We make this wide encircling movement in the Mediterranean, having for its primary object the recovery of the command of that vital sea, but also having for its object the exposure of the under-belly of the Axis, especially Italy, to heavyattack.

-Churchill, Lord Randolph Henry Spencer
  Speech in the House of Commons,11 Nov.

All my wife has ever taken from the Mediterraneanö from that whole vast intuitive cultureöare four bottles of Chianti to make into lamps.

-Shaffer, Peter
  Equus, act1, sc.18.

Thou who didst waken from his summer dreams The blue Mediterranean, where he lay, Lulled by the coil of his crystalline streams Beside a pumice isle in Baiae's bay, And saw in sleep old palaces and towers Quivering within the wave's intenser day, All overgrown with azure moss and flowers So sweet, the sense faints picturing them.

-Shelley, Percy Bysshe
  'Ode to theWestWind', l.29^36.