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high seas
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  • The invasion is still going splendidly, in spite of the miserable weather—pouring rains, gale winds and high seas.†  (source)
  • With the wind a little wild and the building shifting back and forth, one could almost imagine one was crossing the deck of a ship on high seas.†  (source)
  • His favorites were the handful of adventure books, the ones that let him pretend he was a knight fighting a dragon to rescue a kidnapped princess, or an explorer sailing on the high seas, holding tight to a mast while a hurricane raged about him.†  (source)
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  • Life on the high seas.†  (source)
  • Rigid Hull Inflatable Boats (RHIBs) floated beside us carrying Coast Guard Law Enforcement Detachment (LEDET), the lead agency for apprehending drug traffickers on the high seas.†  (source)
  • Naturally, we will not simply be bystanders with regard to piratical acts by American ships on the high seas.†  (source)
  • He was like a friend made on board ship, on the high seas; now we had come to his home port.†  (source)
  • A ship being on the high seas for two years, changing names and crews—that's just a story too.†  (source)
  • As it was discovered by survey, the seizure of the vessel Amistad took place on the high seas.†  (source)
  • They would be taken out onto the high seas and then shot.†  (source)
  • Ladies and adventure on the high seas, eh!†  (source)
  • Clara ran her eyes over everything and found it all quite lovely, just as she had politely approved of a sunset on the high seas, the Piazza San Marco, and her diamond jewelry.†  (source)
  • After poisoning the animals they closed up the doors and windows with brick and mortar and they scattered out into the world with their wooden trunks that were lined with pictures of saints, prints from magazines, and the portraits of sometime sweethearts, remote and fantastic, who shat diamonds, or ate cannibals, or were crowned playing-card kings on the high seas.†  (source)
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