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    corsair


    1. So I did some research, and it seems most information about anything other than the Corsair, is conveniently not stored in ARIES' memory


    2. As we walk around the Acropolis, I begin a conversation that is hopefully a start of a new, candid relationship with my son, "Apollo, I realize you are aware why Seth and the other members of the Corsair will be here tomorrow


    3. " Apollo maintains his silence as I continue, "You know the Corsair was once part of Alcazar and there are ties that reach across to both sides


    4. Then I spot our Corsair guests, seated in the first row behind the students


    5. I hope the news of his departure for Corsair Territory doesn't give the people of Alcazar any misguided feels, like something that will make them feel insecure with his future leadership


    6. What is your name?" It sounds as if there is nothing separating them at all, and Apollo almost tells her the truth before remembering the arrangement he made with the Corsair brothers,


    7. The girl goes on to tell him about how she was in the usual prison interrogation room, and the Corsair were grilling her again


    8. He also remembers how Antonia said Misery was accused of crimes against the Corsair but yet, they couldn't identify her


    9. She oddly seems to refer to herself and the Corsair in the third person, "They took away your abilities


    10. The Corsair believe it's a permanent condition, but it's merely temporary

    11. House Caravine governed lands in Corsair to the southwest that were mostly farms and villages though the nobles lived behind high stone walls in a fortified town known as Auglem Watch


    12. Tobin was pointing to the figurines placed over the regions surrounding Tentor and Corsair, when Adem entered the tent with a peculiar smile to his eyes


    13. North of the ‘rising stars’ put them close to the Mithrim Mountains on the border of Corsair


    14. The mountains would provide a temporary foothold, though the people of Corsair would consider the invasion an act of war


    15. The following week Tobin’s army was on the move again, heading southwest for Corsair, those lands still filled with volatile revolutionaries


    16. It was the second week of summer when they crossed over into the borders of Corsair, where they met with a small portion of the farmer army, some six thousand men, mostly farmers armed with spears or pitchforks though many also wore swords at their hips


    17. A tall corsair, bounding over the rail, was met in midair by the Cimmerian's great sword, which sheared him cleanly through the torso, so that his body fell one way and his legs another


    18. In the stress of the moment he grasped a corsair by the neck and shook him so violently that blood from the man's wounds spattered all near them


    19. I've been a mercenary captain, a corsair, akozak, a penniless vagabond, a general—hell, I've been everything except a king, and I may be that, before I die


    20. In swift-moving scenes the pageant of his life passed fleetingly before his mental eye—a panorama wherein moved shadowy figures which were himself, in many guises and conditions—a skin-clad barbarian; a mercenary swordsman in horned helmet and scale-mail corselet; a corsair in a dragon-prowed galley that trailed a crimson wake of blood and pillage along southern coasts; a captain of hosts in burnished steel, on a rearing black charger; a king on a golden throne with the lion banner flowing above, and throngs of gay-hued courtiers and ladies on their knees

    21. Strong beyond the comprehension of civilized man, he had broken the neck of a python in a fiendish battle on the Stygian coast, in his corsair days


    22. The black spoke in a sea-coast dialect, and Conan replied; he had learned the jargon while a corsair on the coasts of Kush


    23. 'Is he mad? If he is discovered here we are ruined! They will hang a man who shelters or trades with a corsair as quickly as they'll hang the corsair himself! What if the governor should learn of our past connections with him?'


    24. The Return of the Corsair


    25. A wilder and more barbaric figure never trod the bridge of a ship, and in this ferocious corsair few of the courtiers of Aquilonia would have recognized their king


    26. Conan knew the place of old; he had hidden there before, in his corsair days


    27. They would slay him merely for being a stranger; if he were recognized as Amra, the corsair chief who had swept their coasts with steel and flame—an involuntary shudder twitched Conan's broad shoulders


    28. Frank collected four airplanes during his lifetime, including a Lockheed Constellation fully decked out and loaded, an old Ford TriMotor which carried 10 passengers on short hops, a single engine Corsair for personal flying, and a converted Catalina flying boat


    29. For two hours they raced across the sky in the dark blue Corsair, eventually dropping down to a dust airstrip near Indian Springs


    30. could be more perfect thanthe "Canción del Pirata"? Like Byron in the "Corsair," heextols the

    31. Kate bought a yacht, an eighty-foot motor sailer she named the Corsair, and she and Tony cruised the waters along the coast of Maine


    32. 'Tony, how large is the Corsair?"


    33. The two of them walked through the large, formal gardens toward the dock where the Corsair was tied up


    34. He cut the motor and made the line fast to the Corsair, the large motor sailer


    35. The Corsair was there, safely moored


    36. Did you check the Corsair?"


    37. seewhat a very ugly face the Corsair (nickname) makes when he


    38. On this expedition was taken the galley called the Prize, whose captain was a son of the famous corsair Barbarossa


    39. On hearing this the general sprang upon the gangway crying, "Now then, my sons, don't let her give us the slip! It must be some Algerine corsair brigantine that the watchtower signals to us


    40. Beneath awnings, tourists browse over blue-and-white-striped sweaters and framed watercolors of corsair ships; a father sings as he puts his arm around a daughter

    41. He was also barely half Ahbaht’s age, with the sort of corsair confidence the commander of a sixteen-gun schooner required


    42. His great-grandfather, Abraham Petrovitch Hannibal, was seized on the coast of Africa when eight years of age by a corsair, and carried a slave to Constantinople


    43. Was it competent, he asked, to the Government to receive as testimony the statement of the commander or crew of an American corsair? It was well known, too, he remarked, that the high wages which had been paid to the crews of the privateers, was one of the reasons why the American Navy was in some degree unmanned


    44. And, was it not a different question, whether we should interpose our authority between the subject of a foreign nation and his Government, when that subject is fighting your battles, bleeding on the deck of your public ship, at twelve dollars a month, and when he is decoyed into a corsair by the temptation of eighty, fifty, or forty dollars a month? There is a difference, sir, said Mr


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    Synonyms for "corsair"

    corsair barbary pirate privateer rover pirate sea dog freebooter

    "corsair" definitions

    a pirate along the Barbary Coast


    a swift pirate ship (often operating with official sanction)