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Usage examples of "throw overboard".
And as for the sea serpents that the slaveships lure into our waters, chumming them along with the bodies they throw overboard, well, we can welcome them right into Trader Bay and never need the boneyard again.
As soon as I had obtained from the cask lashed on the deck a drink of water, to wash down the cold fried ham which I had eaten, I set work to throw overboard the planks on deck.
Diamonds are too valuable to throw overboard in the hope that your man'll pick them up.
It is equally true that others, particularly old worn-out ones, will sometimes throw overboard the precepts of a lifetime, if by so doing they can possess a woman who has re-aroused their lust.
CATHOLIC: And you would throw overboard the grand assembly of saints in order to reform a prison?
Aboli knew the value of ransom as well as any man aboard: a dead enemy officer was merely so much rotting meat to throw overboard to the sharks that followed in their wake but a captive was worth good gold guilders.
I cannot throw overboard an animal that I hold in much affection, Mynheer Von Stroom.
Captain Hillard rounded up a few deckhands and a small band of passengers, and directed them to throw overboard any cotton bales that had not caught fire.
We can't be that far from land-' He stood up, began looking around for things to throw overboard.
Doggie makes doo-doo on the simulated grass, you throw overboard—.
Perhaps you're too valuable to throw overboard to drown, Zacharias.
Tomorrow morning, that admiral of yours is going to throw overboard not lead but pure gold.