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Dead Sea

noun

A saltwater lake on the border between Israel and Jordan; its surface in 1292 feet below sea level.

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"Dead sea" Quotes from Famous Books

... at it," said Mrs. Evelyn, (Fleda knew with quivering lips,)—"but it seems to me I might as well try to find the Dead Sea!" ...

— Queechy • Susan Warner

... as they came up, but to no purpose. Armida reconciled them all in appearance, by feigning to be devoted to each in secret; and thus she rode on with them many a mile, till she came to a castle on the Dead Sea, where she was accustomed ...

— Stories from the Italian Poets: With Lives of the Writers, Vol. 2 • Leigh Hunt

... Great Relief. Merrily they filled the little boats and sailed down Echo River, where abound the eyeless fish; crossed Lake Lethe, where all care is said to be left behind; passed the huge Granite Coffin; stood wondering before the Great Eastern; shuddered beside the Dead Sea and the Bottomless Pit; climbed Martha's Vineyard, where huge bunches of grapes in stone looked as natural as life; took lunch in Washington Hall; revelled in the snow-white crystals of Siliman's Avenue; crossed the Rocky Mountains to Traveller's Rest, and there wrote their names ...

— Idle Hour Stories • Eugenia Dunlap Potts

... with motherly solicitude, and a dumb brute which, as I later came to know, held in its poor ugly carcass more love, more loyalty, more gratitude than could have been found in the entire five million green Martians who rove the deserted cities and dead sea bottoms of Mars. ...

— A Princess of Mars • Edgar Rice Burroughs

... bit of comfort in this strangely-impressive place. We entered a little boat waiting to take us across the Salz Sea to the opposite shore. There was not a sound, save the dipping of the oar. We tasted the black water. The Dead Sea cannot be salter. We were hushed and oppressed, as if each felt the weight of the great ...

— Lippincott's Magazine, October 1885 • Various

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