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- noun Plural form of
Algerine .
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Examples
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A Dey once said to an English consul, "The Algerines are a company of rogues, and I am their captain."
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 73, November, 1863 Various
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We remember the Dorr War, and how bitterly the "Algerines," as they were called, were reviled.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 48, October, 1861 Various
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"Algerines;" their Quarrel with Foreign Sailors, 74
Old New England Traits George Lunt 1844
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We called them "Algerines," from which epithet, more opprobrious than probably just, our estimate of their pretensions to civilization may be inferred.
Old New England Traits George Lunt 1844
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They are birds of prey who feed upon one another; the Algerines, natives of Morocco, and
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The actual force of the Algerines is but two fifty-gun ships, five of about forty, and four of thirty guns; the rest are not worth mentioning.
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By a Numidian — one of the country of the Algerines!
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They showed me a pass from a captain of a ship declaring that they were Algerines who had been taken by the Spaniards and made slaves.
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They showed me a pass from a captain of a ship declaring that they were Algerines who had been taken by the Spaniards and made slaves.
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All the books mention the first case; the second was explained to me by an unfortunate man, whose tongue had been cut out by the Algerines for having, with several of his companions, formed a plot to escape from captivity.
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