high-sea

Now with 17 big boats still being controlled by pirates, you have to wonder how do these rag tag rebels pull off their high-sea captures?

CNN Transcript Nov 20, 2008 2008

But the Vikings also navigated by learning the habits of whales, puffins and other high-sea migrants, whose paths led them first to colonize Iceland and then to Greenland.

The Ancient Mariners 2008

Brandenburg from 1640 to 1688, was fully conscious of the profit his people might acquire by sea commerce, and the little navy of high-sea frigates which he built stood manfully, and often successfully, up to the more powerful navies of Sweden and Spain.

William of Germany Stanley Shaw

The river and high-sea fishing (salmon, cod, herring) has attained large proportions.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon 1840-1916 1913

The Great Elector, the ancestor of the Emperor who ruled Brandenburg from 1640 to 1688, was fully conscious of the profit his people might acquire by sea commerce, and the little navy of high-sea frigates which he built stood manfully, and often successfully, up to the more powerful navies of Sweden and Spain.

William of Germany Shaw, Stanley 1913

Thorpe had given orders that no whisky was to be brought aboard, as he intended to tolerate no high-sea orgies.

The Blazed Trail Stewart Edward White 1909

British high-sea trade to be ruthlessly stopped, failing news of

The Lord of the Sea 1906

Thorpe had given orders that no whiskey was to be brought aboard, as he intended to tolerate no high-sea orgies.

The Blazed Trail 1902

On that ethical understanding many privateer owners built up large fortunes, still enjoyed by descendants who in these days would look upon high-sea looting of non-combatants with definite horror.

The Light of Scarthey Egerton Castle 1889

I knew that the days of piracy in the Straits of Malacca, save for an occasional outbreak of high-sea petty larceny on a Chinese lumber junk or a native trader's tonkang, were past, and I did not believe that the rebels would have the hardihood to attack, day or night,

Tales of the Malayan Coast From Penang to the Philippines Rounsevelle Wildman 1882