high sea

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high sea - the open seas of the world outside the territorial waters of any nation

international waters

body of water, water - the part of the earth's surface covered with water (such as a river or lake or ocean); "they invaded our territorial waters"; "they were sitting by the water's edge"

briny, main - any very large body of (salt) water

territorial waters - the waters surrounding a nation and its territories over which that nation exercises sovereign jurisdiction

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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.

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It was only later, when upon the white flash of another high sea hurling itself amidships, Jukes had a vision of two pairs of davits leaping black and empty out of the solid blackness, with one overhauled fall flying and an iron-bound block capering in the air, that he became aware of what had happened within about three yards of his back.

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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.

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