Do not be disconsolate: I am not one of the lawless and cruel rovers of the desert; I know the rules of civil life: I will fix your ransome, give a passport to your messenger, and perform my stipulation, with nice punctuality.'

It was this redoubtable sea-rover who, according to advices received early in 1595, was preparing an expedition in England for the purpose of wresting her West Indian possessions from Spain.

The present Representative of the once far-famed and dreaded Rovers.

He changed the ship's name to the Resolution, and proved himself one of the most daring rovers of his day.

"] When the deadly sky-rover Came frequently over And London was darkened at night, Girls powdered their noses (Or so one supposes)

By the 1st July, 1719, to which date the time of grace was extended, all but three or four of the most desperate rovers had retired from business.

Here comes an expert rover of the forest who will be your immediate jailer.

But if I sail the world around, I'll be a faithful rover, She.

The Danish invasions in the ninth century set back for some time the development of Irish poetry, but, when the Irish had driven the fierce and aggressive sea-rovers from their country, there was a literary renascence.

For many years, it was affirmed,long after the outlaw had vanished from the scene,these gallant old rovers of the river still pursued their accustomed game, a solitary pair, without kindred or acquaintance in our woods.

What Dick Sand noticed at firstand which was so, in factwas that he had before him, not one of those Indians, habitual rovers over the pampas, but one of those adventurers of foreign blood, often not very commendable, who are frequently met with in those distant countries.

But for the maintenance of our maritime supremacy it was, as Burke had preached three-quarters of a century before, better to trust to the spirit of the people, to their attachment to their government, and to their innate aptitude for seamanship, which they seem to have inherited from the hardy rovers of the dark ages, and which no other nation shares with them in an equal degree.

Such an extraordinary change in the behaviour of the Bombay squadron taught them that the Indian coast was no longer a safe place for honest rovers.

Till once, by a fatal mishap, The little unfortunate rover Perceived herself close in a trap, And felt that her race was now over.

To the general Black Rifle and his men were mere woods rovers, savages themselves in everything except race, and the army that he led was invincible.

I remember the first two stanzas of it: "Once I was a monarch's daughter, And sat on a lady's knee; But am now a nightly rover, Banish'd to the ivy tree Crying, hoo hoo, hoo hoo, hoo hoo, Hoo hoo hoo, my feet are cold!

Here our well-beloved west branch of the Penobscot, called of yore Norimbagua, is married to the east branch, and of course by marriage loses his identity, by-and-by, changing from the wild, free, reckless rover of the forest to a tamish family-man style of river, useful to float rafts and turn mills.

" "And does your Honor believe that the trim-built and light-sailing gentleman we overhauled in this skiff, is in truth that renowned rover?" asked Yarn, resting on his sculls, in the interest of the moment.

The coasts were peopled with cyclops like Polyphemus, with frightful monsters born of the union of Olympian goddesses and simple mortals; but an obliging dolphin came and went, carrying messages between Poseidon and the Nereid, until, overwhelmed by the eloquence of this restless rover of the wave, Amphitrite agreed to become the wife of the god, and the Mediterranean appeared to take on still greater beauty.

To me, my lords, the loss of some of our mercantile vessels shows only the disproportion between the number of our ships of war, and the extent of the sea, which is a region too vast to be completely garrisoned, and of which the frequenters must inevitably be subject to the sudden incursions of subtle rovers.

Adieu, brave Captain; when you have need of a thorough rover, and dream of stern-chases and wet sails, think of him who visited your ship at her lazy moorings.

He considered his nephew the greatest of the Ferraguts, a true man of the sea like his ancestors but with the title of captain;an adventurous rover over all oceans, as he had been, but with a place on the bridge, invested with the absolute command that responsibility and danger confer.

Till once, by a fatal mishap, The little unfortunate rover Perceived herself close in a trap, And felt that her race was now over.

PHORKYAS But thee thy father hath to Menelaus wed, Bold rover of the sea, and house-sustainer too.

Now purple gems, the eastern skies adorn, And joyful nature hails th' opening morn; The rovers conscious of approaching day, Fly to their shelters, and forget their prey.