bounding main
Example Sentences
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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
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
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
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
“If you mean a home on the bounding main, I’ll get right to work.”
From The Cup of Fury A Novel of Cities and Shipyards by Raleigh, Henry
