As this was what no belligerent had a right to demand, though privateersmen constantly did it, I could comply or not.

No sooner was my proposition made than it was accepted by acclamation, and the privateersmen began to pour into the boat, heels over head, without order, and I may say without orders.

At first, the privateersmen supposed that, in filling away, I merely intended to further their views; but, no sooner did they perceive the ship standing on to leeward of the passage, than the truth seemed to flash on their befogged faculties.

With these weapons, it would have been easy for us to have given the privateersmen such a hint, as would not fail to keep them at bay.

By anchoring at the spot where the boat waited for us, we at once gave up the ship to the privateersmen, the battery first mentioned commanding that point completely.

Marble brought up the muskets left by the privateersmen, and began to renew their primings.

Our hands then went to demand Ferrow, but the privateersmen got out their arms and would not suffer us to board them.

With peace their numbers increased by the conversion of privateersmen into freebooters.

The privateersmen, disregarding the peace, under pretence of making war on France and Spain, plundered ships of all nations.

As usual, the Peace of Utrecht was followed by an increase of piracy, through the privateersmen being thrown out of employment.

Now, as privateersmen are not expected to be expert or even very accurate in the use of signals, he had ventured to show these very numbers, let it prove for better or worse.

Still she listened eagerly, and it was not the least of her causes of satisfaction to find that her own hurried interviews with the handsome privateersman had apparently escaped observation.

"I have come, Signor Vice-governatore," said the privateersman, "in compliance with positive orders from my master, to pay my respects to you again, and to report my arrival once more in your bay, though the cruise made since my last departure has not been so long as an East India voyage.

The privateersman, who had received a much better education than he pretended to, and who was a consummate actor as well as, on certain occasions, a practised flatterer, determined to be more cautious in future, sparing his literary conjectures, whatever liberties he might take with other subjects.

All these would have been good prizes; but, to do the privateersman justice, he was little in the habit of molesting mariners of so low a class.

By the conversation that followed, the young privateersman felt satisfied that, though he might have succeeded in throwing dust into the eyes of the vice-governatore and the podestà, these experienced old seamen still distrusted his character.

The wish of the young privateersman, however, was soon gratified.

"It's more likely, sir, that some of the privateersmen have got ashore on planks and empty casks, and are prowling about in the weeds, watching our boats.

Deep mortification at the manner in which they had been duped by this celebrated privateersman, with a desire to absent themselves from the island until the edge was a little taken off the ridicule they both felt they merited, blended with certain longings to redeem their characters, by assisting in capturing the corsair, were the reasons why these two worthies, the deputy-governor and the podestà, were now on board the Proserpine.

The cabin-lamp was trimmed, and the privateersman found himself under a strong light as soon as he had crossed the threshold of the apartment.

Its purport was as follows: He reported the capture of Raoul, explaining the mode and the circumstances under which that celebrated privateersman had fallen into his hands.

" "And you know now that this is Raoul Yvard, the French privateersman you have mentioned?" "Ehknow?I know they say this is the Signor Yvard, and that ze Ving-y-Ving is le Feu-Follet.

Cuffe had no great veneration for privateersmen, nor was his estimate of their morality at all unreasonable, when he inferred that one who served with gain for his principal object would not long hesitate about purchasing his own life by the betrayal of a secret like that he now asked.

All privateersmen are not of your way of thinking, and it was there we fell into our mistake.

Following the privateersman's directions, the Constitution the next day, August 19th, [1812,] at two o'clock in the afternoon, latitude 41 deg.