I heard William tell of it and I listened as I listened to his tales of sea dragons that swallow ships and women with the tails of fish instead of legs.

Oceans that swallow ships.

The Greek historian Pytheas described it more than two thousand years ago as swallowing ships and throwing them up again.

Singularities to swallow ships.

SEVEN AFTER I had swallowed enough saltwater to founder a dozen ships, I felt hands touching me.

It had a mouth-like opening on the front that could swallow ships, as seen in the episode "Children of Auron" when Servalan captured an Auronar pilot.

It swallows men and ships, and whales too, and anything else around.

Passing the violent trenches that still shudered from con to con, causing the seas to rear up, swallowing ships or islands, Iying low on their basalt foundations.

In the middle of the fight between Humanity and the aliens, a worm hole suddenly opened and swallowed several Human ships.

The currents at the mouth of the Columbia River swallow ships, sailors and time itself in regular gulps.