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corsairs
1. The onslaught of the corsairs and criminals’
2. Conan wheeled toward the gaping corsairs
3. These figures, not much longer than a man's hand, represented men, and so cleverly were they made that Conan recognized various racial characteristics in the different idols, features typical of Zingarans, Argoseans, Ophireans and Kushite corsairs
4. Conan's fame had preceded him, even into distant Keshan; his exploits as a chief of the black corsairs, those wolves of the southern coasts, had made his name known, admired and feared throughout the black kingdoms
5. 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
6. Most of these were Kushites, but some thirty of the blacks who now rested on their idle oars and stared up at the stranger with dull curiosity were from the far southern isles, the homelands of the corsairs
7. In that moment he was not king of Aquilonia; he was again lord of the black corsairs, who had hacked his way to lordship through flame and blood
8. Then, leaving the Stygian guarded by the corsairs, Conan climbed into the fisher's boat
9. The first of the Corsairs took off from Victorious, followed by Barracudas, Wildcats and Hellcats from the other carriers
10. The Corsairs remained at three thousand meters to cover the Barracudas against counter-attack
11. “We learned to build corsairs and galleons from
12. But as the moon did not show that night, and the sky was clouded, and as we knew not whereabouts we were, it did not seem to us a prudent thing to make for the shore, as several of us advised, saying we ought to run ourselves ashore even if it were on rocks and far from any habitation, for in this way we should be relieved from the apprehensions we naturally felt of the prowling vessels of the Tetuan corsairs, who leave Barbary at nightfall and are on the Spanish coast by daybreak, where they commonly take some prize, and then go home to sleep in their own houses
13. 'The Corsairs of Umbar!' men shouted
14. 'The Corsairs of Umbar! Look! The
15. Corsairs of Umbar are coming! So Belfalas is taken, and the Ethir, and
16. The Corsairs are upon us! It is the last stroke of doom!'
17. But they were all shouting corsairs and wouldn't listen to me
18. It’s not unknown for certain coastal grandes to sponsor corsairs, even now
19. “Can you blame them? Anglés corsairs killed tens of thousands of their ancestors during the Rape of La Merced in 370
20. “When they saw the merry blaze we set, with the Melisandre still not captured, the corsairs panicked
21. Intending that it serve as refuge for the great port’s inhabitants against future onslaughts by Anglaterrano and Gallego corsairs as well as a stronghold, she dug a network of passageways and chambers deep into the white limestone of the bluffs at Bahía Alegre’s east end
22. Corsairs; and for that reason, sing it con spirito
23. Though by the repeated bloody chastisements they have received at the hands of European cruisers, the audacity of these corsairs has of late been somewhat repressed; yet, even at the present day, we occasionally hear of English and American vessels, which, in those waters, have been remorselessly boarded and pillaged
24. What is it we do for a license to go into the Mediterranean? Do we not pay an annual tribute to Algiers for liberty to navigate the sea safer from its corsairs? Have we not an undoubted right to navigate the Mediterranean? Surely; and yet we pay annually a tribute for permission to do it—and why? Because the happiness and interest of the nation are promoted by it
25. On the occasion of our commerce being depredated upon by the Barbary corsairs, the question first came up
