I belonged on the carrier, at sea, surrounded by a clean expanse of water.

You live out there in the middle of that cold sea surrounded by herring.

The eventual result was a sea surrounded by sheer cliffs many miles high, surrounding in turn a long, narrow island.

You don't know what it's like to be alone in the sea, surrounded by nothing but ice, great huge pieces like frozen cities.

Now it was a circular sea, surrounded on all sides by land.

He found himself, as he recalled later, "hurt and in the sea surrounded by wreckage."

In a sea of blue darkness, surrounded on every side with a civilization they neither knew nor understood, their living hearts met and married.

It was like a ship going down in a stormy sea, surrounded by St Elmo's fire.

Here lay a lake like a great dark sapphire, six thousand feet above the sea, surrounded by snow-covered mountains.

It is at the head of a valley opening south to the sea, surrounded by a ditch over 8m wide and at present 1.8m deep.