marine league
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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Steaming beyond the marine league, I hauled the transport alongside, and we got on board from her the remainder of our armament, and stores.
From Memoirs of Service Afloat, During the War Between the States by Semmes, Raphael
Captain Semmes made one last attempt to reach the coast—or at least that saving marine league, whose shelter he had denied to so many of his victims.
From Cruise and Captures of the Alabama by Goodrich, Albert M.
She was steering for Flores, and probably, like the Starlight, had her eye on the marine league.
From Memoirs of Service Afloat, During the War Between the States by Semmes, Raphael
In the days of Napoleon, it gave 1,237 to the square marine league, a density greater than that of either France or England at that period.
From Historical Sketches, Volume I (of 3) The Turks in Their Relation to Europe; Marcus Tullius Cicero; Apollonius of Tyana; Primitive Christianity by Newman, John Henry
And inside of that marine league, as it is called, the cruisers of one nation mustn't trouble the ships of another with which it happens to be at war.
From Marcy The Blockade Runner by White, George G. (George Gorgas)
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