That freebooter was very adept at boarding other ships and stealing the treasure aboard. From LearnThat.org.
A certain Dutch freebooter, however, Simon Danzer by name, a native of Dordrecht, who had been alternately in the service of Spain. From Wordnik.com. [PG Edition of Netherlands series — Complete] Reference
A new scheme for holding up travellers for the purpose of robbery, and many of them evidently thought me a kind of freebooter, who ought to be suppressed by law. From Wordnik.com. [The old Santa Fe trail The Story of a Great Highway] Reference
"De'il ane -- nor a bawbee," replied the freebooter. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, No. 382, October 1847] Reference
CATERAN, a Highland irregular soldier, a freebooter. From Wordnik.com. [Waverley] Reference
“Never mind the warrant, kinsman,” said the freebooter. From Wordnik.com. [Rob Roy] Reference
I want to get this damned freebooter romance out of my hair. From Wordnik.com. [Children Of The Night]
Killearn by that daring freebooter, while levying the Duke of. From Wordnik.com. [Rob Roy] Reference
Another deity is Mithu Bhukia, an old freebooter, who lived in the. From Wordnik.com. [The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India Volume II] Reference
"How do you know I'm going to leave you any, you young freebooter?". From Wordnik.com. [What Two Children Did] Reference
Government, and a reward was offered for the head of the freebooter. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745 Volume II.] Reference
"Moichi, Sardonyx is the freebooter who was my partner so long ago.". From Wordnik.com. [beneath an opal moon]
Clan Campbell, but most of all a certain freebooter of the name of Rob. From Wordnik.com. [Red Cap Tales Stolen from the Treasure Chest of the Wizard of the North] Reference
It was a notorious freebooter, a Hindoo Robin Hood, that I had dropped upon. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 87, March, 1875] Reference
The Sultan of Lahidge, its owner, was indeed little better than a freebooter. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 69, July, 1863] Reference
As one former apple-selling "freebooter" put it, "Yeah, business is better now. From Wordnik.com. [Freakonomics] Reference
Walter, in 1816, and may have directed his thoughts to this popular freebooter. From Wordnik.com. [Rob Roy] Reference
But the experienced freebooter was not to be baffled where such a prize was at stake. From Wordnik.com. [Rob Roy] Reference
The leader of the Wahhábí movement in India was Sayyid Ahmad, a reformed freebooter. From Wordnik.com. [The Faith of Islam] Reference
Isaac Richier, who became Governor of the colony in 1691, was another celebrated freebooter. From Wordnik.com. [The Bay State Monthly — Volume 2, No. 5, February, 1885] Reference
Even the bravest freebooter would have thought hard before coming back, but Vixen had no choice. From Wordnik.com. [The Warslayer]
As far as I have been able to discover, the great freebooter was born at St. Etienne in May 1724. From Wordnik.com. [Travels through France and Italy] Reference
But the wrecker-pirate takes his victim at a disadvantage, for he is not a genuine freebooter of the sea. From Wordnik.com. [Captain Canot or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver] Reference
Madgi, Bhoyar, Pindaria from Pindari, a freebooter; Gondia (Gond) and Gondhali; and Kachhwaha, a sept of Rajputs. From Wordnik.com. [The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India Volume II] Reference
Verres, who, if we may believe the only records we have regarding him, was the most phenomenal freebooter of all time. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of Rome from the Earliest Times to the End of the Republic] Reference
Johnnie was a notorious freebooter and Border raider, no one daring to go his way for fear of Johnnie or his followers. From Wordnik.com. [From John O'Groats to Land's End] Reference
Their wild fearless demeanour struck me as more characteristic of the freebooter, than the soldier of a regular government. From Wordnik.com. [Journal of a Visit to Constantinople and Some of the Greek Islands in the Spring and Summer of 1833] Reference
Husson, a notorious cowboy and freebooter, had gone up to steal his horses, and was to have a hundred guineas if he got them. From Wordnik.com. [The Military Journals of Two Private Soldiers, 1758-1775 With Numerous Illustrative Notes] Reference
Then with that for his starting-point he became a freebooter, not plundering any Hellenes, but Carthaginians and Tyrsenians only. From Wordnik.com. [The History of Herodotus] Reference
Escape, indeed, was not difficult for a swimmer so expert as the freebooter, as soon as he had eluded the first burst of pursuit. From Wordnik.com. [Rob Roy] Reference
The famous freebooter, Robin Hood, who, according to tradition, flourished in Sherwood Forest in the distracted reign of Henry the. From Wordnik.com. [Christmas: Its Origin and Associations Together with Its Historical Events and Festive Celebrations During Nineteen Centuries] Reference
Thenceforth his life was that of a marauding freebooter, until, fatally wounded at the siege of Burwell, he expired in September, 1143. From Wordnik.com. [London and the Kingdom - Volume I] Reference
One of the towers of the cathedral is called the tower of Hastings, but its date is evidently subsequent to that of the Norman freebooter. From Wordnik.com. [Brittany & Its Byways] Reference
Once again, that old-fashioned word "impunity," which once went so well with words like "freebooter" and "extraterritoriality," seems apt. From Wordnik.com. [Tom Engelhardt: Missing Word, Missing World] Reference
Alan Cameron, commonly called Sergeant Mhor, a freebooter of the same period, was equally remarkable for strength, courage, and generosity. From Wordnik.com. [Redgauntlet] Reference
The old freebooter felt nothing but a cold emptiness, as if time had stopped and the universe had shrunk to the dimensions of his own body. From Wordnik.com. [Conan Of The Isles]
It was favoured by the nature of the country over which the freebooter ruled triumphant, and by the secret good wishes of the Highlanders who resided in the neighbourhood. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745 Volume II.] Reference
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