"Sea-gait" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... forms the sea-gate of Hinomisaki is of white granite, and severely beautiful. Through it we pass up the main street of the village—surprisingly wide for about a thousand yards, after which it narrows into a common highway which slopes ...
— Glimpses of an Unfamiliar Japan - First Series • Lafcadio Hearn
... from Lewes stands the rather mean port of Newhaven. After many years of neglect and decay this Elizabethan sea-gate is once more of great importance in continental traffic. Much money and skill were expended during the latter half of the nineteenth century in improving the harbour and building a breakwater and new quays. Louis Philippe landed ...
— Seaward Sussex - The South Downs from End to End • Edric Holmes
... OR GAIT. A long rolling swell: when two ships are thrown aboard one another by its means, they are said to be in a sea-gate. ...
— The Sailor's Word-Book • William Henry Smyth |
