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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

In another age he might have been a sea-roving viking or a builder of ancient empires.

From The Gray Phantom by Landon, Herman

They were with the Earl that winter and the summer after, till Kari went sea-roving; then they went with him, and harried far and wide that summer, and everywhere won the victory.

From The story of Burnt Njal From the Icelandic of the Njals Saga by Dasent, George Webbe

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)

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)