“Booger the time,” said the buccaneering nobleman. From Wordnik.com. [Conqueror's Moon]
Their old-time buccaneering was hardly worth the name. From Wordnik.com. [Free Enterprise] Reference
Paul Williams and some of his buccaneering associates. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, November, 1878 of Popular Literature and Science] Reference
These buccaneering conventions were gradually imposed upon all the. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 59, September, 1862] Reference
Who doesn't enjoy a little bit of buccaneering and treasure hunting?. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-04-01] Reference
That buccaneering, rough and tumble life out there has its attractions. From Wordnik.com. [Bullets & Billets] Reference
It's not exactly an example of the virtues of buccaneering private enterprise. From Wordnik.com. [European Scientists and America, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty] Reference
A buccaneering spirit seems to have gone and we're the poorer for its passing. From Wordnik.com. [July 13th, 2007] Reference
That would provide the most powerful weapon of defence against financial buccaneering. From Wordnik.com. [Deep Furrows] Reference
It's a program that turns all sentences and phrases into their buccaneering equivalents. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2006-08-01] Reference
They are the 21st century equivalent of the 18th century British Empire, amoral and buccaneering. From Wordnik.com. [American World Domination Through Massive Nuclear Threat] Reference
A younger man, well known for a certain buccaneering spirit, said no word, but wrote a criticism. From Wordnik.com. [Flowering Wilderness] Reference
These members of the “business community” are indeed not buccaneering and risk-taking innovators. From Wordnik.com. [America the Banana Republic] Reference
Murdoch's utter domination of his company, and his buccaneering ways, have long made investors nervous. From Wordnik.com. [The Man Behind Rupert's Roll] Reference
In 1591 Henry May sailed to the East Indies, along with Captain Lancaster, on a buccaneering expedition. From Wordnik.com. [The Bay State Monthly — Volume 2, No. 5, February, 1885] Reference
After his wartime buccaneering he became one of the most esteemed travel writers of the twentieth century. From Wordnik.com. [War Without End] Reference
The gunner, a grizzled old veteran, who had been buccaneering with the great admiral, turned to his captain. From Wordnik.com. [Sea-Dogs All! A Tale of Forest and Sea] Reference
They had not heard of the fate of the party who had sailed away, and now nearly all were bent on buccaneering. From Wordnik.com. [French Pathfinders in North America] Reference
English, French, and Dutch buccaneering in the Caribbean played an important role in disrupting Spanish-American commerce. From Wordnik.com. [7. Foreign Encroachments and Territorial Changes, 1580-1800] Reference
I guess most readers think of it as a left-wing enterprise and of Julian Assange as a buccaneering fighter for free speech. From Wordnik.com. [Who will confront the hatred in Hungary? | Nick Cohen] Reference
French tolerance for the buccaneering figure from another age who has claimed to have served French interests around Africa. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
He admired her toughness, her lack of sentiment, her buccaneering spirit and her laissez-faire attitude toward her offspring. From Wordnik.com. [Storyteller] Reference
It was from his mentor, Hugh McColl, a buccaneering figure who had kicked off Bank of America's expansion efforts in the 1980s. From Wordnik.com. [Street Scenes: The Players] Reference
Others became the agents of easy cabinets who always winked at buccaneering, because it so often saved them the expense of war. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 59, September, 1862] Reference
By a subtle system of intellectual buccaneering this reserved Englishman winnows from much chaffy verbiage the real seeds of thought. From Wordnik.com. [Oswald Langdon or, Pierre and Paul Lanier. A Romance of 1894-1898] Reference
For buccaneering had now become a most profitable employment, operations were extended, and a storehouse secure from the attacks of the. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria"] Reference
Today, we play with pirate talk and its mythical lore as a means of stepping into the important performance role of a buccaneering jester. From Wordnik.com. [The Bushman Way of Tracking God] Reference
The villain has a parson to his hand -- a besotted Cambridge fellow who has sunk to buccaneering with the pretty crew Vetch has about him. From Wordnik.com. [Humphrey Bold A Story of the Times of Benbow] Reference
His buccaneering good looks and formidable presence always made a powerful impression on her, but instinct warned her to keep her distance. From Wordnik.com. [The Rich Man's Royal Mistress]
His indomitable, buccaneering spirit is irreplaceable. From Wordnik.com. [The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed] Reference
Her buccaneering skipper's been taken prisoner and is presently in irons. From Wordnik.com. [Cassandra Does Tokyo] Reference
To this author that was just political buccaneering as far Southern Sudan is concerned; and therefore not acceptable while we have breaths. From Wordnik.com. [Sudan Tribune: Plural news and views on Sudan] Reference
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