Gulf
A gulf or bay is a part of a lake or ocean that extends so that it is surrounded by land on three sides.Well-known bays and gulfs (in alphabetic order) include:
A couple of non-gulfs (actually straits) are:
See also Physical geography
I will fight to the
to Dover, it is all over with those tyrants of the seas. Besides,
of France is intolerable, the sooner the better. I am young. The
had rather settle the matter at once. They shall not have Malta."
Still Napoleon assented to the proposal for negotiating with the
"Let them obtain a port to put into," said he. "To that I have no
in that sea, one at the entrance, and one in the middle." To this
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had so happened that the emperor had just offered his mediation,
government also declined, upon the plea that it did not think that
The English embassador now received instructions to demand that
by way of compensation, would recognize the Italian republic. The
were not accepted within seven days. To this proposition France
left France. Immediately the English fleet commenced its attack
world was again deluged in war.
France has recorded her past history and her present condition, in
inscribed, in letters more legible than the hieroglyphics of Egypt,
voluptuousness and pride, and of popular servility and oppression.
upon which have been lavished the wealth of princes and the toil
and gilded ceilings and damask tapestry, and all the appliances.
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