swashbuckle

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The dashing musketeers - and one plucky kid sister - swashbuckle their way through nefarious villains, international intrigue, and exotic ladies.

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  • The dashing musketeers - and one plucky kid sister - swashbuckle their way through nefarious villains, international intrigue, and exotic ladies. —  Playbill.com : News
  • First spotted by Columbus in 1502, Guanaja was a sprawling haven for brawling pirates of the 17th Century, including the infamous Blackbeard, Barbarosa & Sir Henry Morgan -- you know, those bearded, growling miscreants that Errol Flynn used to swashbuckle over the railing into Davey Jones 'Locker. —  "news" via big sleep in Google Reader
  • The plot is not especially important - it's the usual swashbuckle of foreign spies, raging bosses and a dumbo President (plus a lot of pepped-up action sequences and special effects). —  The First Post: Latest
  • Adventure on the high seas, the swashbuckle of life - the successful underdog to the wealth of the great nations and the robber barons of industry, taking booty, but most of all bringing defeat to an arrogance of power and wealth: —  New Verse News
  • What if he did swashbuckle? —  The Iron Heel
 

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