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  • But that won't happen: in case of high seas, the breakwaters formed by fallen rubble will protect them.†  (source)
  • Life on the high seas.†  (source)
  • Salt-water boils—red, angry, disfiguring—were a leprosy of the high seas, transmitted by the water that soaked me.†  (source)
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  • 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)
  • Hey, man, I've sailed with the most sarcastic scalawags on the high seas.†  (source)
  • Ishmael did not stand up well on high seas and had become addicted to Dramamine.†  (source)
  • The invasion is still going splendidly, in spite of the miserable weather—pouring rains, gale winds and 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)
  • But ten minutes after that, I understood that my previous love was a puddle compared to the high seas before a storm.†  (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)
  • A ship being on the high seas for two years, changing names and crews—that's just a story too.†  (source)
  • Ladies and adventure on the high seas, eh!†  (source)
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