It was the old king, who, returned from his piratical excursion, had collected a strong force to destroy the devouring animal which ravaged his country.
Oppert, nevertheless, was imprisoned in his own country, and even brought out a book in which he described his piratical expedition.
And then: "Pitch out and tell me: what is this piratical scheme that you are afraid you may not have the nerve to carry through?
We are still a long way from the scene of Sir Francis Drake's more or lesspiratical exploits," I told her.
We should represent them as a lawless, piratical set of unprincipled robbers, plunderers and villains, who basely prostituted the superior power and information, which God had given them for worthy purposes to the vilest of all ends.
Their corsairs vexed Venetian commerce everywhere; and in that day, as in our own, private English enterprise was employed in piratical depredations on the traffic of a friendly power.
The Duke of Medina Celi, its present owner, is a lineal scion of the old piratical crew.
In 1635 the Recollects enter Romblon and its dependent islands, where they labor bravely, but exposed to continual danger by the piratical raids of the Moros.
This aroused animosity in Corralat, the prince of Mindanao; for if that district were to be converted, he would be greatly hindered in his piratical raids.
With such activity do they make a jest of the efforts that were assured by the presidio of Zamboangan, with their resort to more easy piratical raids.
A piratical atmosphere's all right in its place, but I'll feel as if I ought to pack a pistol or two if I sit down to eat with a tough looking specimen like you.
On the approach of the piratical boats the natives generally abandon their own and flee to the mountains.
St. Andrew's day, kept in celebration of the delivery of the Philippines frompiratical Chinese, is one of great rejoicing.
It is a favorite boat used for inter-communication between hundreds of the islands of the South Seas, and the Malays employ them in a different form for theirpiratical expeditions.
The rival of Captain Fred would want no better excuse for cutting him and his companions to pieces, and the wealth in their possession would be more "loot" than the same parties could obtain in a dozen piratical expeditions.
The letters to his brother are full of the details of these piratical attacks, but throughout all the turmoil he maintained his poise and his faith in the triumph of justice and truth.
News of the piratical descent had reached them, and now, watching the white sails until they faded from sight up between Rhene and Syros, the thoughtful among them took comfort, and were grateful.
On the flags of the Japanese piratical ships were inscribed the ideograms Hachiman-gu (Hachiman, the God of War).
But how can it be said now that their property is protected when this piratical fleet, like a bird of prey, hovers round the colony, pouncing down upon the native craft going to or leaving the port?
It is the criminal classes from the mainland which really give trouble, for Hong Kong labours under the disadvantage of being close to two large cities on the Pearl River--Canton and Fatchan, notorious for piratical and other criminal classes.
If they knew the facts, they would find perhaps that the very men they were commiserating were just then quietly planning a burglary or some piratical expedition for that very night.
I do not wish to see a new Barbary rising in America, and our long extended coast occupied by piratical States.
He found it necessary, indeed, to invade Syria, where their influence had declined, and had to beat back from the Delta region the piratical invaders of the same tribes as were securing a footing in Asia Minor.
The ancient land of the Pharaohs had been overshadowed meantime by a cloud of anarchy, and piratical and robber bands settled freely on its coast line.
It is not our intention to notice the piratical expeditions of Scandinavians, except so far as they tended to discovery, or commerce, or were productive of permanent effects.
Such vessels as were intended for lightness, had only one bank of oars; this was particularly the case with the vessels of the Liburnians, a piratical tribe on the Adriatic.
Their piratical expeditions were conducted with so much boldness and success, especially at the time when the Romans were engaged in hostilities with Mithridates, that they determined to curb them.
Besides the piratical habits of the early Scandinavians, were adverse to trade; and these habits shed their influence even after they were discontinued.
About this period the Scandinavian nations began to mingle commerce and discovery with their piratical expeditions.
These salaries, added to what is wasted in this country, would establish it, and put it in a better state of defense; while now it is subject to any piratical invasion whatever.
The delays in obtaining a satisfactory audience with the viceroy become permanent upon rumors that circulate regarding new piratical depredations from one who is suspected to be Limahon.
Here then was a difficult problem: to establish civil government among these wandering hill tribes, Filipino settlements, and piratical Mohammedan groups, each fearing and hating the other.
Every effort was made to turn the attention of the people from irregular andpiratical activities to the activities of commerce.
In the year 1849, the atrocities of the piratical Dyaks were so frequent, that the rajah applied to the English Admiral in the straits for some men-of-war to assist him in destroying them.
On the second day after his arrival, a piratical fleet of Ilanuns, consisting of six large, and as many smaller vessels, appeared on the coast, and blockaded the town.
There are slaves by birth and others by conquest, such as prisoners of war, insolvent debtors, and those seized by piratical expeditions to other islands.
The piratical origin, therefore, of the navies of Europe sufficiently explains the fact that plunder, which is less the rule than an incident of war on land, remains its chief object and feature at sea.
Moreover, the attempt of the State to regulate its piratical service failed utterly.
Probably by this time the greater part of the piratical craft along the Riff coast has been destroyed, and the long-promised Moorish gunboat stationed there to protect foreign shipping.
They took him and his men aboard the great ship, and sent a number of other hands with Israel Hands, master of Teach's ship, to man the sloop for the piratical account.
Jadee always maintained that the proceedings in which he had been engaged partook of a purely warlike, and not of a piratical character.
If men were savages on land they were doubly so at sea, and all the years of maritime adventure--years that added to the map of the world till there was little left to discover--could not wholly eradicate the piratical germ.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "piratical" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
