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
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
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
Then the wedding bells shall ring and we will sail together over the bounding main.
From The Squire's Daughter Being the First Book in the Chronicles of the Clintons by Marshall, Archibald
