And should a privateersman order me about, and not even give his name?
There was a determination in the conduct of the privateersman which endeared him to his crew.
Among those who watched the departure of the gallant privateersman stood Bertha Tempest and Pauline Jones.
Captain Jonathan Haraden, the finest privateersman of the Revolution, made the rigging for the mainmast at his ropewalk in Brown Street.
He was a stout-hearted old privateersman of the Revolution whom nothing could dismay, and in this tiny Experiment of his he won merited fame as one of the American pioneers of blue water.
The chief fault of the privateersman was that he sailed and fought for his own gain, but he was never guilty of sinking ships with passengers and crew aboard, and very often he played the gentleman in gallant style.
No privateersman could resist such strategy as this.
Captain Kidd had, as we have mentioned, a double commission, one against the pirates, and the other a regular commission as a privateersman against the French.
Privateersman as I was, I could not refrain from tears at the scene.
During the time of my imprisonment, it had occurred to me that the life of a privateersman was not one which I could follow up with a good conscience; and I had, on my journey down to Liverpool, made up my mind that I would give it up.
He could see only the money side of the war for American independence, and he took it for granted that a privateersman would look at it in precisely that way.
He was evidently a privateersman all over, and his view of the matter was that he had only met with a disaster in the regular line of his business.
He was a privateersman in preference to any other occupation, without need for the patriotic spirit which was sending into it the seafaring veterans of America.
The privateersman sprang into the boat, shoved it off, and pulled in the direction from which the appeal came.
The privateersman listened for a few minutes in silence.
But theprivateersman suddenly fell upon him, and both of them went down.
I do not know how it was that Tom Granger got the title of captain, for the highest grade that he ever reached was that of second mate of the Privateersman Nancy Hazlewood.
How great were the profits accruing to a privateersman in a "run of luck" might be illustrated by two facts set forth by Maclay, whose "History of American Privateers" is the chief authority on the subject.
While armed to fight, if need be, that was not their purpose, and a privateersman who gained the reputation among owners of being a fighting captain was likely to go long without a command.
For, indeed, the two were one throughout a considerable period of our maritime history, the sailor turning privateersman or the privateersman sailor as political or trade conditions demanded.
In the diary of a privateersman of Revolutionary days is to be found the story of the capture of an Indiaman which may well be reprinted as typical.
I thought she was a privateersmanunder Letters of Marque.
The privateersman was treated with the greatest courtesy and was made as comfortable as could be.
Like a greyhound the Francois swept down upon them, and with the audacity of despair, the privateersman of St. Malo ranged alongside of the Falcon and opened fire.
Of course all France again rang with the fame of Jean Bart, while the crafty sea-dogs who had endeavored to capture the slippery privateersman were furious with envious rage.
At length the bluff privateersman was allowed to go free, and--he never paid back the money.
The British privateersman cruised about for a whole month without any luck, and, falling in with the privateer Sheerness, joined with her in a little run in search of inoffensive merchantmen.
Thus Joshua Barney rolled on to home and freedom, while the stout-bodied soldier little guessed that the artful privateersman had slipped through his fingers like water through a sieve.
The task of a privateersman is to act as a licensed pirate, preying on enemy ships.
The Log of a Privateersman By Harry Collingwood Another cleverly written and interesting book by this prolific author of books about the sea for teenage boys.
And you know now that this is Raoul Yvard, the French privateersman you have mentioned?
Then the personal appearance of the young privateersman was unusually attractive, and altogether different from what it had been previously represented, and that, too, by an active rivalry that was not altogether free from bitterness.
Its purport was as follows: He reported the capture of Raoul, explaining the mode and the circumstances under which that celebrated privateersman had fallen into his hands.
The cabin-lamp was trimmed, and the privateersman found himself under a strong light as soon as he had crossed the threshold of the apartment.
Still she listened eagerly, and it was not the least of her causes of satisfaction to find that her own hurried interviews with the handsome privateersman had apparently escaped observation.
All these would have been good prizes; but, to do the privateersman justice, he was little in the habit of molesting mariners of so low a class.
But the privateersman laughed, and flung the weapon aside, And he drove his blade to the hilt, and the foeman gasped and died.
But the privateersman said, "Well we know the Englishmen, And their faith is written red in the Dartmoor slaughter-pen.
While I studied this mighty figure, which perfectly realized the general idea of a privateersman and even of a pirate, Mlle.
The poor old privateersmanraised himself a little, as he looked at me with a dull and wavering expression.
It was not until the privateersman drew close enough to make out the gun-ports and the unusual number of men on the American's decks, that he discovered Decatur's ruse and attempted to escape.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "privateersman" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
