sea rover
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In 1851 Lennox-Boyd's great uncle, Benjamin Boyd, a wealthy London broker turned sea rover, rowed off from his yacht Wanderer for a spot of hunting on one of the Solomon Islands.
From Time Magazine Archive
Breezy, blunt Cap Rieber, an office-bound sea rover who feels equally at home in any of the world's ports, was boss of Texas' tanker fleet, and made a specialty of pushing sales of Texaco abroad.
From Time Magazine Archive
These fair waters and yellow-rimmed, palm-nodding islands are the traditional home of the sea rover.
From The Last Galley Impressions and Tales by Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir
Perhaps they had heard from some bold sea rover that we had come, but that we were not wholly gods!
From 1492 by Johnston, Mary
Now, don’t you think that this fellow was a doughty sea rover?
From Famous Privateersmen and Adventurers of the Sea Their rovings, cruises, escapades, and fierce battling upon the ocean for patriotism and for treasure by Johnston, Charles Haven Ladd
