This, at such an hour of the night, surprised me greatly; but I was too ignorant to draw the true conclusion -- that we were going north-about round Scotland, and were now on the
high sea between the Orkney and Shetland Islands, having avoided the dangerous currents of the Pentland Firth.
So, speeding homeward from that traitor, he made ready his boat, and with his wife and three sons and two daughters and Havelok, they set sail upon the
high sea, fleeing for their lives.
In the morning I would gather some provisions in the dingey, and after setting fire to the pyre before me, push out into the desolation of the
high sea once more.
"Mutiny on the
high sea may have been common a hundred years ago, but in this good year 1888 it is the least likely of happenings.
The profit of that enterprise will enable me to obtain a long, low, black schooner, raise a death's-head flag and engage in commerce on the
high seas. From my gains in that business I can pay for the Presidency, which at $50,000 a year will give me in four years - " but it took him so long to make the calculation that the bill to subsidise cat-ranches passed without his vote, and he was compelled to return to his constituents an honest man, tormented with a clean conscience.
THE SECOND class of powers, lodged in the general government, consists of those which regulate the intercourse with foreign nations, to wit: to make treaties; to send and receive ambassadors, other public ministers, and consuls; to define and punish piracies and felonies committed on the
high seas, and offenses against the law of nations; to regulate foreign commerce, including a power to prohibit, after the year 1808, the importation of slaves, and to lay an intermediate duty of ten dollars per head, as a discouragement to such importations.
Lastly the Greeks sail away and Athena plans to destroy them on the
high seas.
Yes, here were a set of sea-dogs, many of whom without the slightest bashfulness had boarded great whales on the
high seas --entire strangers to them --and duelled them dead without winking; and yet, here they sat at a social breakfast table --all of the same calling, all of kindred tastes --looking round as sheepishly at each other as though they had never been out of sight of some sheepfold among the Green Mountains.
He has constrained our fellow Citizens taken Captive on the
high Seas to bear Arms against their Country, to become the executioners of their friends and Brethren, or to fall themselves by their Hands.
From the first the mere anecdote, the mere statement I might say, that such a thing had happened on the
high seas, appeared to me a sufficient subject for meditation.
They had heard of the frigate Phoebe and the Isaac Todd being on the
high seas, and were on their way down to await their arrival.
He spoke disrespectfully of the equator, he skipped from continent to continent, he derided the zones, he mopped up the
high seas with his napkin.
high sea - the open seas of the world outside the territorial waters of any nation