At this time there was a deal of talk in those parts of the Americas concerning Captain Morgan, and the prodigious successes he was having pirating against the Spaniards.

" Now, Stede Bonnet was a planter of high reputation and religious character who, from some sudden and overpowering freshet of wildness in his blood, had given up everything in order to start off pirating in the Caribbean Sea.

The English sloop Zebra was sent down into the Gulf of Paria to clear it of French privateers, manned by the defeated maroons and brigands of the French islands, who were paying respect to no flag, but pirating indiscriminately.

Nicky Perrata, a Greek boy, taught me my letters, and it was n't till after I learned to read that I found out there was anything really wrong in bay-pirating.

Pirating copyrighted etext on Usenet and elsewhere is going to > happen more and more, for the same reasons that everyday folks > make audio cassettes from vinyl LPs and audio CDs, and > videocassette copies of store-bought videotapes.

Thus, Major Stede Bonnet, of Barbados, master of a plentiful fortune, and a gentleman of good reputation, fitted out a sloop and went a-pirating, for which he was hanged, together with twenty-two of his crew, in November, 1718.

They looked like pirates in the pictures of Howard Pyle or Maxfield Parrish; one or two of them were pirates, and one worse than a pirate; but most of them were hard-working, willing, and cheerful.

Yankee ships in pirate waters.

Yankee ships in pirate waters.

Yankee ships in pirate waters.

<pb id='358.png' n='1958h2/A/1655' /> Pirate's purchase.

Pirate's purchase.

MOORE, FENWORTH, pseud. Prisoners on the pirate ship; or, Jerry Ford and the yellow men.

Henry Morgan, pirate.

The pirate who gives his blood has a better right, therefore, to the ship than the merchant (who may be a usurer!) who only gives his money.

At ten years of age we are all quite sure that piracy is a finer calling than trade, and the pirate a finer fellow than the Shylock who owns the shipwhich, indeed, he may well be.

Like Mr. Chesterton (and our pirate), the Turk believes in the right of conquest, "the ultimate test of how they fight."

"I mean turn pirate, so to speak.

Mr. De Foe in his preface to the second volume of his works, collected by himself, takes occasion to mention the severe hardships he laboured under, occasioned by those Printers, more industrious than himself, who make a practice of pirating every work attended with success.

Two days after, he captured an English ship, and, as the men joined in pirating, emptied and burned the vessel, and then sailed for St. Thomas.

He thought this a good opportunity to get off, and accordingly applied to his old friend: but Holford absolutely refused him, saying to him, "Charles, I shan't trust you aboard my ship, unless I carry you as a prisoner, for I shall have you caballing with my men, knocking me on the head, and running away with my ship pirating.

Mash retired, thinking to herself that, if Mr. Wilkeson were only a pirate, a smuggler, a guerilla chieftain, or a dashing fellow in some unlawful, dangerous business, a few years younger, he would be a perfect hero.

Such a pirate, such a cormorant was never before.

But firstI'll get the boss pirate of the outfit" Swiftly the clutching figure scrabbled in over the rail, dropped to the metal plates of the take-offnow slanting steeply down and forwardand broke into a staggering run directly toward the gallery where stood Bohannan and the Master.

But still other rival companies built lines, using various forms of apparatus, and though the courts repeatedly upheld Morse's patent rights, the pirating was not effectively checked.