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  • But ten minutes after that, I understood that my previous love was a puddle compared to the high seas before a storm.†   (source)
  • A ship being on the high seas for two years, changing names and crews—that's just a story too.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • That are on the high seas.†   (source)
  • He remains calm in the face of adversity, whether a fourhorse team blocking the road or a storm on the high seas.†   (source)
  • Dutch prosperity depended in large measure on British support for Dutch trade on the high seas.†   (source)
  • If he'd liked to tell what he knew one of the men would have been strung up for mutiny on the high seas, and two of the girls for murder.†   (source)
  • Ladies and adventure on the high seas, eh!†   (source)
  • Naturally, we will not simply be bystanders with regard to piratical acts by American ships on the high seas.†   (source)
  • The hard sailing was made more difficult because the tribesmen were terrified by the high seas and roaring winds.†   (source)
  • Piracies, Felonies on High Seas†   (source)
  • To get out of Odessa on to the high seas the traffic has to pass two narrow straits both commanded by NATO in time of war—the Bosporus and Gibraltar.†   (source)
  • A mass meeting at Carnegie Hall condemned Norris and hiscolleagues as "treasonable and reprehensible" men "who refused to defend the Stars and Stripes on the high seas"; and the crowd hooted "traitor" and "hang him" whenever the names of Norris, La Follette and their supporters were mentioned.†   (source)
  • A definition of "felonies on the high seas" is required.†   (source)
  • As it was discovered by survey, the seizure of the vessel Amistad took place on the high seas.†   (source)
  • Don't you think you should have gone to the sheriff and told him about this battery business you claim occurred on the high seas?†   (source)
  • If I survived my apprenticeship as a high seas animal trainer, it was because Richard Parker did not really want to attack me.†   (source)
  • There were high seas between San Piedro and the mainland that were preventing the Anacortes ferry from running, so it was not possible to house the members of the jury anywhere but where they had been housed the previous evening—the cold, dark rooms of the Amity Harbor Hotel, where they would have to make the best of things, since circumstances were now beyond Judge Fielding's control and other accommodations were not available.†   (source)
  • When it rises up and the circle that imprisons you is broken by hills of water, you suffer that peculiarity of the high seas, suffocation in open spaces, and you wish the sea would be flat again.†   (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)
  • It was a chilly night and the desert breeze was blowing, making the old wooden ceilings creak and the curtains swell like black sails on the high seas.†   (source)
  • Three months later they received in a large envelope twenty-nine letters and more than fifty pictures that he had accumulated during the leisure of the high seas.†   (source)
  • He knew how much could happen in France or Britain or on the high seas, or within his own country, over which he had no control.†   (source)
  • We've got boatloads of peas that are on the high seas from Atlanta to Holland to pay for the tulips that were shipped to Geneva to pay for the cheeses that must go to Vienna M.I.F.' M.I.F.?†   (source)
  • France and Britain were still at war, and on the high seas both the French and the British were again attacking American commerce, seizing American ships, and impressing American seamen.†   (source)
  • Cases that originate on the high seas and are of admiralty or maritime jurisdiction; Cases in which the State courts cannot be expected to be impartial and unbiased.†   (source)
  • It is not unforeseeable that they would overtake the ship on the high seas, board it, and take all the blacks back to Cuba for trial.†   (source)
  • Another improvement is the national government's power to define and punish piracies and felonies committed on the high seas, and offenses against the law of nations.†   (source)
  • And Article 9: 'All ships and merchandise whatsoever, which shall be rescued out of the hands of any pirates or robbers on the high seas, shall be brought into a port of either state and shall be delivered to the custody of the officers of that port.†   (source)
  • He addressed the matter of prizes taken at sea by American privateers, and gave all possible attention to the vexing issue of what to do about American prisoners of war held by the British and those British prisoners taken on the high seas who were being held in France.†   (source)
  • The federal government will: make treaties send and receive ambassadors, ministers, and consuls define and punish piracies, felonies on the high seas and against the law of nations regulate foreign commerce (after 1808, it may prohibit the importation of slaves; until then, it will charge a duty of ten dollars per head to discourage such importations) 2.†   (source)
  • I ordered him to take Swordfish out beyond the twelve-mile limit and sink her on the high seas, in deep water.†   (source)
  • He was like a friend made on board ship, on the high seas; now we had come to his home port.†   (source)
  • Sometimes an angry god of the high seas sends them to me.†   (source)
  • The right of the grim-visaged pirate upon the high seas is exactly the same.†   (source)
  • By then we had fared nearly 13,000 leagues from our starting point in the Pacific high seas.†   (source)
  • Emerging from the Strait of Gibraltar, the Nautilus took to the high seas.†   (source)
  • Trust a boat on the high seas to bring out the Irrational that lurks at the bottom of every thought, sentiment, sensation, emotion.†   (source)
  • All its phases were familiar enough to me, every characteristic, all the alternatives which were likely to face me on the high seas--everything!†   (source)
  • He confronted savages on tropical shores, quelled mutinies on the high seas, and in a small boat upon the ocean kept up the hearts of despairing men—always an example of devotion to duty, and as unflinching as a hero in a book.†   (source)
  • 'What,' said I to myself, 'can this English vessel be doing thus far from the usual track of ships?' and I called to mind tales of mutinous crews who have risen against their officers, have chosen some such sheltered retreat as this; have disguised the vessel, and then sailed forth to rob and plunder upon the high seas.†   (source)
  • When the reader remembers the vast extent of the American wilderness, at that early day, he will perceive that it was possible for even a tribe to remain months undiscovered in particular portions of it; nor was the danger of encountering a foe, the usual precautions being observed, as great in the woods, as it is on the high seas, in a time of active warfare.†   (source)
  • But please understand that the Abraham Lincoln chased you over the Pacific high seas in the belief it was hunting some powerful marine monster, which had to be purged from the ocean at all cost.†   (source)
  • …Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries; To constitute Tribunals inferior to the Supreme Court; To define and punish Piracies and Felonies committed on the high Seas, and Offences against the Law of Nations; To declare War, grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal, and make Rules concerning Captures on Land and Water; To raise and support Armies, but no Appropriation of Money to that Use shall be for a…†   (source)
  • Of course you know a capture on the high seas is piracy, unless your boat is regularly commissioned, either as a public or a private armed cruiser.†   (source)
  • Yes, here were a set of sea-dogs, many of whom without the slightest bashfulness had boarded great whales on the high seas—entire strangers to them—and duelled them dead without winking; and yet, here they sat at a social breakfast table—all of the same calling, all of kindred tastes—looking round as sheepishly at each other as though they had never been out of sight of some sheepfold among the Green Mountains.†   (source)
  • Whereas, some merchant ships crossing each other's wake in the mid-Atlantic, will oftentimes pass on without so much as a single word of recognition, mutually cutting each other on the high seas, like a brace of dandies in Broadway; and all the time indulging, perhaps, in finical criticism upon each other's rig.†   (source)
  • This fishing ended our stay in the waterways of the Amazon, and that evening the Nautilus took to the high seas once more.†   (source)
  • Carried by the Ganges to the high seas, these were deceased Indian villagers who hadn't been fully devoured by vultures, the only morticians in these parts.†   (source)
  • From this fact he drew the conclusion that the Antarctic Circle must contain considerable shores, since icebergs can't form on the high seas but only along coastlines.†   (source)
  • People say they've sighted this slippery beast again in the Pacific high seas—I'm truly willing to believe it, but two months have already gone by since then, and judging by your narwhale's personality, it hates growing moldy from hanging out too long in the same waterways!†   (source)
  • …Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries; To constitute Tribunals inferior to the supreme Court; To define and punish Piracies and Felonies committed on the high Seas, and Offences against the Law of Nations; To declare War, grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal, and make Rules concerning Captures on Land and Water; To raise and support Armies, but no Appropriation of Money to that Use shall be for a…†   (source)
  • He has constrained our fellow Citizens taken Captive on the high Seas to bear Arms against their Country, to become the executioners of their friends and Brethren, or to fall themselves by their Hands.†   (source)
  • You're some skipper of profiteers,
    roving the high seas in his scudding craft,
    reckoning up his freight with a keen eye out
    for home-cargo, grabbing the gold he can!
    You're no athlete.†   (source)
  • …shrouding over in thunderheads
    the earth and sea at once—and night swept down from the sky—
    East and South Winds clashed and the raging West and North,
    sprung from the heavens, roiled heaving breakers up—
    and Odysseus' knees quaked, his spirit too;
    numb with fear he spoke to his own great heart:
    "Wretched man—what becomes of me now, at last?
    I fear the nymph foretold it all too well—
    on the high seas, she said, before I can reach
    my native land I'll fill my cup of pain!†   (source)
  • …many years ago did you host the man,
    that unfortunate guest of yours, my son ….
    there was a son, or was he all a dream?
    That most unlucky man, whom now, I fear,
    far from his own soil and those he loves,
    the fish have swallowed down on the high seas
    or birds and beasts on land have made their meal.
    Nor could the ones who bore him—mother, father—
    wrap his corpse in a shroud and mourn him deeply.
    Nor could his warm, generous wife, so self-possessed,
    Penelope, ever keen for her…†   (source)
  • …money under false pretences, forgery, embezzlement, misappropriation of public money, betrayal of public trust, malingering, mayhem, corruption of minors, criminal libel, blackmail, contempt of court, arson, treason, felony, mutiny on the high seas, trespass, burglary, jailbreaking, practice of unnatural vice, desertion from armed forces in the field, perjury, poaching, usury, intelligence with the king's enemies, impersonation, criminal assault, manslaughter, wilful and premeditated…†   (source)
  • Both reforms met with wide approval; the exactions of the English, particularly on the high seas, were beginning to break up the British party.†   (source)
  • Nor by your streams alone, you rivers, By you, your banks Connecticut, By you and all your teeming life old Thames, By you Potomac laving the ground Washington trod, by you Patapsco, You Hudson, you endless Mississippi—nor you alone, But to the high seas launch, my thought, his memory.†   (source)
  • A definition of felonies on the high seas is evidently requisite.†   (source)
  • He has had most favourable and happy speed: Tempests themselves, high seas, and howling winds, The gutter'd rocks, and congregated sands,— Traitors ensteep'd to clog the guiltless keel,— As having sense of beauty, do omit Their mortal natures, letting go safely by The divine Desdemona.†   (source)
  • The power to define and punish piracies and felonies committed on the high seas, and offenses against the law of nations, belongs with equal propriety to the general government, and is a still greater improvement on the articles of Confederation.†   (source)
  • …government, consists of those which regulate the intercourse with foreign nations, to wit: to make treaties; to send and receive ambassadors, other public ministers, and consuls; to define and punish piracies and felonies committed on the high seas, and offenses against the law of nations; to regulate foreign commerce, including a power to prohibit, after the year 1808, the importation of slaves, and to lay an intermediate duty of ten dollars per head, as a discouragement to such…†   (source)
  • …contained in the articles of Union; 3d, to all those in which the United States are a party; 4th, to all those which involve the PEACE of the CONFEDERACY, whether they relate to the intercourse between the United States and foreign nations, or to that between the States themselves; 5th, to all those which originate on the high seas, and are of admiralty or maritime jurisdiction; and, lastly, to all those in which the State tribunals cannot be supposed to be impartial and unbiased.†   (source)
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