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- noun Plural form of
flibustier .
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Examples
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Le moteur du 4×4 qui emmène les flibustiers est pulvérisé, depuis un hélico, par un tir de fusil.
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De Vaissière contributes much valuable information, especially in the first chapter, about the origins and customs of the French "flibustiers."
The Buccaneers in the West Indies in the XVII Century Clarence Henry Haring 1922
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Long and long ago, there were banished to Ohonoo all the bucaniers, flibustiers, thieves, and malefactors of the neighboring islands; who, becoming at last quite a numerous community, resolved to make a stand for their dignity, and number one among the nations of Mardi.
Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. I (of 2) Herman Melville 1855
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Dampier, and therefore must have been an asylum to the buccaneers and flibustiers [5] in the latter part of the seventeenth century, were so still to their more desperate successors, the pirates, at the beginning of the nineteenth; and for the same reason -- the facilities they offer
Autobiographical Sketches Thomas De Quincey 1822
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Le cœur tendre dans le lit de Miss Clark Prisonnière du Sultan de Jarawak En pleine terreur à Manicouagan Isolé dans la jungle birmane Emprisonnant les flibustiers L'ennemi est démasqué On a volé le collier de Civa Le Maharadjah en répondra.
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Jarawak En pleine terreur à Manicouagan Isolé dans la jungle birmane Emprisonnant les flibustiers L'ennemi est démasqué On a volé le collier de Civa Le Maharadjah en répondra.
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Philip and all, and master says they are flibustiers, and pirates, and robbers; and Mrs. Lightfoot's boy came and said Stead Kenton was shot dead at his house door, and then I was neither to have nor to hold, but I ran off here like one distraught, for I never loved anyone like you Stead. "
Under the Storm Charlotte Mary Yonge 1862
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