Sometimes the waves are in long windrows, but oftener they are short and choppy like the surface waves of midocean.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania] Reference

He was likened to a sea captain who seizes the lifeboats on a distressed ship in midocean and, saving himself and crew, leaves the passengers to the mercies of the angry waves.    From Wordnik.com.  [Expansion and Conflict] Reference

A good layperson's introduction to the coastal geology of the Pacific Northwest, including a discussion of midocean ridges such as Juan de Fuca, can be found in Cycles of Rock and Water by K. A.    From Wordnik.com.  [Starfish] Reference

The movement is greater than that off midocean volcanic ridges.    From Wordnik.com.  [innovations-report] Reference

But studies had suggested that in midocean, the diatoms did not produce the toxin.    From Wordnik.com.  [NYT > Home Page]

At length he thought that it was doubtless land, and we were much troubled supposing ourselves in midocean.    From Wordnik.com.  [Christoph von Graffenried's Account of the Founding of New Bern. Edited with an Historical Introduction and an English Translation by Vincent H. Todd, Ph.D. University of Illinois in Cooperation with Julius Goebel, Ph.D., Professor of Germanic Languages University of Illinois] Reference

Dr. Sykes was studying shallow earthquakes that occurred along midocean ridges, and Dr. Oliver, along with Bryan.    From Wordnik.com.  [NYT > Home Page] Reference

The San Andreas Fault made sense, as did midocean ridges where tectonic plates pull apart and form new ocean floor.    From Wordnik.com.  [NYT > Home Page] Reference

The island sits on the midocean ridge where two tectonic plates are pulling apart, causing hot magma to rise to the surface.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Seattle Times] Reference

When a great ship founders in midocean, and but a third of the people can be saved, there is then no question of woman's rights.    From Wordnik.com.  [Woman in Modern Society] Reference

The ship was in midocean, and the young guardian, blaming her own inexperience, wept bitterly as preparations went on for the burial.    From Wordnik.com.  [A belle of the fifties : memoirs of Mrs. Clay, of Alabama, covering social and political life in Washington and the South, 1853-66,] Reference

But the oldest oceanic crust is only about 200 million years old, as new crust is continually forming at midocean ridge spreading centers.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

Syndicate chose to order, or left helpless in midocean, -- they would be obliged to admit that there was nothing for them to do but to surrender.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Great War Syndicate] Reference

It was supposed that now, when the officers of the "Adamant" had had time to appreciate the fact that they had no control over the movements of their vessel; that their armament was powerless against their enemies; that the "Adamant" could be towed wherever the Syndicate chose to order, or left helpless in midocean, -- they would be obliged to admit that there was nothing for them to do but to surrender.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Great War Syndicate] Reference

How'd you like to live in a flying house, or see a real Atlantis raised in midocean? ".    From Wordnik.com.  [Operation Luna]

"Just got called up for a midocean run that's going to peak around three in the morning.    From Wordnik.com.  [Starfish] Reference

If that package were with you on the Idaho and she was to go down in midocean and the jewelry with her, some women would say you scuttled the ship in order to rob them. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [A Wounded Name] Reference

A hurricane formed in midocean.    From Wordnik.com.  [Starfarers]

A few fathoms more or less, doesn't count, when one falls from a steamer in midocean. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [A Black Adonis] Reference

"It is a vision of midnight on midocean -- the blackness of darkness above, below, around, beneath.    From Wordnik.com.  [Her Mother's Secret] Reference

We had struck a rock in midocean.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Grain Ship] Reference

The Coldwater had abandoned us in midocean.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lost Continent] Reference

The first follows the line of midocean ridges.    From Wordnik.com.  [CreationWiki - Recent changes [en]]

Land in midocean.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Boy Aviators' Polar Dash or Facing Death in the Antarctic] Reference

Here is a rock jutting up in midocean -- ".    From Wordnik.com.  [A Rock in the Baltic] Reference