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Definition of Gulphs
1. gulph [n] - See also: gulph
Lexicographical Neighbors of Gulphs
Literary usage of Gulphs
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Lusiad: Or, The Discovery of India: an Epic Poem by Luís de Camões, William Julius Mickle (1809)
"... Oceans unknown and gulphs untry'd to plough: Then turning to the ships their
sparkling eyes, With joy they heard the breathing winds arise; ..."
2. A Pilgrimage to the Holy Land by Alphonse de Lamartine (1838)
"Ye temples, which for your foundations rent The marble strength of mountains like
a tree ; gulphs where whole rivers roll ;—ye columns high, ..."
3. Geological Travels by Jean André de LUC (1811)
"... gravel formed at the entrance of so many gulphs have resulted from submarine
ledges, consisting of parts of the strata which remained higher than those ..."
4. The Philosophical Transactions ... Abridged by Royal Society (Great Britain), John Lowthorp, Henry Jones, Andrew Reid, John Gray, John Eames, John Martyn (1722)
"So this Mafs of the Mountain in its fettling all at once upon the Water of the
gulphs or ... gulphs ..."
5. 'It is I'; or, The voice of Jesus in the storm by Christopher Newman Hall, Newman Hall (1849)
"... and the tempest howls, and the thunder rattles, and' the waters rage, and
hideous gulphs yawn as' if to swallow up the despairing disciple,— VII! ..."
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