| The shores of the Bosphorus were lined with fishermen and a procession of large, slow-moving families enjoying the unusually fine weather. |
| Istanbul straddles the Bosphorus strait, the stretch of water which creates a natural north-south divide in the city and joins the Sea of Marmara to the Black Sea. |
| I have seen it on Greek vases, and among the sailors of the Cyclades and on the Bosphorus. |
| Walking in the night air along the Bosphorus where the city light scintillated on the water, I envied the dervishes their passion, their longing and their faith. |
| Nor is it doubted by historians that Ibrahim the Mad had two hundred and eighty women of his seraglio sewn into sacks and cast into the Bosphorus. |
| Whoever possesses the Bosphorus, propontis, and Archipelago, must become a maritime nation in spite of treaties. |
