sea story
Example Sentences
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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
Ebb Tide provides several "firsts": It is Technicolor's first sea story; Viennese Oscar Homolka's first Hollywood vehicle; blonde Frances Farmer's first appearance in a sarong.
From Time Magazine Archive
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"It is a long time since we have read anything racier, breezier, more healthful and invigorating than Mr. Metcalfe's fine sea story."
From Blown to Bits or, The Lonely Man of Rakata by Ballantyne, R. M. (Robert Michael)