Citations:Adriatic

English citations of Adriatic

• 1818 — Lord Byron, Beppo

  Her husband sail'd upon the Adriatic,
  And made some voyages, too, in other seas,

• 1822 — James Monroe, Sixth State of the Union Address

  When we see...that a civil war of the most frightful character rages from the Adriatic to the Black Sea...

• 1855-91 — Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, bk XXVI

  Year of the marriage of continents, climates and oceans!
  (No mere doge of Venice now wedding the Adriatic,)

• 1889 — Robert Louis Stevenson, The Wrong Box, ch II

  There was but one evidence of personal taste, a vizarded forage cap; from this form of headpiece, since he had fled from a dying jackal on the plains of Ephesus, and weathered a bora in the Adriatic, nothing could divorce our traveller.

• 1909 — Bram Stoker, The Lady of the Shroud

  A strange story comes from the Adriatic.

• 1914 — Saki, Cousin Teresa

  ...men and women of middle age and average education might be seen together in corners earnestly discussing, not the question whether Servia should have an outlet on the Adriatic, or the possibilities of a British success in international polo contests,

• 1915 — G. K. Chestrton, Lepanto

  They have dared the white republics up the capes of Italy,
  They have dashed the Adriatic round the Lion of the Sea,

• 1946 — Winston Churchill, Iron Curtain Speech, (5 March)

  From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent.