Even so he had watched and wondered, Knowing neither less nor more, Till all his lords lay dying, And axes on axes plying, Flung him, and drove him flying Like a pirate to the shore.
No pirate in the whole profession Held a more honourable position.
What a magnificent pirate he would have made, thought Rainey, looking at his magnificent proportions and considering the crude philosophies that cropped out in his talk.
No wonder that the hungry Nick whooped and yelled, calling the black pirate by all the hard names he could think up.
I'll pirate him," said the mate, rubbing his hands.
You'll be as good a pirate as any of us before you've finished.
All could not go in the one boat, and to leave the others at the mercy of prowling Indians, or, it might be, a return of some pirate squad, was hardly safe.
They took shelter in Pirate Creek, but the pirates have been cleaned out.
Now and then a river pirate was caught, or there was some one tripped up and punished who had traded unlawfully.
Just around the turn had been a notedpirate resort, broken up two or three times; at the last time with the cost of a number of lives.
The Governor now sent back Friar Riccio to Cogseng with an answer to his letter, but, on Riccio's arrival, he found the pirate dead of a fever, Manila being by this means released from the danger with which she was threatened.
The pirate thus dislodged, the Governor founded the city of Nueva Segovia, close to the Indian town of Lalo, and the city of Arivalo, in the island of Panay, in memory of his native province.
As Irving takes pains to indicate, the basis of the legend of the sunken pirate ship came not from Kidd but from another freebooter who flourished at the same time.
The stranger soon proved himself a pirate leader of great skill and bravery and went cruising off to the southward and the coasts of the Spanish Main.
On the shore of this reach of the Thames, at Tilbury, is shown a gibbeted pirate hanging in chains, just as it befell Captain William Kidd.
The real, true pirate of Trinidad was not in the slave schooner which captured the "Jew diamond dealer" of the Portuguese ship.
It was charged that while on this coast Kidd amicably consorted with a very notorious pirate named Culliford, instead of blowing him out of the water as he properly deserved.
There he learned, to his consternation, that he had been officially declared a pirate and stood in peril of his life.
On the other hand, Kidd declared that he would have attacked the pirate but he was overpowered by his mutinous crew who caroused with Culliford's rogues and were wholly out of hand.
Nor could piratehoard have a more blood-stained, adventurous history than these millions upon millions, lapped by the tides of Vigo Bay, which were won by the sword and lost in battle.
Pirate Prodigy, rising to the occasion, and casting aside all human affection in the peril of the moment.
The Pirate Prodigy started, and tears came to his eyes.
Their only other companion and confidant was the negro porter and janitor of the school, known as "Pirate Jim.
I kin buy some plug at the corner grocery," said Pirate Jim, "only I left my portmoney at home.
My pirate brig, the Lively Mermaid, now lies at Meiggs's wharf in San Francisco, disguised as a Mendocino lumber vessel.
With a wild, despairing cry she leaped into the sea, but was instantly rescued by the Pirate Prodigy.
My piratecrew accompanied me here in a palace car from San Francisco.
The slight girlish form of Mushymush with outstretched hands stood between the exasperated Pirate Prodigy and the Boy Chief.
The Pirate Prodigy rushed to her side with a bottle of smelling-salts.
Who but the Pirate Prodigy--the relentless Boy Scourer of Patagonian seas?
In my feverish haste, I had forgotten to place among the stores of my pirate craft that peculiar kind of chocolate caramel to which Eliza Jane was most partial.
As the waters closed over them forever, the Pirate Prodigy sprung to his feet.
The deacon then went into all the particulars of the revelations made by the pirate to his fellow-prisoner, much as they had been given by Daggett to himself.
Daggett was never a pirate himself, but accident placed him in the same prison and same room as that in which a real pirate was confined.
Subsequently, this pirate had been executed, and Daggett liberated.
Its amount was a little more than 2000 dollars, the pirate who made the revelation to Daggett having, in all probability, been ignorant himself of the real sum that had been thus secreted.
While in the same cell, the pirate had made a relation to Daggett of all the incidents of a very eventful life.
The famous Henry Morgan had never been anything but a pirateand a super-pirate; as admiral of a private fleet he executed a brilliant amphibious operation and sacked the city of Panama.
Charles Orsino found himself a member of a pirate band that called itself the North American Government.
Oh, knock it off--where do you get that pirate bit, gangster?
More difficult to learn were the ins and outs of pirate politics, which were hampered with an archaic, structurally-inappropriate nomenclature and body of tradition.
And it hadn't been tripped because this pirate gang didn't particularly want or need women as first-class, all-privileges citizens.
A Malay pirate with a drawn sword stood beside him, but he was otherwise unfettered.
The moorings were cast loose, our hero took his station at the engine, and the gun-boat glided swiftly down the river, leaving the pirate stronghold in flames.
The pirate captain looked carelessly on, while the overseer flogged this man; but the lash failed to arouse him, and the captain ordered the man to desist--but not in mercy.
And this," added the pirate captain, pointing to Aileen.
In his anxiety to do deadly execution, the pirate had overdone his work.
But he was saved the trouble of attempting a parley, for while yet six hundred yards off, a regular volley burst from the sides of the pirate vessels.
At the same moment a Malay seized the pirateby an ear, another grasped him by an arm, and he was quickly hauled inboard and bound.
Not till they were within a hundred yards did the pirate leader again speak.
The pirate in charge of the boat noted the fact, and whispered to one of his men, who thereupon ordered the policeman to pull harder, and accompanied his order with a cut from a bamboo cane.
The gun-boat went at the prow like a war-horse; her sharp bow struck one of the pirate vessels fair amidships and cut her in two pieces, launching her crew and captives into the sea!
The scheme seemed to be perfect for robbing every one in sight, and here was I being taken right in--I who had but one thought: to get those I had mired on to firm soil and myself outside the breastworks of this pirate stronghold.
But when it comes to business--his kind of business--when he turns away from his better self and goes aboard his pirate brig and hoists the Jolly Rover, God help you!
Whether or not he was, strictly speaking, a pirate is very doubtful; he was probably no worse in this respect than many, both in prior and later times, who have escaped the odium and the consequences of piracy.
The Archbishop of Canterbury might have grown up under influences which would have made him a bloodthirsty pirate or a sneaking pickpocket.
The pirate or the pickpocket, taken at the right time, and trained in the right way, might have been made a pious, exemplary man.
He also showed his ability in fighting the pirate scourge.
Their order was not to return until the pirate horde was annihilated; every one of them was to be hung, except Lolonois who was to be brought to Havana alive.
Only in this way did it seem possible to check the increasing pirate menace which was paralyzing commerce and arresting the progress of the island.
This was the last attempt of pirate forces upon the capital, the inhabitants of which had been kept in a state of constant alarm for a century and a half.
It was a moonlit night and on arriving at a point where the road branched into two, the pirate divided his forces, each taking one of the roads.
In the year 1665 the French pirate Pedro Legrand penetrated into Santo Espiritu with a force of filibusters.
Among them is the story of the famous pirate Lolonois, also known as Francisco Nau and el Olones, whose descent upon Cuba during the administration of Governor Salamanca has all the elements of a thrilling though gruesome melodrama.
But in that brief period occurred the invasion of the island of Trinidad by the British pirate Grant, who had under him a force of three hundred men and succeeded in thoroughly terrorizing the people.
One ship alone carried such rich freight, that every member of the pirate crew received four hundred pounds and the governor himself a handsome sum of hush-money.
During the pirate raids and other expeditions of British vessels off the Spanish-American coasts, British soldiers and sailors had been taken prisoners and were held in what was equivalent to bondage.
The colonies had to get along as best they could and they had a troublesome time to fight the ever growing menace of pirate invasion with little or no aid from the mother country.
But staying too long in that Neighbourhood, Captain Rogers sent out a Sloop well mann'd, which retook both the Prizes, the Pirate making his Escape.
I am not at all sure that "merit" is the right word to use in this instance, for to be a Pirate does not necessarily ensure you making a good author.
Here our Pirate was, as often as not, a noble, dignified, if gloomy gentleman, with a leaning to Byronic soliloquy.
I took you for a thieving beachcomber, and not for a really intelligent pirate and murderer.
He saw Mataara, a fathom deep, unfasten herself from the dead pirate and swim upward.
We'd better put our everyday names on it instead of our pirate names," Gory George suggested.
Cause the initials on it are the same as mine when we play pirateand I'm Dare-devil Dick.
But we found something just as good as pirate stuff--that note in the rifle was worth more to Uncle Darcy than a chest of gold.
For if anything should happen that some other pirate dug it up first they wouldn't know who the Dread Destroyer and the Menace of the Main were.
At that moment he would have given all the pirate gold that was ever on land or sea, were it his to give, to be back on that pier with the three of them, able to claim that old seaport town as his home for ever and always.
That will keep it safe till we can find the owner, and when we dig it up we can play it's pirate gold and it'll be like finding real treasure.
They could see a place off towards Wood End Lighthouse which looked like one of the pirate places Uncle Darcy had described in one of his tales.
The only difference between the two is, that the figurehead of the pirateis a griffin's head, painted scarlet; that of my schooner is a female, painted white.
I told you the pirate was a bold man; and now he has proved himself a clever fellow.
Those who seek to give a pirate his just reward do well.
The three listeners sat in perfect silence, until the pirate chose to continue his confession.
The Talisman was almost slewed into position, when thepirate schooner was observed to move rapidly through the water, stern foremost, in the direction of the point.
But the pirate captain was too much occupied with his own conflicting thoughts and feelings to bestow more than a passing glance on the person who sat at his side.
You know the usual doom of a, pirate when he is caught.
The cry of wild delight with which Alice sprang into her father's arms might have been destructive of all Gascoyne's plans had not the wind carried it away from the side of the island where the pirate schooner lay.
The pirate had taken the utmost care, by arranging an old sail over the spot, to prevent the reflection of the light being seen.
In a few minutes the most feeble-hearted escaped below, leaving the few remaining brave to be hacked to pieces, and the deck of the pirate vessel was in possession of the British crew.
We must, therefore, as Madame de Fontanges did with the pirate captain, temporise, and I trust we shall be as successful.
When the day broke, the pirate was not to be discovered in any quarter of the horizon from the mast-head of the Windsor Castle.
At nightfall the pirate had increased her distance to seven miles.
Monsieur de Fontanges, who darted on board of the pirate vessel at the head of some men near the main-rigging, while Newton and the remainder, equally active, poured down upon his quarter.
We left Newton floored (as Captain Oughton would have said) on the deck of the pirate vessel, and Isabel in a swoon on the poop of the Windsor Castle.
Escaping the English war-ships, she fell in with a pirate craft.
Satanic humour plays in the stranger's eyes as he answers: "I am Edward Bucklaw, pirate and keeper of the treasure-house in the La Planta River.
You are with me, then," the pirate asked; "even as to the girl?
Again, of this he had no fear; Bucklaw was a man of desperate deeds, but he knew that in himself the pirate had a master.
The pirate staggered back, but pulled himself together instantly, lunged, and took his man in the flesh of his upper sword arm.
That's the only way I can account for the fact that this particular pirate didn't have a revenge after his own Hunnish heart.
And it wasn't a packet of secret books that put the pirate down, but a 'baby,' and my baby at that.
There is nothing new in the idea, for it is precisely the same stunt the old pirate of the Caribbean was on when he concealed his gun-ports with strips of canvas and approached his victims as a peaceful merchantman.
All morning the pirate continued cruising on the surface, diving only once.
