Neither tyrant nor common wealth maintained a force sufficient to resist them; and if other northern mercenaries were engaged to oppose them, it was only to recruit the standards of the freebooters with deserters.
Mr. Lance Harriott felt a momentary moral exaltation in declaring truthfully that he was not one of a notorious band of mountain freebooters known in the district under that name.
She's stampeded whales afore now, and sloshed round with pirates and freebooters in and outer the Spanish Main, and across lots from Marcelleys where she was rared.
Somewhere in that year he determines to join the band of freebooters under Ramirez, which was then devastating the eastern provinces.
Indians Freebootersof the Plateau Province Fremont's Peak, height of and view from Garfield, J.
These are the great Freebooters of the Plateau Province--the enemies of other tribes and of the white men.
It is difficult to realize that the dignified, sober, and orderly men who now fill our regiments are of the same stock as the savage freebooters whose name, a hundred years ago, was the terror of Northern India.
These lawless freebooters soon swept all the groves from the face of every country they occupied with their troops, and they never attempted to renew them or encourage the renewal.
Even at that time we had a great caravan trade with China and Persia, but our merchants suffered severely from the depredations of the Cossack freebooters roaming over the steppes of Siberia.
The Diplomat hesitated for a moment, then said with a smile: "The freebooters found it necessary to fight after they had once ill-treated the natives.
In one of the numerous attempts made by the freebootersto reach the Great Land, they fell in with some Japanese castaways who claimed to have found gold and silver there in abundance.
And he alone of the survivors of that band of freebooters who rode so fearlessly and madly into Russellville that morning, bent on mischief and crime, was made to feel the heavy rod of retributive justice.
The wearied freebooters quickly stepped into the deep shadow of a great tree which stood upon the bank of the stream, to await further developments.
Some of these men doubtless share with the renowned freebooters the spoils gained in their daring profession.
Two were dead, and sixteen survivors were prisoners, and at the mercy of five of the most desperate men who ever played the part of freebooters on this continent.
Frank and Jesse James early discovered those traits of character which have rendered them famous as the greatest outlaws and freebooters of modern times.
That period belongs to the past as definitely as the era of freebooters and pirates.
Tortuga soon became the busy headquarters of reckless freebooters of all nations, who here fitted out daring expeditions and returned to waste their gains in wild carousals.
It is astonishing to think how he won his battle and managed to retreat in safety, though he had against his poor thousand of cavalry over forty-two thousand of mounted men, pure freebooters by trade.
So swift was the attack--so hard pressed by the ferocious and desperate freebooters was Gerard and his allies, that the former had not even so much as a moment of time wherein to release Dawes.
Of these loyal freebooters and the things which associate their name with the Encantadas, we shall hear anon.
But during my ramble on the isle I was not long in discovering other tokens, of things quite in accordance with those wild traits, popularly, and no doubt truly enough, imputed to the freebooters at large.
Raleigh was the first man who perceived that America was to be the home of a white people: that it was to be a dwelling-place, not a mere supply-house for freebooters and home traders.
On the other hand, resistance was stimulated by tales of what the gold-laced freebooters of the court would do, if they were let loose upon New England.
It led English and Spanish explorers and freebooters up the California coast, and on to Vancouver and Bering Straits; Alaska was circumvented, and the Northwest Passage was found, though the everlasting ice mocked the efforts of the finders.
Bands of mercenaries and freebooters ravaged and pillaged the people with a cheerful disregard of the political party to which they belonged.
Here also in the King's country were freebooters who, when they pillaged travellers, asked not whether they were Armagnacs or Burgundians, and such men would not scruple to waylay the girl at a word from those about the King.
But the Duke's men worsted them, and carried away not only many freebooters as prisoners but those also who were held captive by the marauders.
In the band of Freebooters the monk had organised since his reformation were some men more beaten than the others by the tempest of an adventurous life.
At this proposal of the worthy monk's the joy of the Freebooters became delirious, almost frenzied, for they adored their Chief, and longed to place themselves under his orders again.
Thus, it was thought, solidity would be given to the royal power, and the long-standing curse of the freebooters and brigands cleared away.
His son Oddo had been killed in the Visconti wars in the spring of 1425 by the peasants of the Val di Lamone, who, seventy years before, had made short work of the wild freebooters of the so-called Great Company in their mountain passes.
In an instant a piece of crimson silk brocade, an ecclesiastical vestment, was torn to shreds, and the rough hands of the freebooters were fastening two strips crosswise to Noemi's arm.
In a moment the party was surrounded, and the two freebooters to protect themselves drew their swords.
Bells were forbidden to be rung in churches from vespers till full day, lest they should direct the freebooters to villages that they might ravage.
It was thought advisable not to precipitate action, but to allow the freebooters to retire to rest.
Not all those reckless freebooters were lost to the world even after the iron rails were laid.
The cooking utensils were then all hastily gathered up by the audacious freebooters and put into their blankets, as if this were a commonplace business affair that must be quickly performed.
Meanwhile the great roads were made almost impassable by freebooters who formed themselves into troops larger than had before been known.
Here are set forth the deeds of daring of the wild freebooters in crossing the isthmus to attack the cities, Puerto Bellow and Panama.
The freebooters sailed to Brazil and attacked the town of Santa, while the people were at Mass.
In the year 1717, King George offered a free pardon to allfreebooters who would come in and give themselves up.
The freebooters next attacked Rio Garta, and took it with only thirty men, crossed the Gulf of Honduras to rest on the Island of Roatan, and then proceeded to the Port of Truxillo, which they plundered.
Ah, it is the hardness of the laws which drives men to be freebooters on the road!
He had no wish to join himself with freebooters and law breakers; but if they hunted him beyond a certain point, he would not hesitate to fly to those who would give him safety and a welcome.
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