sea rover
Example Sentences
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Breezy, blunt Cap Rieber, an office-bound sea rover who feels equally at home in any of the world's ports, was boss of Texas' tanker fleet, and made a specialty of pushing sales of Texaco abroad.
From Time Magazine Archive
In 1851 Lennox-Boyd's great uncle, Benjamin Boyd, a wealthy London broker turned sea rover, rowed off from his yacht Wanderer for a spot of hunting on one of the Solomon Islands.
From Time Magazine Archive
The dead sea rover was seated at a rough oak table with his head resting on his hand as if in deep thought.
From The Boy Aviators' Polar Dash or Facing Death in the Antarctic by Goldfrap, John Henry
Perhaps they had heard from some bold sea rover that we had come, but that we were not wholly gods!
From 1492 by Johnston, Mary
Another bold sea rover of Portugal sailed four hundred miles from land, where he picked up a strangely carved paddle and several pieces of wood of a sort not to be found in Europe.
From Discoverers and Explorers by Shaw, Edward R. (Edward Richard)
