Before I could have drawn breath, it had tumbled over the side and back into the oily sea.

He looked up at the cliffs; gulls swooped down from them: and floated on the oily sea.

His house was a kind of island for him in the oily sea of the Washington suburbs.

Stared at the somewhat darker oily grey sea.

It'll take more than a tender touch to help the victims of the oily sea.

Dawn glittered on the oily sea, purging his thoughts.

There was nothing different, just the same dense forest, the oily sea.

The submarine lay inert on the oily sea.

Melissa was gone, but the rocky landscape at the foot of the cliff seemed to crawl and surge below him like an oily sea.

She glimpsed a flat horizon, a black, oily sea, forest-covered hills.