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He watched the privateer's progress on his external cameras where he could, tracked him by electrical field distortions where he couldn't.

New Race Joe Sullivan 2010

An injury places her aboard the privateer's ship, and soon she's on her way to exploring a sensual ride that makes her weak in the knees.

Darlene's Digest Darlene 2006

An injury places her aboard the privateer's ship, and soon she's on her way to exploring a sensual ride that makes her weak in the knees.

Archive 2006-11-01 Darlene 2006

When considering the resources available to the nation for the defense of commerce, historians often forget the potential for arming the merchant vessels themselves, which were otherwise completely defenseless against a privateer's cannons.

"Now We Find It Necessary to Take Care of Ourselves": Citizen Involvement and Influence in the Creation of the United States Navy: 1796-1798 2000

Sharpe would be leaving, and when Sharpe was gone Captain Bampfylde would show his men how a privateer's crew was treated.

Sharpe's Siege Cornwell, Bernard 1987

The first of the allegations I admitted to be true; the second had been disproved by the privateer's boatmen; and, as to the third, I at once insisted upon the party's taking torches and accompanying me to the graveyard, where, I told them, they would find -- as, in truth, they did -- the valuables this villain had charged me with stealing.

Captain Canot or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver Theodore Canot

He was usually addressed as Captain, this visitor; and had been a pilot, or a skipper, or a privateer's man, or all three perhaps; and was a very salt looking man indeed.

Ten Girls from Dickens Kate Dickinson Sweetser

Gifted with unlimited boldness, Breakes called in at Gibraltar and requested the Governor to grant him a British privateer's commission, which the Governor did "for a consideration."

The Pirates' Who's Who Giving Particulars Of The Lives and Deaths Of The Pirates And Buccaneers Philip Gosse 1919

He took the command of a privateer's boat with a crew of twelve men, to which he gave the name of Mazzini, and by the aid of which he soon helped himself to a larger and better-armed vessel, a prize taken from the enemy.

Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 2 of 8 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History 1906

The abolition of privateering was a long step in the right direction, for the privateer's motive was mainly plunder, and the whole business was really close kin to piracy.

Our War with Spain for Cuba's Freedom Trumbull White 1904