bounding main
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Home from the bounding main with a wreath of gigantic pearls for his sweetheart, a sailor man stops on his joyful way for a shave.
From Time Magazine Archive
It is no narrow, canalized affair of jealous Europe's pesky little Mediterranean or rebellious Egypt's Suez, but a broad route over the bounding main.
From Time Magazine Archive
Theirs but to dream of the bounding main as they stare at the waves in the water-cooler, arid to suffer in silence one of the subtler horrors of war: Lieut.
From Time Magazine Archive
They are not your usual ship of fools, isolated for metaphorical purposes on the bounding main.
From Time Magazine Archive
And Tom continued gayly: "Sailing, sailing, over the bounding main, For many a stormy wind shall blow, Ere the Rovers get home again!"
From The Rover Boys on Land and Sea The Crusoes of Seven Islands by Stratemeyer, Edward
