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Definition of South sea
1. Noun. Any sea to the south of the equator (but especially the South Pacific).
Lexicographical Neighbors of South Sea
Literary usage of South sea
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Daniel Defoe: His Life and Recently Discovered Writings: His Life and by Daniel Defoe, William Lee (1869)
"4th) a Clergyman presented an Ode to the Directors of the south sea Company, ...
Our south sea Equipages encrease every Day. The City Ladies buy south sea ..."
2. The Overland Monthly by Bret Harte (1872)
"south sea BUBBLES. An August in the highlands Is a chilly shadow of my lands ; O!
for an hour of the fervent heat That nurses the south sea Islands. ..."
3. The Cambridge Modern History by John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton Acton, Ernest Alfred Benians, Sir Adolphus William Ward, George Walter Prothero (1909)
"unfortunately, people were deceived by the arts and the rashness of the Directors,
with the extraordinary consequence that " the more the south sea Company ..."
4. The History of England by David Hume, Tobias George Smollett (1825)
"The estates of the directors of the South-sea company are confiscated—§ XXXII.
Proceedings of the commons with respect to the stock of the South-sea company ..."
5. The History of England, from the Revolution of 1688, to the Death of George by Tobias George Smollett (1825)
"Next day Walpole produced his scheme, to ingraft nine millions of south sea stock
into the bank of England, and the like sum into the East India company,-on ..."
6. Daniel Defoe: His Life, and Recently Discovered Writings ; Extending from by Lee, William, Daniel Defoe (1869)
"'Tis said the south sea Company, in the great Hurry at the Subscription last
Tuesday, took above a Million and a half more than they intended. ..."
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