ocean greyhound

"Johnson's right upper-cut is described as the piston of an ocean greyhound making twenty-seven knots," said the man, taking no notice of the answer, and speaking in awestruck tones.

From Essays in Rebellion by Henry W. Nevinson

The impression that the surprising presence of the ocean greyhound made upon Frederick was in a fortissimo scale.

From Atlantis by Adele Szold Seltzer

A flock that has followed an ocean greyhound all day will settle down to sleep at night "bedded" on the rolling water like ducks while "rocked in the cradle of the deep."

From Birds Every Child Should Know by Neltje Blanchan

Think of that, you who disdain to cross the water in anything but an ocean greyhound!

From Le Petit Nord or, Annals of a Labrador Harbour by Sir Wilfred Thomason Grenfell

Another great ocean greyhound, of the Hamburg-American line, neared them at Norton Point.

From Atlantis by Adele Szold Seltzer