bounding main
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It is no narrow, canalized affair of jealous Europe's pesky little Mediterranean or rebellious Egypt's Suez, but a broad route over the bounding main.
From Time Magazine Archive
They are not your usual ship of fools, isolated for metaphorical purposes on the bounding main.
From Time Magazine Archive
Theirs but to dream of the bounding main as they stare at the waves in the water-cooler, arid to suffer in silence one of the subtler horrors of war: Lieut.
From Time Magazine Archive
Home from the bounding main with a wreath of gigantic pearls for his sweetheart, a sailor man stops on his joyful way for a shave.
From Time Magazine Archive
To sail and sail the bounding main, And then come back to port again?
From The Outdoor Girls at Rainbow Lake Or, the stirring cruise of the motor boat Gem by Laura Lee Hope
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