marine league
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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They were still lying to, and fortunately for me, they were four or five miles off; outside of the charmed marine league.
From Memoirs of Service Afloat, During the War Between the States by Semmes, Raphael
All this time the two mates came steadily on, until the whole of the little fleet of boats was, by this time, not less than a marine league distant from the schooners.
From The Sea Lions The Lost Sealers by Cooper, James Fenimore
By international consent the jurisdiction of a country bordering on the "high seas" is a line one marine league seaward from the margin of the land, and following its meanders.
From North America by Russell, Israel C. (Cook)
It is generally understood that a nation's authority extends out into the sea a marine league from shore.
From Studies in Civics by McCleary, J. T. (James Thompson)
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
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