Meaning of Hellespont | Babel Free

Definitions

The strait connecting the Sea of Marmara with the Aegean Sea to the west.

historical

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Examples

“That he who has the time should lack the force, that she who has the force should lack the time! That a trifling and in all probability tractable obstruction of some endocrinal Bandusia, that a mere matter of forty-five or fifty minutes by the clock, should as effectively as death itself, or as the Hellespont, separate lovers.”

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