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Example sentences for "gulph"

Lexicographically close words:
gulling; gulls; gully; gulp; gulped; gulphs; gulping; gulps; guls; gum
  1. If my other children grow up to doubt as you doubt, they may wander away on the mountains of error or the glaciers of vice, and fall into some awful gulph and be lost forever.

  2. It was called the Gallery of Uri, and along it a single traveller could creep, if he had the nerve, in the midst of the roar and the spray of the torrent, and with an hungry gulph yawning wide below him.

  3. Thus far my uncle Toby went on warily, and kept within his depth, leaving Mrs. Wadman to sail upon the gulph as she pleased.

  4. Proudhon; they were in a cavern with a gulph at the bottom of it, and Proudhon had lighted a torch to show them where the gulph was.

  5. The first that attempted to enter the streight (In anno one thousand six hundred and eight) Was Hudson (the same that we mentioned before, Who was lost in the gulph that he went to explore.

  6. He wished the next billow would gulph their frail boat; alas!

  7. Winds are not so constant, either in strength or point in the Gulph of Bengall, as they are in the Indian-Sea, where a certain and steady Gale scarce ever fails.

  8. But these pearls are not so orient [are not so round or of so fine a water] as those of Bahrain in the gulph of Persia.

  9. On a gulph in the Ionian Sea, called Catana, stood a city of the same name; it was one of the richest and most powerful cities in the island.

  10. In this manner they arrived at the Gulph of Syrtis, in the Mediterranean.

  11. Account of Prince of Wales Island, in the Gulph of St. Lawrence.

  12. He states that, at the entrance of the Elanitic Gulph there are three islands, one of which is dedicated to Isis: he describes them as, "covering several harbours on the Arabian shore.

  13. In 1502, he made a fourth and last voyage, in which he explored some part of the shores of the Gulph of Mexico.

  14. This island and city were situated in a gulph of the same name, between the straits of Gibraltar and the river Boetis; and, from the remotest period of which we possess any records, was resorted to by foreigners for the purposes of commerce.

  15. For some time after the discovery of America it was supposed to be part of India: and hence, the name of the West Indies, still retained by the islands in the Gulph of Mexico, was given to all those countries.

  16. The trade of Bengal may be divided into four branches: to Coromandel and Ceylon, the Malabar coast, Gulph of Persia and Arabia, the Malay archipelago and China and Europe.

  17. Stameo is situated in the Gulph of Finland.

  18. The gulph of Carybdis, which we approached, seemed whirled round in such a manner, as to form a vast hollow, verging to a point in the centre.

  19. In two minutes' time, the town of Port Royal was destroyed, and the houses sunk in a gulph forty fathoms deep.

  20. This extensive county lies along the Gulph of Saint Lawrence having a great extent of sea-coast.

  21. Joins Westmorland on the southward, and is bounded eastwardly by the Gulph of Saint Lawrence, and Bay of Chaleur.

  22. Indians who inhabited the coasts on the Gulph of Saint Lawrence and the rivers that fall into the same.

  23. He therefore clung to this wretched life, as to the edge of a precipice that beetled over the gulph of perdition.

  24. The Rio Colorado is to the great Gulph of California what the Mississippi is to the Gulph of Mexico, and is navigable for ships of considerable burden, to opposite the upper parts of the province of Senora.

  25. Pike, on the Interior Provinces of New Spain, from Louisiana to the Vice Royalty, and between the Pacific Ocean, Gulph of California and the Atlantic Ocean or Gulph of Mexico.

  26. Between Cape Breton and Newfoundland is a very broad Strait, by which we enter a small mediterranean, called the Gulph of St. Lawrence.

  27. In the Gulph of Bengal, the south wind prevails after the 20th of April, before which time the south-west or north-west winds are predominant.

  28. In the Manilla straits, and in all the channels which divide the Maldivian islands, the sea flows from east to west, as well as in the Gulph of Mexico, between Cuba and Jucatan.

  29. In the gulph of Paria this motion is so violent that the strait is called the Dragon's Mouth.

  30. The Red Sea does not receive any river whose motion might oppose the tides, whereas the Persian Gulph receives three very considerable ones in its most projecting extremity.

  31. Jean concludes, that the name of the Red Sea was affixed to the Arabian Gulph in preference to the Green or White.

  32. Near Sumatra there are rapid currents, which flow from south to north, and which probably formed the gulph at Malacca.

  33. Indeed this custom of piercing the nose, in order to embellish it with rings and other trinkets, has extended much farther than the gulph of Persia.

  34. I am fully persuaded there are more men in the city of Paris, than there are savages in north America, from the gulph of Mexico to the furthest extremity north, an extent of ground larger than all Europe.

  35. Girls in several parts of Arabia, towards the Gulph of Persia and the Red Sea, are equally subjected to this operation as boys.

  36. The nearer it approaches the gulph of Mexico, the less is the flood.

  37. Southward is a continued lake, intermixed with swamps, which terminate at last in the gulph of Mexico.

  38. They are in great numbers, and carry its waters to the gulph of Mexico.

  39. Unhappy Mr Arnold, into what a gulph didst thou unwarily plunge thyself!

  40. There is a wide gulph fixed between Mr Faulkland and me.

  41. We now began to see some of that sea-plant, which is commonly called gulph-weed, from a supposition that it comes from the Gulph of Florida.

  42. Mr Dalrymple in his chart, in which is the gulph of St Sebastian.

  43. The Baltic, the Gulph of St Laurence, the Straits of Belle-Isle, and many other equally large seas, are frequently frozen over in winter.

  44. I looked, and seeing the gulph of Intemperance before me, started and awaked.

  45. The coming summer was the extreme end of our vista; and, when we arrived there, instead of a continuation of the long road, a gulph yawned, into which we must of force be precipitated.

  46. But an earthquake had changed the scene--under our very feet the earth yawned--deep and precipitous the gulph below opened to receive us, while the hours charioted us towards the chasm.

  47. The scenes that followed, convinced her that she had not yet fathomed the obscure gulph into which she had plunged.

  48. I next dragged the stones over the entrance of the tomb, and closed the gulph that contained the life of my life.

  49. Cortez wished to sail around the Bay of Honduras, the Point of Yucatan, and thence into the Gulph of Mexico,--and inquired if there were descriptions of those coasts.

  50. The most masterly is that of Curtius on horseback, leaping into the gulph or opening of the earth, which is said to have closed on receiving this sacrifice.

  51. A Most immense Cod Fishery can be established in the River and Gulph of St Lawrence.

  52. A rich tract of country on the South Side of the Gulph will be settled and improved, and a port or ports furnished with every material requisite to repair ships.


  53. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "gulph" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.