The men have been talking about her and, many of them, favour not the trouble of marooning those on board of her.
The Revenge was already overloaded, and he determined to take the bark as a tender to relieve him of a portion of his cargo and to make herself useful in the business of marooning and such troublesome duties.
It is thence that the marooners took their name, for marooning was one of their most effective instruments of punishment or revenge.
And now fairly began that series of bold and lawless depredations which have made his name so justly famous, and which placed him among the very greatest of marooning freebooters.
The process ofmarooning was as simple as terrible.
Many negroes sought relief in a marooning life; but their number was not so great as we might expect.
Code Noir in 1685, when the colonists had already begun to shoot a slave for a saucy gesture, and to hire buccaneers to hunt marooning negroes at ten dollars per head.
You're one of the sophomores of Edward's College who hazed Alvin Baker by marooning him on that island where his cousin shot you with a slingshot.
I meant to say that this fellow whom you cornered and chased out of the air is one of the fellows who hazed Hal's cousin by marooning him on this island," Mr. Perry answered.
Even the marooning of poor George upon the Island of Juan Fernandez did not thrill your blood as it ought to have done.
Leirya is practically the only pirate at present in these seas, and we are all aware that marooning is practised chiefly among pirates.
Inside of the seat at one end was a marooning chest, as they called it, full of all kinds of liquors and cold meat, with the necessary utensils for their use.
The gentleman was an islander; and during the few hours in which we were gliding over the seventeen miles between the city and the ocean, he entertained me with an account of his marooning expeditions.
Yes, there is themarooning to be considered, of course," he said coolly, filling his pipe and lighting it.
He was to pick his men for the mutiny demonstration and the marooning job, leaving the marooned ones to infer that he, and the handful of Americans in the engine-room and fire-hold, had been overpowered.
It was by my instructions that Goff didn't appear in the marooning mix-up.
Said he, "I presume you have all made up your minds to the marooning party; am I correct?
Well done, Frank," said his father; "you have the marooning spirit if you do not know what supercargo is.
Robert, referring, with the air of a feasted epicure, to the abundant marooningdinner from which he had risen.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "marooning" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
