The sun sailed gracefully across a sky that might have been a pale sea flecked with whitecaps.

On the screen, the star background began to ripple like a sea flecked by plankton's phosphorescence.

Carrington stared down at the dark broad seas, seas flecked with milky foam: the bows of the Ulysses were crashing down heavily, continuously.

Certainly he had no idea of how it might be accomplished, the morning after the burning of the ship, when a sea flecked with whitecaps tossed burned timbers about.

Then Clear Lake opened before them like an inland sea, flecked with little squalls and flaws of wind from the high mountains on the northern slopes of which still glistened white snow patches.

It revealed exactly the same prospect as before: the black sea, flecked with white, stretching endlessly around them.

We had stopped again and I was staring seaward, out beyond the fortress of St Felip to where the horizon lay, a dark line in a blue sea flecked with white.

In front of them was the blue sea, flecked with the white sails of ships.

At half-past nine Lockwood nudged the pilot and pointed to the sea ahead of them, now flecked with white.

Manning clung tightly to the rail, stared down at the swirl of dark sea flecked with white where the paddles strove to overcome whatever obstacle they had encountered.