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...hijacker". In Spanish "filibustero" meant "freebooting" and applied to 16th century privateers. Irregular military adventurers, mercenaries and guer...

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...this all my life. I copulated with commas. I hunted dreams on paper—cheap privateer! I was priest, pharaoh, general, slave, glutton. Paper is a sick... ...ericles had a soothsayer’s mug dripping with ignominious grey whiskers, a privateer’s baleful eye, a silver-grey hide, a black tail, three white fee... ...ney: as one of the King’s Men he had cheated me roundly; now he faced me, privateer, poet, rich man’s bastard who would defy immortal Caesar: on twe... ...way from the wall, deflecting blow after blow. Ashley was fighting like a privateer with a cutlass, each blow shoulder-down. My wrist felt beaten. I ...

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...d cronyism and corruption. One thing was to privatize and another was to privateer. But there were some grounds for some solid criticisms as well: ...

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...y of English Pirates: Captain Kidd was finally brought to justice as an outlaw privateer gone turned pirate. What was he hung for? For accidentally... ...of honest killers and raider and murderers by calling them Pirates instead of Privateers: because they were giving them a bad name. Because the old ...

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...aw of nations has assumed that merchantmen would defend themselves against privateers or cruisers, vis- ible craft giving chase upon the open sea. 25...

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...s; it is not necessary that one fourth part should he sailors. The T errible privateer, Captain Death, stood the hottest engagement of any ship last “...

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...her voyage home from South American waters, our enter- prising light-craft privateers lay in wait, she had the double attraction of being desirable an...

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...ink him worth exchanging. My uncle captured him last year in the Ferdinand privateer, off Belle Isle, and he cured my uncle of a r-r-raging toothache.... ...shot in our quar- ter. Then we was chased two days and a night by a French privateer, firing between squalls, and the dirty little English ten-gun bri...

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...eneral war, and, for a novelty, it oc- curred in an English ship. A French privateer captured the vessel on her passage home, the flaxseed was condemn...

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...ovince House ball. And there, not unfrequently, sat the rough captain of a privateer, just returned from a successful cruise, in which he had captured...

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...uts,” Disko replied, “earnin’ my bread on the deep waters, an’ dodgin’ Reb privateers. Sorry I can’t accommodate you with red-hot shot, Tom Platt; but...

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...ashing the check was the very cream of the jest to Bessie. Then the little privateer sailed across the Thames, to be swallowed up in the gray wilderne...

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...r ending, and had written too, but these letters must have been taken by a privateer in the packet that brought them; for Esmond knew nothing of their...

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..., or, as is more probable, a considerable share- holder in the joint-stock privateers from Tenedos, &c., is safe both from further funding and refundi...

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...hing more than two hundred tons, Yankee-built and very old. Fit- ted for a privateer out of a New England port during the war of 1812, she had been ca...

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... I fear. They say the Jeune Amelie was his, which was taken by the Y ankee privateer Molasses. And that’s flat—unless I see Amelia’s ten thousand down...

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...wo days of foul weather all the time I was at sea in her; and after taking privateers 53 Jane Austen enough to be very entertaining, I had the good l...

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...e is not Benjamin Pump. But Miss Betsey here must have altered more than a privateer in disguise, since she has got on her woman’s duds, if she will ... ...rse like than if you should happen to fall to leeward in crossing a French privateer, or some such thing, 97 James Fenimore Cooper mayhap, as a dozen...

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...I believe) by Woodes Rogers, from the log book of the Duke and Duchess,—(a privateer fitted out, to the best of my remembrance, by the Bristol mer- ch...

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...it needs must be. A man in this pass would slaughter his parent, just as a privateer will load his guns with silver pieces taken out of the booty soon...

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...there; She had a curious crew as well as cargo, Like the first old Greek privateer, the Argo. But man is a carnivorous production, And must ...

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...t interesting moment of his passage to England, when the alarm of a French privateer was at the height, she burst through his recital with the proposa...

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...efore been forced to be, enemies of Great Britain.] As to the treatment of privateers in the insurgent service, you will say that this is a question e... ...ess of Paris, of which body Great Britain was herself a member, abolishing privateering every- where in all cases and forever. Y ou already have our a... ... receive it, it can only be because she is willing to become the patron of privateering when aimed at our devas- tation. These positions are not elabo... ...the insurrectionists announced their purpose to enter upon the practice of privateering. Other calls were made for volunteers to serve for three years...

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..., it is true; but I have served, and that is something; and, in the way of privateering and worrying the enemy in his ships and cargoes, I’ve done my ... ...particular about persons.” “I know her,” said Cap decidedly; “she sailed a privateer out of Morlaix in the last war; and good cruises she made of them...

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...neugh— naebody cares to trouble him—smuggler, when his guns are in ballast—privateer, or pirate faith, when he gets them mounted. He has done more mis...

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...secretly, of course, but in order to have a hold upon you; the owners of a privateer ought to have security when the brig and the captain are at sea.”...

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... before now, and have done it. I only wish I had the command of a clipping privateer to be gin with and could carry off the Chancellor and keep him o...

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...are but extension bridges; armed ones but floating forts; even pirates and privateers, though following the sea as highwaymen the road, they but plund...

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... are but extension bridges; armed ones but floating forts; even pirates and privateers, though following the sea as highwaymen the road, they but plund...

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... I fear. They say the Jeune Amelie was his, which was taken by the Y ankee privateer Molasses. And that’s flat—unless I see Amelia’s ten thousand down...

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... before now, and have done it. I only wish I had the command of a clipping privateer to be gin with and could carry off the Chancellor and keep him o...

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...a leak—” “She is gaining on us!” the General broke in. “She is a Columbian privateer,” the captain said in his ear, “and we are still six leagues from... ...hat side of the vessel. With scarcely an exception, however, they took the privateer for a merchantman, and watched her course with interest, till all... ...“All your pas- sengers are Frenchmen; they have chartered your vessel. The privateer is a Parisian, you say? Well and good, run up the white flag, and... ...e creature, swift and intelligent as a greyhound or some bird of prey. The privateer crew stood silent, ready in case of resistance to shatter the wre... ..., with tears of rage in his eyes—and saw the steersman swimming out to the privateer. “This time it will be good-bye for good,” said the captain by wa... ...el. The two brigs came up alongside, and the shock of con- tact roused the privateer captain from his musings; he spoke a word in the ear of the lieut... ...grappled the Saint-Ferdinand with miraculous quickness. The captain of the privateer gave his orders in a low voice to the lieutenant, who repeated th... ...art of the cargo. A brief conference took place between the captain of the privateer and his lieutenant and a sailor, who seemed to be the mate of the... ...r own number, who, in their opinion, were wor- thy to join the crew of the privateer. Then the boys tied the rest together by the feet in spite of fri...

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... Collectivism. He was, except in the commonplaces of war and patriotism, a privateer through and through. No- body in his plays, whether king or citiz...

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...gentry who take out a license for which they pay a thousand crowns, as the privateer takes out his letters of marque, hold these rare products of the ...

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...y foot in the sheer, When there came a certain trading-brig with news of a privateer. Her rigging was rough with the clotted drift that drives in a No... ...thirty foot in the sheer, Lifting again from the outer main with news of a privateer; Flying his pluck at our mizzen-truck for weft of Admiralty, Heav...

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...in the days of Rodney’s war, when the Prothee, we read, captured two large privateers to windward of Barbadoes, and was ‘materially and distinguishedl...

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... morning, and by running in the night might escape the notice of the enemy’s privateers, who often crus’d near the entrance of the channel. Accordingl...

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...an of the last century, one of those who, when he was ruined, fitted out a privateer, and fell upon the English wherever he met them, from St. Malo to...

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...opinion will blow him round. Best wishes, meanwhile, are sent; clandestine privateers armed. Paul Jones shall equip his Bon Homme Richard: weapons, mi...

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...s of service, and been in every kind of vessel: merchant- men, men of war, privateers, and slavers; and from what I could gather from his accounts o... ... man, had been to sea twenty two years, in all kinds of vessels—men of war, privateers, slavers, and merchantmen;—everything except whalers, which a...

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... most interesting moment of his passage to England, when the alarm of a French privateer was at the height, she burst through his recital with the pro...

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...r ending, and had written too, but these letters must have been taken by a privateer in the packet that brought them; for Esmond knew nothing of their...

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...opinion will blow him round. Best wishes, meanwhile, are sent; clandestine privateers armed. Paul Jones shall equip his Bon Homme Richard: weapons, mi...