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1. He had eaten no fruit, nor joined in the horse-play of his mates; all his faculties were occupied with watching the buccaneer chief
2. She distinctly heard the buccaneer grunt as he struck, and saw the victim's tawny eyes roll up in sudden agony; blood and entrails gushed out over the driven blade
3. The buccaneer dropped with his skull crushed, but so awkwardly the blow was dealt, the blade shivered in the giant's hand
4. But what are you doing here? I am the only man in Argos who knew that the king of Aquilonia was once Conan the buccaneer, in the old days
5. It happened when the Lake Buccaneer was north of Powell River with its huge,
6. The Buccaneer, its relatively short wings flapping and protesting the sudden abuse, flattened out ten metres above the green water and swept quickly between the islands
7. Expertly, he raised the Buccaneer over a ridge of trees at the end of a bay, and immediately swept across the water with less than a metre to spare
8. The Buccaneer hurtled along perilously narrow waterways
9. Curran, still uncomfortably damp, sat next to Anna in the rear seat and the Buccaneer took off again heading for Port Hardy
10. As the Lake Buccaneer took off and headed south for Vancouver, Patty told her
11. "We'll be in Port Hardy before dawn," said Bird-dog as they climbed aboard the Lake Buccaneer and prepared for take-off in the cold, almost freezing pre-dawn air
12. "The Lake Buccaneer, was sabotaged
13. "Schacter was spotted at the seaplane dock an hour before Miller and Husak died in the Buccaneer," said the inspector
14. She died in that little seaplane, you know? The Buccaneer? Vancouver harbour?"
15. You need not transport a bird on your shoulder, have a peg leg or a hook to be a buccaneer
16. lawless liberty of the buccaneer
17. The buccaneer on the wave might relinquish his calling, and become at once, if he chose, a man of probity and piety on land; nor, even in the full career of his reckless life, was he regarded as a personage with whom it was disreputable to traffic, or casually associate
18. This resolution expressed the tenacity of his character, the remorse of that subtle conjugal infidelity through which his wife was no longer the sole mistress of his thoughts, something of his father's imaginative weakness, and something, too, of the spirit of a buccaneer throwing a lighted match into the magazine rather than surrender his ship
19. “Well—” says she, “when Jack Rackham sees that Mark Read the Brave Buccaneer is really Mary Read the Brave Buccaneeress, he forthwith stops bein’ jealous, the bloody Fool—fer I had more good Lovin’ with Mary than with any Pyrate that e’er sail’d the Spanish Main! An’ mark ye, I’ve bedded most o’ ’em—Stede Bonnet, Calico Jack, all but the dead Cap’n Kidd himself an’ Blackbeard, o’ course—because he ne’er washt in his Life an’ me Nose is as tender as me ye-know-what!”
20. “Water!” he cried to the nearest buccaneer, and when the fellow only stared at him: “Water! bring water—water!” His hand was hysterically jerking at a pistol in his belt
21. “Who was this young buccaneer?” he asked crossly
22. A buccaneer moved to lift the body
23. You made yourself a buccaneer
24. He is represented as a maddened savage on ’Change, and a reckless debauchee at leisure, who analyzes the operations of finance in the language of a monte dealer describing a prize fight, and whose notion of a successful career is something between a gambler, a revolutionist and a buccaneer
25. And what real benefit has resulted from it to the Government? Has a picaroon or a buccaneer ever been chastised by them? If they have, he had no recollection of the case; he had seen indeed paragraphs in the newspapers mentioning that the frigate President, or some one of the vessels, had sailed from the navy-yard to Norfolk, from thence to New York, and finally arrived safe at Boston; but for what purpose he was totally ignorant, unless, indeed, it was to sail back again, and furnish the materials for a new article for the newspapers; and for these eminent services, the American people have already paid about $30,000,000
1. Containing divers Dialogues betwixt Lancelot, Horatio, and our Heroine in which the History goes backward somewhat and we learn what these Gentlemen have been doing whilst the Queen of our Narrative was extending her Education and Adventures; thereto is added a brief History of Buccaneering for the Reader who is bent upon the noble Cause of Self-Improvement as well as the more pleasant one of Entertainment
2. “Begging your Pardon, Captain Mine,” says Horatio with heavy Irony, “but I’ll not sail heedless into Danger—I, who am the very Tacitus of Buccaneering!”
1. This, too, used to happen almost constantly in Hispaniola, while it was infested by the buccaneers, and before the settlement, improvement, and populousness of the French plantations ( which now extend round the coast of almost the whole western half of the island) had given some value to the cattle of the Spaniards, who still continue to possess, not only the eastern part of the coast, but the whole inland mountainous part of the country
2. But Bêlit would not take the time to make the long cruise southward to the island kingdoms where she recruited her buccaneers
3. What human hands could rear such a mammoth pile as now met his eyes, in the few weeks which had elapsed? Besides, the buccaneers who roamed Vilayet ceaselessly would have learned of any work going on on such a stupendous scale, and would have informed the kozaks
4. They raided the shipping, and harried the Zingaran coast towns, just as the Zingaran buccaneers did, but these dignified their profession by calling themselves Freebooters, while they dubbed the Barachans pirates
5. Voices echoed along the shore, as the silence reassured the buccaneers
6. But before he went to warn the unsuspecting buccaneers, he wished to investigate the fate of the boy
7. From the court where lay the rousing buccaneers he heard their groans growing louder, beginning to be mingled with incoherent curses
8. The buccaneers weaved drunkenly, they swore incoherently; they were addled and bewildered, but they grasped their swords and advanced with a ferocity not dimmed in the slightest by the fact that they did not understand what it was all about
9. Mixed and mingled in that melee, the buccaneers could not use their superior agility to the best advantage, and many were too stupid from their drugged sleep to avoid blows aimed at them
10. Unreasoning, instinctive fear held the buccaneers, making them urge their agonized bodies and reeling brains to greater effort; what they feared they knew not, but they did know that in that abominable smooth green ribbon was a menace to body and to soul
11. It was not only legitimate trade that flowed into Messantia; smugglers and buccaneers played their part
12. He had also sailed with the Zingaran buccaneers, and even with those wild black corsairs that swept up from the far south to harry the northern coasts, and this put him beyond the pale of any law
13. Again he wore the buccaneers uniform
14. He is the one who sends help so the buccaneers are foiled in finding Jim and his mother, he instantly organizes the entire adventure, a secret cabal between the squire himself and Jim: as a secret council to run and get rich fast before anyone else does it!! So they can all become fat! And gouty red faced corrupt Olde English landlords living off their ill-gained gold and living in ease for the rest of their life while beggars starve to death in front of them and they do not give one cent to help any of the poor
15. ‘Why am I related with these things anyway? What’s the point in me having the Bio-RAM and the Dinos searching the one with the RAM? What are these buccaneers up to and who’s behind them? I knew, they were vying for something else beyond what actually seemed to be
16. ‘Why am I related with these things anyway? What’s the point in me having the Bio-RAM and the Dinos searching the one with the RAM? What are these buccaneers up to and who’s behind them? I knew they were vying for something else beyond what actually seemed, but for what? Was it me? If it was me, did they already know that I’m the one with the RAM? If they knew, then why are they still searching for the one? In case, they didn’t know, then why are they still fighting me? But they know now, don’t they? Though I faked it, it actually turned out to be true
17. "Till the moment," Ned Land answered, "when some frigate that's faster or smarter than the Abraham Lincoln captures this den of buccaneers, then hangs all of us by the neck from the tip of a mainmast yardarm!"
18. youth, just as three hundred years ago the wealth of our Spanish fathers was a serious object to the rest of Europe—as represented by the bold buccaneers
19. “Like many another Sea-struck Lad, bound to a Home he hated, a Father he fretted o’er, a Mother to make him mutter under his Breath, I read Dampier’s New Voyage Round the World an’ dreamt o’ driftin’ from a Jamaican Plantation to Campeachy, o’er the Isthmus with Buccaneers, back to Virginia, ’round Cape Horn, across the Pacific to the Philippines, an’ thence to the East Indies, Land o’ incredible Riches, Jewels, an’ Spices, an’ strange slant-eyed brown-skinn’d Boys in Turbans an’ with bare Breasts (for e’en then, at the tender Age o’ Thirteen, I had forsworn all Womankind, havin’ been cruelly spurn’d by me first True Love in Oxfordshire! An’ lucky ’twas, too, fer a Boy bound to Sea fer seven Years!)
20. “I’d love to write a Book of Buccaneers,” Horatio said, his Eyes misting o’er with the Dream of Lit’ry Fame (from which e’en clever he was not immune), “for in a Book, a Man is judged not by the Colour of his Skin, but by the Colour of the Page, White as ’tis
21. “Why do they call ’em Buccaneers?” I askt, “for I have heard the Word, and always remarkt upon its Strangeness
22. Where there is Profit, there are Profiteers; thus the Buccaneers were born! They came as Hunters first—shipwreckt Seamen, Runaway Slaves, Felons, Debtors, ev’ry sort of Castaway—they took up Hunting as their Livelihood
23. But the Spanish hate ’em most, and e’en Today when you hear the Word Demonio or Corsario Luterano from a Spaniard’s Lips, he says it and then spits upon the Ground—for so they also term these Buccaneers
24. When Britannia thus made Peace with Spain, the Buccaneers began to see their Doom and now the greatest Age of Pyracy is past
25. The first Ship to reach the Prey attackt in the Time-honour’d Pyrate Fashion, invented, so Horatio said, by the Buccaneers, or Brethren of the Coast
26. There was the Fencing Master, the Dancing Master, an Indian Hunter who’d taught her how to hunt and shoot and e’en skin her Prey, a wealthy Planter or two, and innumerable Buccaneers! ’Twas most curious that tho’ her Life had been adventurous in the extream, she was able to bore one quite because of the dreary Manner in which she told of it
27. In this Epick I told all I knew of Sailing Ships and the Spanish Main, of the Travels of a Group of Valiant Pyrates call’d the Merry Men (whom ev’ryone believ’d were mere Inventions of the Poet’s Fancy), of the famous Female Pyrate, Anne Bonny, as well as Slavers, Slaves, the Buccaneers, the Pyrate Round upon the Eastern Seas—which was by then, the latter 1720s, entering the Realm of Legend (and consequently, becoming more and more the Subject of Books and Poems)
28. In the 2003 Super Bowl, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers were able to intercept five Oakland Raider passes by first studying and then concentrating on the eye movements and body language of Oakland’s quarterback
29. Sometimes when the buccaneers are not in the way of getting wild beef, they stock their ships with these and so sail
30. “You promised to speak with me of those same buccaneers,” Henry begged; “they whom you call the Brethren of the Coast
31. “Are there any buccaneers of note in this town?” Henry asked
32. France had the good of her wayward children at heart, for she sent out twelve hundred women to Tortuga to be the wives of buccaneers
33. They had got their name, these buccaneers, of a time when they were nothing more than cattle-hunters
34. The numberless vessels of the Spanish colonies were nearly all driven from the sea by the fierce buccaneers
35. As the rich shipping was driven from the sea, the buccaneers must be taking villages, and then even towns with forts
36. As more and more of the buccaneers flocked to his command, his dream solidified
37. The buccaneers were penniless from their long inactivity
38. And so, when Campeche and Puerto Bello and Maracaibo fell to the buccaneers, the merchants of the Cup of Gold shrugged their shoulders and went about the usual business
39. Horrible stories began to grow up—how the buccaneers were not men at all, but animal things with heads like crocodiles and lions’ claws
40. Pizarro’s army would have been halfway across the isthmus, by this, to meet the oncoming buccaneers
41. Potent though his name was, the buccaneers would have recoiled from such an impregnable objective
42. The buccaneers sat lifelessly on their benches
43. The buccaneers straggled out in an unkempt column, while ahead of them a swarm of busy Indians, drawing energy from their sanguinary dream, hacked and slashed out the trail through the jungle with their heavy knives
44. Onward the buccaneers drove themselves toward Panama
45. In the horror of the stampede the buccaneers had charged
46. Little knots of buccaneers pursued them, spitting those who fell exhausted
47. Panama was dying in a bed of flame, and the buccaneers were murdering the people in the streets
48. A few buccaneers were poking about in the ashes, looking for melted plate which might have escaped the search of the night before
49. The buccaneers were rioting in Panama
50. The troupe was surrounded on all sides by a mob of buccaneers
