transmarine

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Wonders were told concerning pillars inlaid with bronze, amber, ivory, mother of pearl, and transmarine tortoise-shells.

From Quo Vadis: a narrative of the time of Nero by Curtin, Jeremiah

Thus, it is evident that this new and as yet not fully established agent of international communication, so far from obviating our rapid transmarine service, will but the more effectually necessitate it.

From Ocean Steam Navigation and the Ocean Post by Rainey, Thomas

There are many instances of the desirableness and the necessity of the transmarine steam post on important lines of foreign communication where we have a large trade, and yet no postal means of conducting it.

From Ocean Steam Navigation and the Ocean Post by Rainey, Thomas

Formerly, the monastic funds were drawn upon to excess in defraying the costs of a transmarine visitation.

From The Uncollected Writings of Thomas de Quincey—Vol. 1 With a Preface and Annotations by James Hogg by Hogg, James

He was the first to carry out on a large scale those plans of transmarine colonization whose inception was due to the Gracchi.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary" by Various