privateersman

The privateersman was a gentleman adventurer, a protected pirate, a social highwayman of the waters.

Famous Privateersmen and Adventurers of the Sea Their rovings, cruises, escapades, and fierce battling upon the ocean for patriotism and for treasure Charles Haven Ladd Johnston 1910

A pirate, indeed, in those days, was synonymous with the individual who was termed a privateersman at the time of the Napoleonic wars.

The Cruise of the Nonsuch Buccaneer Harry Collingwood 1886

I do not, therefore, consider that privateering is worse than any other species of warfare, or that the privateersman is a whit more reckless or brutal than soldiers or men-of-war's men in the hour of victory in the king's service. "

The Privateersman Frederick Marryat 1820

Elijah West, father's great-grandfather, was a privateersman in the Revolution.

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On the very day of these achievements he despatched Theopompus, a Milesian privateersman, to Lacedaemon to report what had taken place.

Hellenica 2007

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

Dombey and Son 2007

And this, too, is worth noting: that the buccaneer by sea, the privateersman, through long practice in endurance, is able to live at the expense of far superior powers.

The Cavalry General 2007

Hazard, who had commanded a privateersman during the Revolution, purchased the place from "Citizen" Edmond Charles Genet, the first

As I Remember Recollections of American Society during the Nineteenth Century Marian Gouverneur

Street he and his gang one evening pressed a privateersman -- an insult keenly resented by the master of the ship.

The Press-Gang Afloat and Ashore

Many were the speculations as to the probability of capturing the saucy privateersman; for by this time all the sail that the convoy could possibly set was spread in chase of the enemy, who as yet had made no attempt to fly, although apparently but a stone's throw ahead of us.

The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, February 1844 Volume 23, Number 2 Various