marine league
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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Captain Butcher replied that he wished to take in coal from the bark, and that he would go outside the marine league for that purpose.
From Cruise and Captures of the Alabama by Goodrich, Albert M.
He next charged that the prize-master had brought her within the marine league after her capture.
From Memoirs of Service Afloat, During the War Between the States by Semmes, Raphael
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)
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
Its orders, generally, were to defend from molestation by a foreign armed ship all vessels of the United States within the marine league, seaward, to which neutral jurisdiction was conceded by international law.
From Sea Power in its Relations to the War of 1812 Volume 1 by Mahan, A. T. (Alfred Thayer)
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