bounding main
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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
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
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.
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Fly with his broken chain, Far o’er the bounding main, Never to love again, Eileen aroon!”
From We and the World, Part II A Book for Boys by Ewing, Juliana Horatia Gatty
