Here he was waited for by the corsair Curtogali, who, with fifteen ships off the coast and an ambush on shore, was ready to carry him off.
From this date he was the foremost corsair in the Mediterranean, and the feats which were performed by him showed that the Padishah had not erred in his selection.
Had Doria gone in and attacked at once, the fate of the corsair had been sealed; the policy of delay adopted by the Christian admiral was his salvation.
His turban gone, his great curved scimitar red to the hilt, the undaunted corsair fought his last fight as became the terror of his name.
His reception of thecorsair lacked, however, nothing in cordiality.
Of these, however, there was scarce one who owed allegiance to Dragut; the warriors of this chief neither gave nor accepted quarter, as they feared the wrath of the terrible corsair even more than death itself.
The corsair was as good as his word to his Spanish captives, and restored to them their liberty.
Notwithstanding, however, all the canvas the Zodiac could set, the corsair still came up with her hand over hand.
And the Corsair lured them all to their destruction.
A dispute as to an alleged Venetian corsair captured by the Genoese ended in a riot.
The Seigneur de Dolhain, who, like many other refugee nobles, had acquired much distinction in this roving corsair life, had for a season acted as Admiral for the Prince.
Haedo sets forth that a young Arab who had embraced Christianity and had been baptized with the name of Geronimo was captured by a Moorish corsair in 1569 and taken to Algiers.
Repeated attempts were made by various European nations to subdue the pirates, and in 1816 the city was bombarded by a British squadron under Lord Exmouth, assisted by Dutch men-of-war, and the corsair fleet burned.
And now, of all that seaward fare, What ship of any port is there But would dip her flag to a black corsair Ere she'd signal such as we!
The Florentine corsair sailed once more, Out into the West o'er a rainy sea, In search of another wonderful shore For the crown of France and the Fleur-de-lis.
To take the old corsair into their confidence now would not be advisable, for, on account of his mother's near presence, he would scarcely consent to enter into the peril.
Leibnitz was soon undeceived by Nicolas Thoynard, who explained that the corsair in question was Guillaume de Casanove, vice-admiral of France, and Leibnitz disavowed the imputation upon the Genoese navigator in a subsequent volume.
However, they exempt The Corsair from all resemblance to any thing, though I rather wonder at his escape.
You are to do as you please about the smaller poems; but I think removing them now from The Corsair looks like fear; and if so, you must allow me not to be pleased.
On second and third thoughts, the withdrawing the small poems from The Corsair (even to add to Childe Harold) looks like shrinking and shuffling after the fuss made upon one of them by the Tories.
The Corsair is copied, and now at Lord Holland's; but I wish Mr. Gifford to have it to-night.
Footnote 12: It will be recollected that he had announced The Corsair as "the last production with which he should trespass on public patience for some years.
The officers held a consultation, and as it was well known that a Barbary corsair had been committing several acts of exceptional violence, hopes were entertained that the stranger would prove to be that particular vessel.
We attacked them; your Majesty's soldiers fought with great spirit, as they always do, and the corsair galleys went to the bottom.
This was a new addition to our affliction; but it would have been greater had not the corsair taken this Portuguese ship, which fortunately detained them until you came to our rescue.
When the corsair promises masses and candles, it goes ill with the galley.
The corsair painted every part of his ship a dead black, and one dark night, under black sails, he slipped into Messina harbour.
Under sail and oar a corsair could generally defy pursuit.
These fugitives regarded as already executed that of which their fear persuaded them; and they told the corsair that the governor had commanded that all the Sangleys should be slain, not only the traders but those who were living in this city.
The people who followed this corsair amounted to over a million of men of war alone.
In two minutes the corsairwas alongside of the "Rose," and the fierce crew were climbing up her sides.
The corsairat first did not keep her course direct for the ship, but rowed round her, shooting arrows and casting javelins.
He aimed at sovereignty on a large scale, and, Corsair as he was by nature, he wished for settled power almost as much as he delighted in adventure.
The port of Tunis offered all that a Corsair could wish.
Barbarossa was meditating the surrender of Toulon to the Emperor, and, improbable as it was, some colour was given to the King's anxiety by the amicable relations which seemed to subsist between the Genoese Corsair and his Barbary rival.
It was ill sleeping around Toulon when the Corsair press-gangs were abroad.
Among the captains who continued to make the name of Corsair terrible to Christian ears, Murād Reïs holds the foremost place; indeed, he belongs to the order of great Corsairs.
The lamentations of his victims roused Doria, who had the good fortune to surprise the Corsair as he was greasing his keels in the strait behind Jerba.
He kept his Turks for fighting, and made the Christian prisoners work the oars; such was the custom of every Corsair down to the present century, and the Christian navies were similarly propelled by Mohammedan slaves.
To complete the chronology it may be added that these were succeeded in the sixteenth century by the Corsair Pashas (afterwards Deys) of Algiers, the Turkish Pashas or Beys of Tunis, and the Sherīfs or Emperors of Morocco.
Calling off his men from the illusive battery, the Corsair is off for the Archipelago: by good luck he picks up a fine galley on the way, which was conveying news of the reinforcements coming to Doria.
But Doria singly will of the corsair With his own forces purge the briny flood: So that I see each continent and isle Quake at his name, from Calpe to the Nile.
The filibuster, corsair as he is, forestalls the mulattress and pours out some iced sherry for Angela.
There is not a corsair who would dare even to approach me, seeing me so bravely accompanied.
Matters attained such a pitch, the audacity of the daring corsair was crowned with such success, that the rumour of it reached France.
The Seagull was a vessel of ninety tons, neatly fitted up, and carrying four small iron guns of eight to the pound, which caused her to bear a greater resemblance with a corsair than a peaceful coaster.
And "will the churls last out till we Have duly hardened bones and thews For scouring leagues of swamp and sea Of braggart mobs and corsair crews?
Shortly afterwards several were put on board an Algerine corsair to serve as slaves.
The lawlessness of the corsair again broke forth by the seizure, in 1812, of the brig Edwin, of Salem, and the enslavement of her crew.
It turned out to be a French corsair from Rochelle out for plunder, for when it came closer it suddenly fired two guns that took terrible effect and wrecked their vessel.
Once aboard they were told that if they had been courteous enough to reply to the question shouted from the corsair as to what port they were bound for, their own vessel would still have been intact.
Eagerly did the corsair and his men watch for the Spanish ships, the heavier vessels lying at anchor, but the light, swift galleys ranging and questing afar so that none might be missed.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "corsair" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: buccaneer; galleon; junk; pirate; privateer; robber; thief; vessel; viking; yacht
