ocean greyhound
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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A flock that has followed an ocean greyhound all day will settle down to sleep at night "bedded" on the rolling water like ducks while "rocked in the cradle of the deep."
From Birds Every Child Should Know by Neltje Blanchan
At this period of the slower and more cumbrous weaving of the Shuttle, the world had not yet awakened even to the possibilities of the ocean greyhound.
From The Shuttle by Frances Hodgson Burnett
"Yes; but a nail in the pilot-house will draw the needle and drive the mightiest ocean greyhound on the rocks with the captain at the wheel dead sure of his course."
From The One Woman by Thomas Dixon
It was a perfect day at sea, and so thought the passengers on board the swift ocean greyhound that plowed its way through the quiet waters of the Pacific.
From Bert Wilson, Wireless Operator by J. W. Duffield
Steadily the ocean greyhound plowed its way through the dark swells of the Atlantic.
From Sons and Fathers by Harry Stillwell Edwards
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