ocean greyhound
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Globe-girdler Bly, bloomered and veiled, sailed from Hoboken, N. J. on a bow-spritted ocean greyhound, completed her stint in 72� days.
From Time Magazine Archive
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 Grenfell, Wilfred Thomason, Sir
The wind was shouting through our rigging, the Mary Rebecca was half over on her side and rushing ahead like an ocean greyhound.
From Tales of the Fish Patrol by Varian, George
At last, after æons of suffering which reminded him of nothing so much as his initiation into the college fraternity, he felt himself being dragged up the side of the great ocean greyhound.
From The Ghost Breaker A Novel Based Upon the Play by Goddard, Charles
At this period of the slower and more cumbrous weaving of the Shuttle, the world had not yet awakened even to the possibilities of the ocean greyhound.
From The Shuttle by Burnett, Frances Hodgson
