And when the weather was fine and the colonel felt well enough, he would invite them to take a sail in his cutter upon the blue adriatic.
"Erlach Court"
Ossip Schubin
He was as good as his word; he thought of it for two whole days, and then said that he had a correspondent on the shore of the adriatic, in a little-visited town, where no news of my father's history was like to reach, and that he would write to him to take me into his counting-house in some capacity: a clerk, or possibly a messenger, till I should prove myself worthy of being advanced to the desk.
"That Boy Of Norcott's"
Charles James Lever
Phoenician sailors were essentially southerners-men who, if they would brave now and again the cold winds of the Aegean and adriatic, refused to do so oftener than was necessary-men to whom African shores and a climate softened by the breath of the Ocean were more congenial.
"The Ancient East"
D. G. Hogarth