93 adjectives to describe pirates

For many years, the port of Salee was the rendezvous of the notorious pirates of Morocco, who, together with the city of Rabat, formed a species of military republic almost independent of the Sultan; these Salee rovers were at once the most ferocious and courageous in the world.

JESSE, FRYNIWYD TENNYSON. Moonraker; or, The female pirate and her friends.

"They are half-breed mongrels, and no sailors; Estevan is a hell-hound, an' so far as my voice goes, I'd rather die on this deck than ever agin be a bloody pirate.

Long after they had disappeared from the seas the Indian trade continued to be exposed to the ravages of native pirates, who were not finally coerced into good behaviour till well into the nineteenth century.

Which could twelve hundred years withstand Winds, waves, and northern pirates' hand.

[Illustration: THE FIRE SHIP GRAPPLED THE SPANIARD] The second Spanish ship, seeing that the pirates were successful in destroying the admiral's vessel, fled toward the castle, but being unable to escape, they sunk their vessel, preferring to lose their ship rather than fall into the hands of the bloodthirsty pirates.

It is even thought that the famous Rover has tired of his excesses on the Spanish Main, and that a vessel was not long since seen in the Caribbean sea, which was thought to be the cruiser of that desperate pirate!" Wilder made no reply.

The Algerians, those barbarous North African pirates, had been forcing the Americans to pay tribute.

"He's barefooted," shouted Dab, with, it must be confessed, something like a grin; "and one of the little pirates has pinned him with his nippers.

All my preconceived impressions of Sanchez had vanished; he was no longer in my imagination a weakling, a boastful, cowardly bravado, a love-sick fool; but a leader of desperate men, a villain of the deepest dyethe dreaded pirate, Black Sanchez, whose deeds of crime were without number, and whose name was infamous.

His temperance did not prevent him from being the most wantonly wicked pirate who sailed the seas.

SEE Goodspeed, Edgar J. GOODWIN, JOHN B. L. The pleasant pirate.

This latter vessel he placed in command of a certain John Malyoe whom he had picked up no one knows wherea young man of very good family in England, who had turned red-handed pirate.

For several days the Jolly-cum-pop was highly amused at the idea of his being seventeen criminals, and he would sit first in one cell and then in another, trying to look like a ferocious pirate, a hard-hearted usurer, or a mean-spirited chicken thief, and laughing heartily at his failures.

He is not a mere pirate, living by plunder alone, but rather like the old Phoenician sea-farer, indifferently honest or robber as occasion serves,and robber not from fierceness of disposition, but merely from utter unscrupulousness as to means.

Dawn Mundy Provost (W); 22Mar63; R313089. Purple pirate.

The inhabitants, finding themselves unable to make head against the dauntless pirates, abandoned their hearths, together with all they had not time to carry away.

The nearest pirate was now within two or three hundred yards of us, and, putting her helm down, gave us a broadside from her guns.

England and three others who had befriended Macrae were set on shore, among them, no doubt, the one-legged pirate, and in due course of time made their way over to St. Mary's.

The Normans now visited the coasts, not as enemies, but as merchants; and Bruges became the mart of the booty acquired by these bold pirates in England and on the high seas.

All my preconceived impressions of Sanchez had vanished; he was no longer in my imagination a weakling, a boastful, cowardly bravado, a love-sick fool; but a leader of desperate men, a villain of the deepest dyethe dreaded pirate, Black Sanchez, whose deeds of crime were without number, and whose name was infamous.

Just trying to help out a little," said the erstwhile pirate.

But may God be blessed, there is hope for human nature; for there is a powerful, free, mighty people here on the virgin soil of America, ready to protect the laws of man and of Heaven against the execrated pirates and their associates.

"Did either of them have a chance to set off an alarm?" "I think this one did," responded Joe, pointing to the fallen pirate at his feet and picking up his laser pistol.

He had carried her off as the rough, old-fashioned pirates bear away feminine prizes from a town they have looted.

93 adjectives to describe  pirates