) wave under the wind, giving the Steppe the aspect of a bright, yellow sea.

    Russia As Seen and Described by Famous Writers Various

  • Then the sail flapped and filled, and off they went over the yellow sea.

    Eyebright A Story Susan Coolidge 1870

  • Time and again, he managed to wriggle free in a surge of speed and a twinkling of toes: Moses parting the yellow sea.

    Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011

  • The BBC's Korea correspondent John Sudworth says the silver-grey deck and gun turrets are once again visible above the waters of the yellow sea, as the stern of the warship is winched to the surface by a giant floating crane.

    BBC News | News Front Page | World Edition 2010

  • If fracing causes earthquakes then their nuke testing might push the whole country into the yellow sea.

    Yahoo! Buzz US: Top Stories 2009

  • The family went back and back, he said, far into the dim past, beyond the Normans, beyond the Saxons, far into the Roman days, and for many hundred years they had been petty kings, with a strong fortress high up on the hill, in the heart of the forest; and even now the great mounds remained, whence one could look through the trees towards the mountain on one side and across the yellow sea on the other.

    The House of Souls Arthur Machen 1905

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