So many lives lost to the cruel sea.

O give me back my little child, or let me lie beside him in the bosom of the cruel sea.

The southern sun flickers over this urn; we pust off into the tide of die violent and cruel sea.

There were no merchant marines in safe areas; all were at risk in the cruel sea of the early 1940's.

Mother Carey is a supernatural figure personifying the cruel and threatening sea in the imagination of 19th-century English-speaking sailors.

Are you thinking of the cruel sea, papa?

Bond's eyes narrowed and his breath became calmer as he watched the cruel sea for its decision.

His incoherent prayers had been answered: he'd survived the cruel seas; the smuggler's vessel had reached its port.

I am instantly off to Troicinet, despite my dread of every wave of the cruel black sea!

'I love you too, Eloise,' his voice, hoarse with passion, rose above the deafening crescendo of the cruel sea below.