bounding main
Example Sentences
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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
But for almost two years of wartime service they were all over the bounding main and in many a disease-ridden liberty port.
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
And Tom continued gayly: "Sailing, sailing, over the bounding main, For many a stormy wind shall blow, Ere the Rovers get home again!"
From The Rover Boys on Land and Sea The Crusoes of Seven Islands by Stratemeyer, Edward
