sea-roving
- a word derived from sea rover.
Example Sentences
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Cousin Jorge is a grandson of sea-roving Paul Delano, the swashbuckling Chilean patriot who helped to break Spain's power on South America's West Coast.
From Time Magazine Archive
His tales of sea-going and sea-roving were wonderful indeed.
From The Corner House Girls Under Canvas How they reached Pleasant Cove and what happened afterward by Hill, Grace Brooks
If his grandfather had been a Swede, should we not have said that the old sea-roving blood broke out in bold speculation and insatiable travel?
From Robert Browning by Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith)
But little recked our gallant men; And loud the cry might be heard then Of Norway's brave sea-roving son— 'On 'gainst the foe!
From Heimskringla, or the Chronicle of the Kings of Norway by Snorri Sturluson
Liberty, crushed elsewhere under the deadweight of feudalism, found a home in the bleak North, and a rough but loving welcome from the piratical, sea-roving!
From Erling the Bold by Ballantyne, R. M. (Robert Michael)
