freebooter

• Seriff Sahib is a great freebooter, and dispatches his retainers to attack the weak tribes here for the sake of the slaves, calculating, on the rajah's presumed weakness, that he can do so with impunity. —  The Expedition to Borneo of H.M.S. Dido For the Suppression of Piracy
• The latest tidings of the freebooter were in accordance with the information so reluctantly given by Dougal, and were to the effect that Rob Roy had sent away the larger part of his clan, and was seeking escape alone, or with very few in his company, trusting most likely to his superior knowledge of the passes Meanwhile Dougal their guide answered with a natural impatience to all complaints that he was leading them by difficult or dangerous roads If," he said, with an appearance of reason, "gentlemans were seeking the Red Gregarach, they must expect some wee danger. —  Red Cap Tales Stolen from the Treasure Chest of the Wizard of the North
• Angry words, followed by a scuffle, ensued: the freebooter was overpowered; for sixty men, armed, entered before he could strike a blow Rob Roy was carried towards Edinburgh. —  Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745 Volume II.
• The French adventurers, however, seem always to have restricted the word "boucanier" to its proper signification, that of a hunter and curer of meat; and when they developed into corsairs, by a curious contrast they adopted an English name and called themselves "filibustiers," which is merely the French sailor's way of pronouncing the English word "freebooter. —  The Buccaneers in the West Indies in the XVII Century
• I am desired to deliver a brief panegyric on this celebrated freebooter, and I go behind the modern definition of the word "panegyric" (as a pompous and ornamented piece of rhetoric) to its original significance, which was, as I take it, the reminder, to a great assembly of persons, of the reason why they have been brought together in the name of a man long dead. —  Some Diversions of a Man of Letters

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