A hundred years ago the glory of the American navy was made clear to the world in the suppression of the pirates of North Africa.
Were Algiers and Tunis and Tripoli "civilized states" when they sent out the Barbary pirates in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries?
To-day that glory must be maintained by firm, fearless, unrelenting war against the pirates of North Germany.
But the hands of the Potsdam pirates are red with innocent blood.
The pirates gathered on the deck and buckled on their swords, Rolled up their sleeves, and combed their beards, and spoke piratic words.
The pirates laughed and vowed my scheme would give them lots of fun; And soon a big, red, round, Dutch cheese was rammed in every gun.
The vessel moves, the wives of the pirates continue on the beach, waving their scarfs to their desolate husbands.
The nearestpirates rush to the strand, and assist the disembarkation of their welcome comrades.
The pirates and the women join in the national dance; and afterwards eight warriors, completely armed, move in a warlike measure, keeping time to the music with their bucklers and clattering sabres.
It calls for privateers, who are commonly pirates with a national charter, and pirates are privateers with only a personal charter.
But by this sin organized in society, these vagrant children are training up to become thieves, pirates and murderers.
Sicily and Sardinia for protection against the pirates in the time of Charles the Fifth, which prob.
From the description of the prahu given by the convict tindal, and the information gathered from the Chinaman when he was able to talk, the police were enabled to trace the prahu to Sunghie Rambay, where the pirates were arrested.
The case was tried at the Supreme Court, Penang; some of the pirates were hanged, and the rest sentenced to penal servitude.
Some of these pirates were in the habit of going about in Penang and quietly ascertaining what tongkongs were about to sail, and all particulars in regard to their cargo, crew, and so forth.
I have had more than one encounter with Eastern and African pirates during my voyages, but I have never taken my helmet with me on such journeys, and have not suffered by its loss.
The flotilla next proceeded up the Rejanz river, and severely handled the natives indiscriminately; for it was known that such as were not pirates themselves aided them in every practicable way.
Five of these war prahus were destroyed, and about eighty pirates killed, and perhaps as many wounded.
During the year, also, the Rif pirates gave trouble on the shores of northern Africa.
The next day one of the look-out boats brought in tidings that the pirateswere advancing in full force.
The squadron entered the mouth of the Sarrebas river, as the rajah had certain information that the pirates intended to inflict pillage and massacre upon the people of that neighbourhood.
Through the instrumentality of Rajah Brooke, the Malay pirates were defeated and ultimately extirpated from the bays and creeks of Labuan.
The Nemesis chased the pirates to the shore, who drew up in line along the beach.
The boats of the squadron then rowed up the Sarrebas river, and destroyed a few prahus, some pirate villages, and a town which seemed to be the head-quarters of the pirates in that direction.
The proceedings of the Borneo pirates having led the British Rajah Brooke to demand assistance, Captain Mundy, under the direction of Admiral Sir Thomas Cochrane, operated during the month of July in command of an effective maritime force.
On the evening of the 30th, tidings reached Sir James that the pirates were attacking a place called Palo.
The Moro pirates are apparently disposed to make peace, so Acuña is discussing this with them; but he has little confidence in their promises, except as he can inspire them with fear.
But the pirates still thought of nothing but the gold.
While the pirates were breakfasting a spirited dispute took place among them as to who should go to the treasure cave and who stay in camp to guard the prisoners.
With the camp freed from the presence of the pirates all need of watchfulness was over.
But what about the pirates who were still in the cave and would shortly be returning from it?
If the ingenuity of this reasoning was more remarkable than its logic, the pirates were not the men to find fault with it.
Through the walls of the hut we heard loud and eager talk of the morrow and its certain golden harvest as the pirates made their dispositions for the night.
Our best hope would be to wait in ambush behind the trees of the clearing--I mean for Dugald Shaw and Cuthbert Vane to do it--and shoot down the unsuspecting pirates as they returned.
The fly in the ointment of our satisfaction, and the one remaining obstacle to our possession of the treasure, was the presence of the twopirates in our midst.
After the pirates had eaten, the prisoners on the log were covered with a rifle and their hands untied, while Cookie, in a lugubrious silence made eloquent by his rolling eyes, passed around among us the remnants of the food.
And all this meant meal-time--and the thoughts of hungry pirates turning toward camp.
His countenance, as the illuminating conversation of the pirates had proceeded, lost the speckled appearance which had characterized it at the height of his terrors.
For some time after our capture by the pirates Cuthbert's state had been one of settled incredulity.
It was an attentive group to which on our return to camp I related the circumstances which had made possible our late exploit of imprisoning the pirates in the cave.
As an earnest of our riches, we had the two bags of doubloons which the pirates had recovered from the fleshless fingers of the dead man.
Then Whisky Bob and Nicky the Greek arrived, sober, indignant, outraged in that their fellowpirates had raised their plant.
We oyster pirates were all visited by the searching Italian, and we were convinced, from what we knew of their movements, that Whisky Bob and Nicky the Greek were the guilty parties.
The disdain I had learned for money from the oyster pirates had never left me.
First of all, I was very proud to be in the company of Nelson, who was the most heroic figure among the oyster pirates and bay adventurers.
During the night, while the oyster pirates lay stupefied in their bunks, the schooner and the Reindeer floated on the high water and swung about to their anchors.
But the Queen of the Oyster Pirates was looking at me, a part-emptied glass in her own hand.
My status on the water-front and with the oyster piratesbecame immediately excellent.
Here a considerable number of persons whom the pirates had taken prisoners were landed and left to shift for themselves, in revenge for the disaster suffered at Santa Pecaque.
After this the pirates entered the Gulf of Amapalla.
The piratesat length repaired to the island of Juan Fernandez to refit, and William, one of the Mosquito Indians, was left behind.
His object was frustrated, in consequence of one of the pirates violently pushing a man before him, when the Indians, suspecting treachery, took to flight.
They informed the pirates that large herds of cattle were to be found in the neighbourhood.
Passing the north-west end of Sumatra, the piratessteered for the Nicobar Islands, to the south of the Andamans.
On board one of them were eight tons of quince marmalade, but the pirates were bitterly disappointed on learning that they had missed a vessel containing eight hundred thousand pieces of eight, which had shortly before been landed.
It was afterwards ascertained that the Spaniards executed as pirates six of the men they had captured, though they sailed with a commission from their Queen, who was at open war with Spain.
The pirates told them that they had come to trade with the Spaniards, and requested them to carry a letter to the merchants there.
A Spanish vessel was captured on the 3rd of May, bound for Lima with timber, before news of the pirates being on the coast was known at the settlements.
The plan which I had formed from the first, was now about to be put to proof; and, if the pirates were not the cowards which I believed them to be, nothing could save us from falling into their hands.
The poor fellows looked very uncomfortable; but, I suppose, thought they had better stand the fire of the pirates than mine, and kept at their post.
The pirates now seemed quite sure of their prize, and came down upon us, hooting and yelling like demons, at the same time loading their guns, and evidently determined not to spare their shot.
Baskets of small stones were brought up from the hold, and emptied out on the most convenient parts of the deck, and were intended to be used instead of fire-arms, when the pirates came to close quarters.
Captain Spinnet, as the luckless pirates crowded around the lee gangway of their prize, "when you find them silver dollars, just let us know, will you?
Now get your pistols, and see that they are surely loaded, and have your knives ready, but be sure and hide them, so that the pirates shall see no show of resistance.
Schooner Allen Chased by an English Schooner--Horrible attrocities committed by Pirates on the Spanish Main, 205 CHAP.
The true way we think would be to put armed crews on board of merchantmen, at sea, after they had left the port they sailed from, and in this way the pirates could get no intelligence of vessels destined to go against them.
Two of the pirates with loaded muskets took their stand and fired them toward me, when I cast my eyes down toward my feet looking for blood, thinking that I might have been wounded without feeling the pain.
By this time the other pirates got close around us, and I discovered they were about to run my vessel on shore.
The pirates had previously robbed the sailors' chests of all the articles they contained, and among them Bill's razor.
I told him if the pirates had caught him drinking their rum they would have killed him.
After he had recovered his senses they made another attempt to put the rope round his neck the fourth time, when one of the pirates told his comrade to let him alone, because he had children.
We looked back with a great deal of anxiety, and saw the pirates seated on the deck of the largest schooner, drinking liquor and making themselves merry, while we feared that they might change their minds, pursue us and take our lives.
He was profuse in expressing his regret that the unfortunate occurrence had happened to my vessel; and was still full of his determination to pursue the pirates until he got some revenge for the injuries he had received from them.
This was a mere nest of pirates who persecuted the Indians of the shore, kidnapping and selling them as slaves to the Spaniards on the Antilles, and it was shortly abandoned.
Vigilance committees were organised, volunteer patrols guarded the city streets and country roads, and a coast militia fought the pirates who infested the seashore.
It must have been ever so long ago, the pirates or the Spaniards," he said.
The times became peaceful: the tide of warfare rolled westward; there were no more ships crossing with fresh invaders; there were no more pirates hovering about the broad reaches of the Lower Thames.
The six pirates returned, clad in their baggy rubber suits, and looking very much like bears walking on their hind legs.
If the pirates should catch them, everything would soon be over.
The loss of these pirates to science is one that can never be compensated.
But something occurred here, I do not know what, which impelled thepirates to move.
Then perhaps you happen to know the whereabouts of a place called Low Dudgeon, where the pirates formerly lived?
The pirates and their captives were standing on a little grassy plateau, on which were great boulders here and there, and a few wide leafy trees.
One of the pirates produced from his pocket some strong twine, and bound Mr. Hanlon's arms behind him.
Chinese annals show that under its provisions some twenty pirates were handed over by the Japanese and were executed by boiling in kettles.
The origin of this incident is wrapped in mystery, but probably the prohibition of Japanese pirates was not enforced for the protection of Chosen, and the assault on Tsushima was a desperate attempt at retaliation.
The pirates inscribed on their sails the legend Hachiman Dai-bosatsu.
The goods appropriated in Korea were sometimes carried to China for sale, the pirates assuming, now the character of peaceful traders, now that of ruthless plunderers.
The Government itself was constrained to organize special corps for dealing with the brigands and pirates who infested the country and the coasts.
I shall have every care that the ways are free by sea and land: I have freed them from all pirates and brigands.
Not only were the Filipinos unable to protect themselves against these bloodthirsty pirates of the south, but the Spaniards were for nearly two and a half centuries unable to afford them adequate protection.
However, Joló pirates have at least been pretty effectively kept off the sea, and that in itself is a very important result.
Pirates were everywhere in the clearing, and all had heard John Dark's strict order to blast down the captives if they left their prison.
As master of a space-ship, I have legal right to order summary execution of any space-pirates I capture.
I was a prisoner on his ship, captured by the pirates before they themselves were attacked by the Patrol.
Almost the last of John Dark's pirateshad been possessed by Vestans and had become parasite-dominated robots stumbling off into the jungle.
There were a score more of the motley pirateshere in the camp.
John Dark and his pirates are on the asteroid--alive!
His indomitable personality drove the scared, unwillingpirates into the task.
Holk Or appeared in the door of the Falcon, his green face blazing as his atom-pistol pumped crashing fire into pirates inside the ship.
The Vestans have got a half-dozen pirateswho ventured outside the wall in the last few days.
Screaming pirates were now running into the jungle in vain effort to escape the hordes of Vestans.
John Dark stood, a tall, dominant figure in the moonslight, barking orders to the scores of pirates who were bolting in the last of the new rocket-tubes.
The urgent toil of the pirateswas showing results.
With a strong escort of armed pirates guarding them, and Dark and Holk Or ahead, they started through the jungle toward the pirate camp.
But Dark and his pirates weren't dead as the Patrol thought.
Other pirates were firing wildly at the hideous creatures assailing them.
All nations, even pirates and savages, were to be moved by the influence of his persuasive virtue and masterly skill in diplomacy.
Of the many ridiculous stories told of Burr and his daughter, one was that her ship was captured by pirates and she, ordered to walk the plank, did so with her child in her arms "without hesitation or visible tremor.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pirates" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
