a well known Engine us’d both on Land and at Sea
to land. At sea, even then 1858 Lay the Land, to lay the land, at sea, signifies to sail out of sight of land. 1707 they appear as bluffs of land at sea 1815 distant sails or the first loom of the land. At sea there is nothing to be seen close by 1896 Sea, see Say. 1904 the resemblance of an head land at sea. 1799 confined to the Land; at Sea, tho’ at ever so small a Distance, the Air is always free from the noxious Vapours, which alone occasion that Sickliness and Mortality. 1765 Tis well you are by land, at sea 1673
some — not all — of the pre-aeronautical instances of to land at sea (and those, mostly, proximity hits) encountered via the usual means. to land at sea, my method in nuce. sources —
1858 John Cassell's illustrated history of England * 1707 Thomas Blount (1618-1679 *). Glossographia Anglicana Nova: Or, A Dictionary, Interpreting Such Hard Words of Whatever Language, as are at present used in the English Tongue, with their etymologies, definitions, &c. * 1815 ex William Wordsworth, “To the Daisy” in Epitaphs and Elegiac Poems. * 1896 Sarah Orne Jewett (1849-1909 *). The Country of the Pointed Firs. * 1904 Joseph Wright (1855-1930 *), ed., English Dialect Dictionary (vol. 5 R–S) * a say being 1. A bucket; a vessel having two ears, a milk-pail; a tub. 1799 Edward King (1735?-1807 *). Munimenta antiqua: or, Observations on antient castles, vol. 1. * 1765 Thomas Whately (1726-72 *). The regulations lately made concerning the colonies and the taxes imposed upon them considered. * 1673 John Dryden (1631-1700), "Amboyna, or the Cruelties of the Dutch to the English Merchants" (III.2), in Works (1808) * on the play (1673), and on the Amboyna Massacre (1623)
epigram — definition of Pump, ex Edward Phillips (1630-96 *). The New World of English Words (third edn, 1720) *
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