How To Use South sea In A Sentence
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One of the new things to look out for will be South Sea Pearls, a rare variety which is very different from the cultured or natural pearls commonly seen.
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The soft-focus prose of the travel writer ( "Wild fruits hang from the branches, waiting to be plucked") transports us to a lush South Sea island where a "modern day Robinson Crusoe" lives in idyllic retirement.
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The idiot in the unbecoming South Sea island shirt spilled the straightforward chance at immortality and the England opener's confidence swelled almost visibly.
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These are technology-driven bubbles, not fad-fueled manias like tulips, or fraud like the South Sea scam.
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He had arranged for fraudulent South Sea shares to be given to the king, and had overseen the distribution of douceurs in Parliament to help things along.
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Indian / South Sea / Polynesian / Tahiti / Hawaii arrowroots are from Tacca leontopetaloides (or, possibly, close relations) One Hawaiian name is pi (not the same as the better-known poi, which is a starch made from taro).
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Yet some men _had_ "chaffed" him, and found out to their cost that they had picked upon the wrong sort of man; for if he was slow with his tongue he was quick with his hands, and knew how to use them in a manner which had given intense pleasure to numerous gentry who, in South Sea ports, delight to witness a "mill" in default of being able to take part in it themselves.
Tessa 1901
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South Sea itself may face disciplinary action by the stock exchange for making inconsistent statements during the share price dive.
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During the late 1860s and early 1870s, "recruiters" ranged the South Seas in search of kanakas to work Queensland sugar and cotton plantations.
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South Sea Islanders were very important in early Protestant missionary activity and most were accompanied by their wives.
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The shoaly, azure, clear ocean and the white beach may remind you of an island in the South Seas.
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The next instant there stepped out of the opening a tall, shock-haired young man, naked, except for some tatters of an undershirt and a piece of old canvas wound about his hips after the fashion of a South Sea _pareu_.
Where the Sun Swings North
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In 1891, broke and despairing of recognition as an artist, Gauguin sailed for the South Seas, seeking liberation, as he famously said, "from everything that is artificial and conventional.
Tate Modern Exhibition Makes a Fresh Case for Gauguin
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He could neither read nor write, had scarcely ever been outside the parish, and then only in a shandrydan on a Club treat, and he knew no more of the world than the native of a small South Sea Island.
Tatterdemalion
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Samoa from the South Seas caused the biggest cheer of the day when they outgunned Emirates Trophy holders and world champions, New Zealand.
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South Sea, but it is usually called the Pacific Ocean, the name given it afterward.
Introductory American History
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He dreamed of traveling to remote South Sea Islands.
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Prosaic and uneventful to the last degree was our passage, the only incident worth recording being our "gamming" of the PASSAMAQUODDY, of Martha's Vineyard, South Sea whaler; eighteen months out, with one thousand barrels of sperm oil on board.
The Cruise of the Cachalot Round the World After Sperm Whales
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It was the island of Fitu-Iva — the last independent Polynesian stronghold in the South Seas.
THE FEATHERS OF THE SUN
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Their only means of subsistence appear to be in theft, and in this they are said to outrival even the nimble-fingered islanders of the South Seas.
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[26] The South Sea, which we call the Pacific Ocean, which washed the eastern shores of India and China, was what most of the early European Explorers set out to find.
Colonial Children
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Their cookery is exactly of the same sort with that already described in the accounts that have been published of the other South Sea islands; and though Captain Cook complains of the sourness of their tarrow puddings, yet, in justice to the many excellent meals they afforded us in Karakakooa
A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Volume 17 Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time
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While this DVD package would certainly be the answer to a shipwrecked castaways daily doldrums, most landlubbers will have difficulty finding their South Sea legs.
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He went to the province of Cuzcatan, in which, or not far distant, there is the town of San Salvador, which is a most delightful place extending all along the coast of the South Sea from forty to fifty leagues: and the town of Cuzcatan, which was the capital of the province, gave him the kindest of welcomes, sending him more than twenty or thirty Indians loaded with fowls and other provisions.
Bartholomew de Las Casas; his life, apostolate, and writings
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In 1924 the whare came back to New Zealand for the South Seas exhibition in Dunedin, and the Crown agreed to allow the university museum in Otago to exhibit the meeting house on permanent loan.
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By the mid-19th century, the beach had become an aspirational destination, aided by Byron and Shelley and aristocratic tourists to the Mediterranean and colonists in the South Seas.
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On the other hand, no one that stands in finicky dread of it and similar diseases can afford to travel in the South Seas.
Chapter 12
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There is a good restaurant at the South Sea Hotel serving a mixed menu including sea food.
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Hosier's squadron had legal reason to be in the Caribbean; his ships were escorting the English South Sea Company's vessel licensed to trade at the Portobelo fair under a provision of the Treaty of Utrecht.
The Door of the Seas and Key to the Universe: Indian Politics and Imperial Rivalry in the Dari
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He, it transpires, was formerly the friend of the composer's copyist, who in turn discovered the journal describing the South Sea islanders while working for the composer.
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South Sea islands, has learned to dulcify the fecula, by pressing and separating it from its juice.
Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 2
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More important, he heard America singing, and talking, even when he was glamorously expatriated in Venetian palaces, Riviera chateaux, and South Seas luxury hideaways.
One Swell Party
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There is not a cannibal in the South Sea Islands, '' he wrote, "" whose indignation would not arise and overboil at the recital of that which has been done, which has too late been examined, but which remains unavenged. ''
Cheers And Jeers
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However, he was not at first as interested in the Fine Arts of painting and drawing as he was with the exotic primitive arts that were being collected from South Sea Islands at that time.
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But do you realize that I would be looked upon as the most foolish jackanapes in the South Seas if I took a young girl like you in with me here on Berande?" he asked.
Chapter 13
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Raffia, a native of the South Sea Islands and of Madagascar, is the inner bark of the raphia palm, pulled off, torn into narrow strips, dried in the sun, and bound into bunches, which are plaited together and stored ready for use or shipping.
Construction Work for Rural and Elementary Schools
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The South Sea Company had been formed under a Tory administration in 1710.
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Here, with the larks, are several curious birds, including the crossbeaks of Europe, the grosbeak of the South Sea Islands, the plant cutters of South America, and the colies of India and the Cape, that sleep in companies each suspended by one foot.
How to See the British Museum in Four Visits
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He dreamed of traveling to the remote South Sea Islands.
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Money could be made out of them, and he would wait and take a sackful of it into the South Seas.
Chapter 42
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French painter, sculptor, and printmaker; born in Paris, died in self-imposed exile in the South Seas.
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They talk the argot of evolution, while they no more understand the essence and the import of evolution than does a South Sea Islander or Sir Oliver Lodge understand the noumena of radioactivity.
The Other Animals
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At sea, the boats of a South Sea-man (generally four in number, spare ones omitted,) are suspended by tackles, hooked above, to curved timbers called "davits," vertically fixed to the ship's sides.
Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. I (of 2)
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Walpole became prime minister in 1722 in the wake of the South Sea Bubble scandal.
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They had just heard some natives crying out that a vast shoal of _tau tau_ -- a large salmonlike fish, greatly prized throughout the South Seas -- had made their appearance, and already some canoes were being got ready.
The Flemmings And "Flash Harry" Of Savait From "The Strange Adventure Of James Shervinton and Other Stories" - 1902
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She took a sabbatical and has continued with her psychological researches while sailing the South Seas.
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This comic operetta tells the story of a South Sea Island despot who wishes to anglicise his island by importing all things English.
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Brooke's poems were published in 1911, and after a year wandering in the North America and the South Seas, he was commissioned into the Royal Navy.
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There was formerly a tribe of South Sea islanders who, until discovered by explorers, had never made the connection between sexual congress and pregnancy.
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He signed a five-year contract with an English company indenturing himself for labor in the South Seas at fifty cents a day.
“Day had broken cold and gray, exceedingly cold and gray, . . . .”
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Back in the South Sea in Tahiti and from 1901 on the Marquesas Islands, Gauguin produced some thirty more woodcuts - mostly monotypes.
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In Bird of Paradise, McCrea plays Johnny, a happy-go-lucky guy out yachting with his friends in the South Seas.
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The word originated in Latin as lacuna, then later appears in Venice as laguna, transforms to lagune in French, then appears, anglicized as lagoon for the first time in 1769 to refer to the lake-like stretch of water enclosed in a South Seas atoll.
The Mother of All Lagoons
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JOEY CUMMINGS, GENERAL MANAGER, SOUTH SEAS BROADCASTING: I was on the second floor of an office building called Pago Plaza, which is deep in the harbor of Tutuila, which is the main island of American Samoa.
CNN Transcript Sep 30, 2009
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As it progresses the music evokes images of South Sea islands in balmy high summer.
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We thought their language more harsh than that of the islanders in the South Sea, and they were continually repeating the word _chercau_, which we imagined to be a term expressing admiration, by the manner in which it was uttered: They also cried out, when they saw any thing new, _Cher, tut, tut, tut, tut_! which probably had a similar signification.
A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 13
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There was a club in those days in Papeete, where the pearlers, traders, captains, and South Sea adventurers foregathered.
THE HEATHEN
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In the South Seas the natives use it as a wood file in smoothing down canoes and paddles.
MAUKI
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There was a club in those days in Papeete, where the pearlers, traders, captains, and riffraff of South Sea adventurers forgathered.
THE HEATHEN
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The savage of America, like the savage of the South Sea islands, has learned to dulcify the fecula, by pressing and separating it from its juice.
Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America
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For example, Fanny’s defloration is pretty grisly (like all other deflorations in the book, the pain the women experience is not glossed over, nor does it disappear after their first time), and then Fanny is raped by a gentleman while she is very depressed over miscarrying due to the shock of her true love being sent to the South Seas.
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This march to the south seared his soul.
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As the plantations in Queensland increased, they required more labourers than were willing to leave their homes in the South Sea Islands; and, as the captains of vessels were paid by the planters a certain sum of money for every "Kanaka" they brought over, there was a strong temptation to carry off the natives by force, when, by other means, a sufficient number could not be obtained.
History of Australia and New Zealand From 1606 to 1890
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Eliot deliberately presents his South Sea life in crude terms.
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They learn from the paper that the man Matt killed had robbed his partner, had a half million in jewels, including the famous Haythorne pearl necklace, and was set to sail for the South Seas on the Sajoda when Matt robbed and killed him.
“Malicious chance was having its laugh at him.”
