Tom's account of having recognised Mohammed's "corsair," even although. From Wordnik.com. [Picked up at Sea The Gold Miners of Minturne Creek] Reference
She was an outlaw; men called her a "corsair," and spoke of. From Wordnik.com. [Recollections of a naval life : including the cruises of the Confederate States steamers, "Sumter" and "Alabama",] Reference
Morpain, captain of a privateer, or "corsair," to oppose the landing. From Wordnik.com. [A Half-Century of Conflict - Volume II] Reference
But what of the people of the town of Baltimore in Ireland, all carried off by "corsair" raiders in a single night?. From Wordnik.com. [THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS] Reference
Under sail and oar a corsair could generally defy pursuit. From Wordnik.com. [Famous Sea Fights From Salamis to Tsu-Shima] Reference
Chinese who fled to the hills on the departure of the corsair. From Wordnik.com. [The Philippine Islands] Reference
"Oh, I shall get it easily enough," replied the corsair airily. From Wordnik.com. [Picked up at Sea The Gold Miners of Minturne Creek] Reference
After this there were no more plots against the corsair in Algiers. From Wordnik.com. [Sea-Wolves of the Mediterranean] Reference
Even this wholesale massacre did not assuage the wrath of the corsair. From Wordnik.com. [Sea-Wolves of the Mediterranean] Reference
His next act was to defeat the corsair, Cadolin, who had eight galleys to. From Wordnik.com. [Sea-Wolves of the Mediterranean] Reference
The corsair was standing by the side of Mr Tompkins, close by the taffrail. From Wordnik.com. [Picked up at Sea The Gold Miners of Minturne Creek] Reference
"The captain forgets," Mr Tompkins said, addressing himself to the corsair. From Wordnik.com. [Picked up at Sea The Gold Miners of Minturne Creek] Reference
Duguay-Trouin, who was known to our men as a daring and courageous corsair. From Wordnik.com. [Humphrey Bold A Story of the Times of Benbow] Reference
"The same, at your service," said the corsair, as he had better be called now. From Wordnik.com. [Picked up at Sea The Gold Miners of Minturne Creek] Reference
There was the gallant corsair, too, just stepping out of a boat, waving his hat. From Wordnik.com. [The Beth Book Being a Study of the Life of Elizabeth Caldwell Maclure, a Woman of Genius] Reference
There was no lack of incident in the life of a corsair of the sixteenth century. From Wordnik.com. [Sea-Wolves of the Mediterranean] Reference
A corsair has saved the shipwrecked and sold them as slaves to the Emir of Tunis. From Wordnik.com. [The Standard Operaglass Detailed Plots of One Hundred and Fifty-one Celebrated Operas] Reference
"You are wrong there," said the corsair, "for we would have attacked you all the same.". From Wordnik.com. [Picked up at Sea The Gold Miners of Minturne Creek] Reference
Brilliant, plotting, crafty and phenomenal, this young man has still the spirit of the corsair. From Wordnik.com. [The Masques of Ottawa] Reference
In order to obtain reasonable accuracy of aim the corsair of the sky must fly at about 400 feet. From Wordnik.com. [Aeroplanes and Dirigibles of War] Reference
The corsair was as good as his word to his Spanish captives, and restored to them their liberty. From Wordnik.com. [Sea-Wolves of the Mediterranean] Reference
On the other hand, the fighting corsair of the skies might be likened to the cruiser or battleship. From Wordnik.com. [Aeroplanes and Dirigibles of War] Reference
He was master by land and sea, the time was propitious; the corsair decided that the hour had come. From Wordnik.com. [Sea-Wolves of the Mediterranean] Reference
The corsair retaliated by leading what remained of his navy on a plundering raid to the Balearic Islands. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon"] Reference
The value of the corsair as an auxiliary was beginning to be recognised among the high Turkish officials. From Wordnik.com. [Sea-Wolves of the Mediterranean] Reference
The sea was smooth and favourable for rowing, and soon the ravening pursuit closed in on the doomed corsair. From Wordnik.com. [Sea-Wolves of the Mediterranean] Reference
His nautical skill and his success were so great that he acquired the name of the best of all corsair captains. From Wordnik.com. [The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.III. From George III. to Victoria] Reference
At the age of fourteen he ran away to sea, and was engaged till he was thirty in a life of adventure as a corsair. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon"] Reference
I stopped to look at them and the corsair insisted that I should buy one at least and take it with me for a souvenir. From Wordnik.com. [A Fantasy of Mediterranean Travel] Reference
The corsair, however, was a far finer fighter than he was a strategist, and was possessed of a most impatient temper. From Wordnik.com. [Sea-Wolves of the Mediterranean] Reference
In confidence of an easy victory, they boastingly proclaimed the intention either to sink the Federal or gain another corsair. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of the Kearsarge and Alabama] Reference
The corsair painted every part of his ship a dead black, and one dark night, under black sails, he slipped into Messina harbour. From Wordnik.com. [Famous Sea Fights From Salamis to Tsu-Shima] Reference
Ezzelin was a kinsman, or, more probably, a lover of Medora, whom Lara induced to fly with him, and who shared his corsair life. From Wordnik.com. [Notes and Queries, Number 27, May 4, 1850] Reference
They gave us a capital one last year, about a field-mouse who was captured at sea by a Barbary corsair, and made to row in a galley. From Wordnik.com. ['Wind In The Willows': A Christmas Take On A Classic] Reference
In other words, the corsair in the skies depends more upon compass and sound than upon compass and vision when operating after dark. From Wordnik.com. [Aeroplanes and Dirigibles of War] Reference
The Emperor, during the summer of 1535, was detained abroad by his operations against the corsair Chaireddin Barbarossa in Tunis, and. From Wordnik.com. [Life of Luther] Reference
They're flaunting their corsair mottoes while treading upon our toes, and some of us can't have autos or trotters or things like those. From Wordnik.com. [Rippling Rhymes] Reference
"Answer," repeated the corsair sternly, still in the same melodramatic whisper, enforcing his order with a dig of the revolver barrel in. From Wordnik.com. [Picked up at Sea The Gold Miners of Minturne Creek] Reference
These little vessels are practically the corsair type of Saracenic sailing-galley which used to infest the Barbary coast in days gone by. From Wordnik.com. [Pan-Islam] Reference
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