But if they make out that we are the schooner of their piracyand murders, will they come on board?
Piracy gave a sailor a good chance,' said the mate, with a groggy look at the hands lounging forward.
Would they carry with them a living witness to their piracy and murders?
The English Government having been unable or unwilling to repress the frequent acts of piracy which its subjects practised against members of the League, these also took to piracy, and mutual recriminations ensued.
It seems strange, to our modern ideas, even to think that piracy was once a reputable calling.
For awhile the Hansa were able to keep their rivals in check, worrying them by piracy on the one hand, and insisting on their ancient claims and trade rights on the other.
To exterminate piracy would be the work, not of months, but of many years.
The council are quite of my opinion," he said to Harry, "as to the extreme difficulty and cost that an effort to put down piracy among the islands would involve.
Piracy in the Nicobars, account of, 91-94 Plantations, N.
Captain Hawkins, would you have any objection to stating to these gentlemen the condition of affairs which led you to give up piracy on the high seas?
That piracy on the sea is not profitable in these days of the check banking system," said Kidd.
Blanc throws into the shade the olderpiracy of Monaco.
The massacre of these forces drove him home again to engage in attacks on the Catalans and Venetians and struggles with Genoa, till the wealth which his piracyhad accumulated enabled him to add Mentone and Roccabruna to his petty dominions.
The great and dangerous piracy used in those seas no man can be ignorant of that listeth to read the Japanese and Indian history.
In olden times, piracy and war for plunder were the principal business of mankind.
They were normal components of society in the past, when all men were soldiers and all soldiers were bandits, and the principal business of mankind was piracy and war for plunder.
Some saw in it a piece of piracy of doubtful wisdom, and were sorry to find that they had been assembled to violate friendly territory instead of to raid native kraals, as they had supposed.
Rhodesia is a happy name for that land of piracy and pillage, and puts the right stain upon it.
I can easily understand," said Jim reflectively, "how piracy might appear in that roseate light after a few years of practical politics.
I said as much to Jim one day, at which he smiled, and remarked that if we got to monkeying with the ethics of the trade, piracy would soon be a ruined business.
But, you know, we always draw the line somewhere, and I'm about to ask you to join me in drawing the line, and see just what moral levelpiracy has risen or sunk to.
True, under the reign of Ptolemy I, the owners of the Owl's Nest were on the point of being deprived of this favour, because they were repeatedly accused of piracy in distant seas; but it had not been done.
That act of piracy was one of the acts that roused America and led to our intervention.
Some force she still possesses at sea, but it is force to be expended on sea piracy alone.
Virgil Samms was thinking of pirates and of piracy when he left Senator Morgan's office.
And I don't have to tell you what piracyhas done to insurance rates.
He is actually a Big Shot in both piracy and politics.
If there were no piracy of the copyrighted book there would be no remedy .
With the expiration of these acts in 1679, legislative penalties lapsed and piracy became common.
The copyright was sold by Millar's executors to Becket, who prosecuted Donaldson for piracy and obtained from Lord Chancellor Bathurst a perpetual injunction.
The one recorded instance of punishment for piracy was that on the work of Pappa Alesio of Corfu, wherein the infringer was fined 200 ducats, besides ten ducats for each unauthorized copy printed, and was forbidden to print for ten years.
The foreign slave-trade was carried on to some considerable extent when I was at the south, notwithstanding a law had been made some ten years previous to this, making this traffic piracy on the high seas.
The law which makes it piracy to traffic in the foreign slave trade is a dead letter; and I doubt not it has been so in the more southern states ever since it was enacted.
The original object of the institution of the courts or court seems to have been to prevent or punish piracy and other crimes upon the narrow seas and to deal with questions of prize; but civil jurisdiction soon followed.
Doubtless there was provocation, for the sultan of Achin had not kept to the understanding that he was to guarantee immunity from piracy to foreign traders; but the necessity for war was greatly doubted, even in Holland.
In the 5th century the council fined the Dolopians for having disturbed commerce by their piracy (Plut.
The early records of the admiralty show that the origin of the prize jurisdiction is to be traced to the power given to the court of the admiral to try cases of piracy and ``spoil,'' i.
But it was not until an order had come from the Governor and Council at Boston that he was arrested, nor had there been a province law against piracy until within a few years.
New England could contribute a thick volume to the annals of piracy in the New World from the records of a hundred years subsequent to her settlement.
The buccaneers were hunted down without cessation and nest after nest broken up until, at the close of 1825, piracy in those waters was practically suppressed.
He entered Columbia College, Washington, when only eleven years old, but left it in 1824 to accompany his father on his cruise in the West Indies to break up piracy in those waters.
Piracy in all ages is a thing in which a curious shuddering interest has been taken, and the deeds of the outlaws of the sea have never lacked chroniclers.
He had learned, too, that this kind of lying in ambush was altogether a customary feature of all piracy or privateering among the Antilles.
Piracy had been fought out of large parts of the ocean, only making an occasional appearance, but in other parts it held an only half-disputed sway.
He had been Lepardo's mate, on many a smuggling run, and in many an act of piracy off the coast of Barbary.
At present he durst not do it, while under the ban of piracy and the suspicion of his uncle's murder.
The time is coming when a naval war (except by England), will be as relentlessly suppressed as piracy on the high seas.
That blood is mainly Irish and German, the blood of men not distinguished in the past for successful piracy and addicted rather to the ways of peace.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "piracy" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
