South-Sea

She might at once have been known as a South-Sea whaler by the height she was out of the water, and by the boats which hung from their davits around her, painted white, light though strongly-built, with their stems and sterns sharp alike, and with a slight curve in their keels -- each from about twenty-six to nearly thirty feet in length.

Old Jack William Henry Giles Kingston 1847

This brilliant analytical volume documenting the Mississippi scheme of 1719-1720, the English South-Sea bubble of 1711-1720 and the Dutch tulipomania of 1634-1636 are still valuable narratives for insight into the numerous financial booms and busts over time.

Another Classic Book On Historic Bubbles 2008

I suppose, said the Lady, this Prophesy gives you so great an Aversion to the South-Sea.

A Patch-Work Screen for the Ladies 2008

South-Sea Directors had sent his Master Word they wou'd dine with him to Day.

A Patch-Work Screen for the Ladies 2008

Likewise, fluctuations of a wild and South-Sea nature were occasioned, by orphan-holders keeping back, and then rushing into the market a dozen together.

Our Mutual Friend 2004

He is no Munchausen; there is nothing improbable in his adventures, save their occurrence to himself, and that he should have been a man before the mast on board South-Sea traders, or whalers, or on any ship or ships whatever.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 380, June, 1847 Various

There were no delicate feeders on board, but this saccharine essence of rat was too much even for the unscrupulous stomachs of South-Sea whalers.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 380, June, 1847 Various

They often look magnificently to my gymnasium-trained eye; and I always like to observe them when bathing, -- such splendid muscular development, set off by that smooth coating of adipose tissue which makes them, like the South-Sea

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 87, January, 1865 Various

_Gratia_, formerly a Country House hired by the _South-Sea_ Factors, and one _Mac Pherson_, who had also been in that Company's Service, and was well acquainted with the Country, was their Guide.

An Account of the expedition to Carthagena, with explanatory notes and observations Charles Knowles

This produced an order from the Spanish Court to their ambassador, to allow the accounts of the British merchants, upon condition that the Spanish demand on the South-Sea Company be deducted: and that Oglethorpe be recalled from Georgia, and no more employed in that quarter, as he had there made great encroachments on his Catholic Majesty's dominions.

An Historical Account of the Rise and Progress of the Colonies of South Carolina and Georgia, Volume 2 Alexander Hewatt