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“How did that happen? … There’s a great sea story there that we’ll never know.”

From Washington Post • Nov. 10, 2020

But there was no better sea story in Rio than Santiago Lange of Argentina.

From New York Times • Aug. 22, 2016

Mystery stories shlock-style had a white strip, but the librarian would never file Chandler or Highsmith under mystery – they were literature, just as Moby-Dick was not a sea story and was not romance.

From The Guardian • Nov. 23, 2012

Sherry Lansing, Grey's predecessor, had a nice run of Oscar-winning blockbusters: Forrest Gump, Braveheart and a sea story called Titanic.

From Time Magazine Archive

Omoo followed in 1847, Moby Dick, or the White Whale, a powerful sea story, in 1852, and Israel Potter in 1855.

From A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by Cousin, John W. (John William)