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  • Once there, Anson Burlingame, with his gentle manner and courtly presence, drew from those enfeebled castaways all the story of the burning of the vessel, followed by the long privation and struggle that had lasted through forty-three fearful days and across four thousand miles of stormy sea.

    The Boys' Life of Mark Twain Paine, Albert Bigelow, 1861-1937 1916

  • Once there, Anson Burlingame, with his gentle manner and courtly presence, drew from those enfeebled castaways all the story of the burning of the vessel, followed by the long privation and struggle that had lasted through forty-three fearful days and across four thousand miles of stormy sea.

    The Boys' Life of Mark Twain Albert Bigelow Paine 1899

  • Leaving the blazing pile behind, the "Alfred" put out again into the stormy sea, and made for the northward.

    The Naval History of the United States Volume 1 (of 2) Willis J. Abbot 1898

  • Henry lay awake, thinking of the dead boy, and pictured his eternal sleeping-place, hard by the stormy sea.

    The Colossus A Novel Opie Percival Read 1895

  • "I fear, in this cold and stormy sea, that a raft would be of no real service, though it might prolong our existence for a few hours."

    The Voyages of the Ranger and Crusader And what befell their Passengers and Crews. William Henry Giles Kingston 1847

  • Island residents threw life jackets into the stormy sea.

    Reuters: Top News 2010

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