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
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
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
They speak of "the bounding main," "the raging billows," "seas mountains high," "the breath of the gale," "the seething breakers," and so on; but regarding the commonplace, quiet everyday life at sea they know nothing.
From The Ethics of Drink and Other Social Questions Joints In Our Social Armour by Runciman, James
