There was one box which contained many of Cashel's early letters, when he was following the wild buccaneering life of the West; and this, secured by a lock of peculiar construction, Linton had never succeeded in opening.
Linton, with a sickly attempt to laugh; "or has our buccaneering friend forgotten to stigmatize you for the folly of having known him?
That night extra watches were set on both ships, for we knew not whether the island was inhabited or otherwise, while at any time some buccaneering craft might attempt to surprise us as we lay at anchor.
By some means the two buccaneering parties had failed to co-operate, so that their ships had already been beaten off ere the land force appeared.
But there was no respite for our weary crew, for the three buccaneering craft resumed their fire.
They had thoroughly explored the cliff path that led to the now deserted buccaneering settlement, and also the road that traversed the island from north to south, the same one that we had struck on our first expedition into the interior.
More than that, should we be able, by the united work of both vessels, to capture any buccaneering craft who think to molest us, their cargoes will be equally divided betwixt all hands.
His first thought was of the disabled buccaneering vessel.
As it is not at all probable that any of the buccaneering vessels carried chaplains, opportunities of attending services must have been rare.
But it must not be supposed that because buccaneering had died out, that piracy was dead.
The pirates left on the island were eventually taken off by a buccaneering vessel, but L'Olonnois had now reached the end of the string by which the devil had allowed him to gambol on this earth for so long a time.
Now it is easy to see that all this made buccaneering a very tempting occupation.
They declared that they would retire from the buccaneering business, and that nothing would suit them better than to return to the ways of civilization and virtue.
When the wonderful success of Peter the Great became known, the buccaneering community at Tortuga was wildly excited.
Esnambuc, whom he had succeeded two years before as governor of St. Kitts, was a cadet of Normandy, who had come to the isles to try his fortune, and before becoming governor had joined in many buccaneering expeditions.
He was almost equally silent with regard to buccaneering or other adventures, and rarely spoke of anything that occurred either at home or abroad during his absence.
There, many years were passed in buccaneering expeditions to plunder the French and Spanish Settlements, until they had amassed a great quantity of treasure in money and jewels, taken in pillage and for the ransom of prisoners.
About a century ago an aged dame of the family kept school in Burian Church-town and used frequently to relate strange traditions of her buccaneering ancestor.
The gunner, a grizzled old veteran, who had been buccaneering with the great admiral, turned to his captain.
Not to be behind his neighbour in anything, he created high sounding titles, and honourable distinctions, to reward those of his sons who did well in the buccaneering trade.
The Buccaneering business was beginning to fall off, probably because other people had taken to it more thoroughly, and it is well known that competition interferes considerably with the very best of trades and professions.
They wanted to know where the Buccaneer would have been if, in his fine old Buccaneering days, he had been so hampered.
Our master's buccaneeringdays are over, and there is something so unsavoury about the name of a pirate, lads, that the word is now never used in good society.
More Buccaneering Exploits On May 3 we descried a sail.
I said thou should'st not wed that wild buccaneering adventurer, and I'll keep my word.
Reports have reached the Court of a reckless buccaneering party, of the refuse and dregs of Raleigh's freebooters, haunting the south coast; but I knew not that it was here in Sussex.
Their buccaneering had not succeeded as they had hoped.
He was, I suppose, your instigator in this buccaneering expedition of yours.
His enterprise, which had presented itself before to her imagination as a sort of buccaneering feat, not exactly reprehensible but faintly tinged with sordidness, suddenly showed itself in a new light.
The buccaneering spirit," she observed, with a faint smile of amusement.
Her statesmen, warriors, and favourites enriched themselves with sinecures, confiscations, and shares in trading and buccaneering adventures.
Whether he would have embraced a good opportunity for anything like buccaneering it is difficult to decide.
It was always reluctant to discourage the buccaneering trade, which it knew to be very lucrative.
Drake's voyages after this were sailed under commission and letters of marque, and so lose any stigma of being buccaneering adventures.
The most fervent patriot must admit that the early voyages of Drake were, to put it mildly, of a buccaneering kind, although his late voyages were more nearly akin to privateering cruises than piracy.
Dampier's first step towards buccaneering was taken when he shipped himself on a small ketch which was sailing from Port Royal to load logwood at the Bay of Campeachy.
During the period of the later Stuarts the Leeward Islands extended their influence among the smaller islands to the northwest In 1665 a buccaneering expedition from Jamaica captured St. Eustatius and Saba.
A few of them went to the northern coast of Santo Domingo, whence they carried on buccaneering enterprises against the Spaniards.
He would take no share in the profits of buccaneering exploits: but it was the same mental quality which kept him from any zeal for Causes which might drag the country into incalculable ventures.
The American of the North had come and gone like a pestilence, or like his ante-type of buccaneering days; nought remained save disappointed ambition with the one, and a bitter memory with the other.
Bear in mind that this is a buccaneering proposition, and you're first mate: remember?
The northernmost post of the Hudson Bay Company, the post on the Nelson river, or rather on the Hayes river, which flows into the same estuary, had not been taken by the French in their buccaneering expedition of 1686.
As they moved away from the battlefield, firing as they retreated, old John Watling was shot in the liver with a bullet, and fell dead there, to gobuccaneering no more.
The fair stone houses which Drake saw are long since gone, having been destroyed in one of the buccaneering raids a century later.
The "free-trade" of buccaneering throve as it had always thriven.
Examining further into the matter, he learned that the crew was plotting to seize the vessel, divide the treasure, and set out upon a buccaneering cruise.
With buccaneering ended, and piracy in process of suppression by all the naval powers, the reason for Tortugas' importance was gone.
In order to put a stop to the raids of the buccaneering hunters, the Spaniards planned an organized destruction of all the wild cattle on Hispaniola, hoping thus to drive the ravagers away.
Do we expect, and are we desirous, that future wars shall be conducted in accordance with buccaneering precedent, or with what has hitherto been the general practice of the nineteenth century?
Your naval correspondents incline to revert to buccaneering and thus to the introduction into naval coast operations of a rigour long unknown to the operations of military forces on land; but they do so with a difference.
There was a most powerful buccaneering spirit concealed under the peaceful title of this pamphlet.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "buccaneering" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
