corsair

• “That other "corsair" -- as the Spaniards called him -- that other charming and heroic shape in England's chequered chronicle of chivalry and crime -- famous in arts and arms, politics, science, literature, endowed with so many of the gifts by which men confer lustre on their age and country, whose name was already a part of”

  History of the United Netherlands, 1595-96

• “On the 18th of June the Surveillante captures an English corsair, which is a joy, but they learn from her the fall of Charleston and the surrender of Lincoln, which gives food for thought.”

  Rochambeau and the French in America. I. From Unpublished Documents. II

• “Still, even if you hadn't, it might have come to the same thing in the long run, for the corsair is a large one, and might have taken us even if you had made her out as she rounded the point. ”

  When London Burned : a Story of Restoration Times and the Great Fire

• “But what of the people of the town of Baltimore in Ireland, all carried off by "corsair" raiders in a single night?”

  THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS

• “That other "corsair" -- as the Spaniards called him -- that other charming and heroic shape in England's chequered chronicle of chivalry and crime -- famous in arts and arms, politics, science, literature, endowed with so many of the gifts by which men confer lustre on their age and country, whose name was already a part of England's eternal glory, whose tragic destiny was to be her undying shame—Raleigh, the soldier, sailor, scholar, statesman, poet, historian, geographical discoverer, planter of empires yet unborn—was also present, helping to organize the somewhat chaotic elements of which the chief Anglo-Dutch enterprise for this year against—the Spanish world-dominion was compounded.”

  PG Edition of Netherlands series — Complete

• “Such was the case; and when the captain did turn out at breakfast time he had heard the first mate’s version of the affair, and as the felucca had now quite disappeared below the horizon, altogether pooh-poohed Tom's account of having recognised Mohammed's "corsair," even although Charley backed him up by his statement of what he had heard say in conversation with the stranger.”

  Picked up at Sea The Gold Miners of Minturne Creek

• “She was an outlaw; men called her a "corsair," and spoke of Semmes the captain as though he had been some ruffianly Blackbeard sailing the black flag with skull and cross bones for his grisly ensign.”

  Recollections of a naval life : including the cruises of the Confederate States steamers, "Sumter" and "Alabama",

• “On this, Duchambon sent Morpain, captain of a privateer, or "corsair," to oppose the landing.”

  A Half-Century of Conflict - Volume II

• “To tell the truth, the corsair was in a quandary; so, when the smoke of the man-of-war steamer had melted into the air, he summoned Captain Harding and the rest on deck again, and having their gags removed, interrogated them once more.”

  Picked up at Sea The Gold Miners of Minturne Creek

• “It may seem strange that the corsair, who had spared the lives of the captain and the remainder of the crew of the Muscadine, and appeared really on such jovial terms with his prisoners up to the moment of his going below with Captain Harding to look at the ship's papers, should all at once change his demeanour and come out in his true colours; but, the matter is easy enough of explanation.”

  Picked up at Sea The Gold Miners of Minturne Creek

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