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
"The picture," said Prodigy Ledger to a New York Times reporter, "is called 'On Board the Hispaniola,' and it's based on a sea story, the name of which I have forgotten."
From Time Magazine Archive
"Youth," as a story, is no more than an orthodox sea story, and W. Clark Russell contrived better ones.
From A Book of Prefaces by Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis)
