There's nothing here but the wine-dark sea of remorse.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2006-08-27] Reference

She cast him a glance, her violet eyes wine-dark and chill.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dragons Of A Vanished Moon]

Then she started north across the wine-dark sea toward Greece.    From Wordnik.com.  [Counting Up, Counting Down]

The rind of Barone Rosso is literally wine-dark, purple-black.    From Wordnik.com.  [Say Cheese: Love that cantina smell] Reference

Silver lightning lashed the wine-dark clouds, cracked the umber sky.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dreams of Steel]

He thought about the question as he stared out over the wine-dark sea.    From Wordnik.com.  [Shield of Thunder]

We edged our way across a mountain's face and skirted a wine-dark sea.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Guns of Avalon]

Those repetitions are formulas, like the "wine-dark sea" in The Odyssey.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2008-09-01] Reference

Below lay the wine-dark sea fringing with pale foam the sands of Kon Klayu.    From Wordnik.com.  [Where the Sun Swings North] Reference

It got right down to the very rims of those lovely wine-dark nipples of hers.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Great San Francisco Poetry Wars, 17] Reference

Artemis will see the waters boil as they bathe, wine-dark with un - feminine juices.    From Wordnik.com.  [bard Diary Entry] Reference

There was no external bleeding from the cut unless he applied pressure, then wine-dark blood seeped out.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stalin's Ghost]

Mark Rothko was found on the morning of February 25 1970, lying dead in a wine-dark sea of his own blood.    From Wordnik.com.  [February 2006] Reference

By day, the waves were too choppy to swim in, and the Mediterranean was not so much wine-dark as oil-black.    From Wordnik.com.  [‘My Father’s Tears and Other Stories’] Reference

A blistering July sun, a cloudless blue sky and the wine-dark seas without even a ripple to show for themselves.    From Wordnik.com.  [Santorini]

A clear green dusk was falling, and Helios plumed with rose-red and burning gold rode down into the wine-dark sea.    From Wordnik.com.  [The King Must Die]

The first ceremony took place in the atrium of the Guardian Villa overlooking the wine-dark sea around Celerbitan.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Abode of Life] Reference

Never had he been more remote from wine-dark seas, sun-bright mountains, and the little houses and olive groves of men.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Unicorn Trade]

Every Sunday he arrived in his wine-dark Buick, a tall, prune-faced, sad-seeming man with an incongruously vital head of wavy hair.    From Wordnik.com.  [Middlesex]

All the way from Greater Zimbabwe they came, across the wine-dark Mediterranean and into these romance-haunted hills, and for what?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Asimov's Science Fiction]

It was a world of which Homer might have sung, singing of the clashing of the metals of men and the sweetness of the wine-dark sea.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fighting Slave Of Gor]

Was I the only one who could get turned on by all the vomiting and wobbling of her wine-dark nipples inside her shirt, for God's sake?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Great San Francisco Poetry Wars, 15] Reference

Siri was a spectral figure here, her long hair swirling in a wine-dark nimbus, the pale strips of her body glowing in the blue-green light.    From Wordnik.com.  [Prayers To Broken Stones]

She was skinny with sharply pointed breasts and huge wine-dark nipples that could honestly make any man's mouth water just looking at them.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Great San Francisco Poetry Wars, Chapter 1] Reference

Thirty oars dipped into the wine-dark water, the men began to chant lustily, and the stern of the Xanthos surged toward a wide stretch of sand.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lord of the Silver Bow]

I would come to hear the voices of the Sirens screaming in my ears, though I was lashed tightly to the upright mast of love by my Penny and her wine-dark nipples.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Great San Francisco Poetry Wars, 14] Reference

Where Homer wrote of a wine-dark sea, Time invented similar compound adjectives to describe people in the news - for instance, flabby-chinned and snaggle-toothed.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Publishing Titan's 'Life' And 'Time'] Reference

'As far as a man's view ranges in the haze, as he sits on a point of outlook and gazes over the wine-dark sea, so far at a spring leap the loud-neighing horses of the gods.'.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Legacy of Greece Essays By: Gilbert Murray, W. R. Inge, J. Burnet, Sir T. L. Heath, D'arcy W. Thompson, Charles Singer, R. W. Livingston, A. Toynbee, A. E. Zimmern, Percy Gardner, Sir Reginald Blomfield] Reference

Long enough the wine-dark wave our weary bark did carry.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Early Poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson] Reference

From there she could watch the sunset clouds wine-dark over the river.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Patrician] Reference

What are the riptides and the undertows of that wine-dark sea in which we all like to occasionally drown?.    From Wordnik.com.  [SF Novelists] Reference

How the red flame leapt in the grate, and what a rich, warm, wine-dark colour it threw all round my red room!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Five Nights] Reference

Zeus and the other gods ere thine embarking, that with most speed thou mightst reach thy country, sailing over the wine-dark deep.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Odyssey] Reference

Agamemnon, baby, hot from acquisition, trade, splendid astride your plunder, speed me across the wine-dark lake in your terrible vessel.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sherry Chandler] Reference