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... not discuss the con- jectures here. A savour of North Sea foam and ballad pirates hangs about the early chronicles of the family. Indications of an a... ...rs, to the rotting wild bees’ nest in our trees, to the worm in our ships’ timbers, and to lamentable afflictions of the human frame, and of sheep, ox... ...the colonel flourished. ‘Old English for me!’ ‘Y ou might as well say, old timber vessels, when Iron’s afloat, colonel.’ 128 Beauchamp’s Career ‘I su... ...h of the entrance, she stretched her whip out to a black mass of prostrate timber, saying: ‘It fell in the storm at two o’clock after midnight, and yo... ...eredith magnetic mountain, flies all its bolts and bars, and becomes sheer timbers, but that is the carelessness of the ship’s cap- tain; and hitherto...

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...ere around her, forming a semi-circle. The world of men and women was mere timber and leafage to this flower of her sex, glory of her kind. How he beh... ...on the wary watch, were noticed by him as well as by her; even the rotting timber drift, bark and cones on the yellow pine needles, and the tortuous d... ...s peep at an unexpected vision; he had noticed the singular shoot of thick timber from the rock, and the form of the goose-neck it rose to, the sprout... ...for his distinction. The creature beside him is a franked issue of her old pirate of a father in one respect—nothing frightens her. There she sits; no... ...R XVIII DOWN WHITECHAPEL WAY CONTENTION BEGETS CONTENTION in a land of the pirate races. Gigs were at high rival speed along the road from the battle-... ...steer her way through cities: mouth and brows were a warning to challenger pirate craft of a vessel carrying guns; and the red lips kept their firm li... ... you ‘re always going to suspect a man!’ he put it, like a true son of the pirates turned traders. ‘I’ve got a paytron, and a man in my profession mus... ...rings over the estate were oc- cupied chiefly in his decreeing the fall of timber that ob- structed views, and was the more imperatively doomed for hi...

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...he found the progressive quality his nature had craved. His employer was a pirate-souled young man named Grubb, with a black-smeared face by day, and ... ...ng city of A by means of three raider airships. A denounces B’s raiders as pirates and so forth, bom- bards B’s capital, and sets off to hunt down B’s... ...lling a couple of trees in the process, and they built a wide flat roof of timbers and tree boughs to guard their precious find against its chance dis... ...village would be liable to a raid of Asiatics or Africans or such-like air-pirates, de- manding petrol and alcohol or provisions. The price of its ord...

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...listened but the next dream had already started. Since it starred a certain pirate, I thought my subconscious would forgive me. Love at First Stak... ...ince I was afraid to fall asleep. I hadn’t even been able to enjoy my dream pirate. He kept turning into Dream Donnie, who kept shaking his head be... ...ke that anymore? Ooohhhh! Rudolpho is moving through the night. Shiver me timbers, but I’m scared. Get real. “Make you a deal, hot stuff. You k...

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...rts for a reclamation of all lands to civilization, and recording a description of the riot of murder, pillage and inhumanity which characterized the pirates, marooners and buccaneers who ravaged the spanish main and for centuries bid defiance to the armed fleets of all nations....

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...RIPTION OF THE RIOT OF MURDER, PILLAGE AND INHUMANITY WHICH CHARACTERIZED THE PIRATES, MAROONERS AND BUCCANEERS WHO RAVAGED THE SPANISH MAIN AND FOR... ... survivors turn freebooters -- English and French sailors and Colonists become pirates against Spanish ships Rapid increase in their numbers -- All th... ...om which he had escaped -- A massacre of the crew -- Other cruel and desperate pirates -- Cutting a Spaniard in two with one stroke of a cutlass -- Se... ...s attention towards Cuba -- Designs upon Puerto del Principe -- Landing of the pirates -- The Spanish cavalry attack the bandits -- A terrible battle ... ...1347 a vessel was sent from Iceland to the new country for a cargo of building-timber. Up to this time the colony had certainly flourished, and the ca... ...s to partially keep the pursuing Mexicans at bay. In the mean time, stones and timbers of every kind torn from demolished buildings were thrown into t... ...considerable town on the northern shore of the lake, where he put together the timbers of his fleet of thirteen brigantines, each of which he manned w... ... a Buccaneer ship, careened over on her side. The carpenters were caulking her timbers, and it was the sound of their busy hammers which first caught ... ...Spanish party of observation had camped, nothing was left but some smouldering timbers and the hides of a few bullocks that had been killed for food. ...

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...e chaplet of pearls. T o part with the first, or to risk the second in the pirate-ship, was impossible, but Eustacie at last decided upon detaching 2... ... front of the house, one of those fine T udor facades that seem all carved timber and glass lattice, and asked, so abruptly that Lucy doubted whether ... ...s they were spoken, ‘he has been robbed and misused at sea by Montgomery’s pirate crews. He fled from court for the religion’s sake; he met her—my wif... ...cient in English hands to protect her against Algerine corsairs or Spanish pirates. He only asked for a week to make her cabin ready for the reception... ...’ Just then Berenger’s gaze fell on something half hidden under the fallen timbers. He instantly sprang forward, and used all his strength to drag it ... ...was in disgrace for having afforded shel- ter and supplies to Montgomery’s pirate crews, and there were narrations of outrages committed on Catholics....

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...manned the slip rope which came through the stern port with a turn round the timber heads. ‘‘All ready forward?’’ asked the captain. ‘‘Aye, aye, sir; ... ...yield again, their punishment must come; and if they do not yield, they are pirates for life. If a sailor resist his commander, he resists the law, ... ... and goods, and this time succeeded in finding a part of a volume of Scott’s Pirate, in a corner of the house; but it failed me at a most interesting... ...e had got safe off from the breakers, and was too good a sailor to risk his timbers again. Though I knew what his life had been, yet I never had... ...ecastle, or sat upon the windlass, and sung sea songs, and those ballads of pirates and highwaymen, which sailors delight in. Home, too, and what we... ... looking spot is said to have been, for a long time, the resort of a band of pirates, who ravaged the tropical seas. Thursday, August 18th. At t... ...out knowing anything of their crews, until they get out at sea. There may be pirates or mutineers among them; and one bad man will often infect all t... ...ere experimenting on building a despatch boat, the Saginaw, of California timber. I have no excuse for attempting to describe my visit throug...

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...ed ship, with a stern gallery; for the win- dows are ship built with heavy timbering, and run right across the room as continuously as the stability o... ... CAPTAIN. Dunn! I had a boatswain whose name was Dunn. He was originally a pirate in China. He set up as a ship’s chandler with stores which I have ev... ...TOVER. You are still less under sixty. Boss Mangan, you will not marry the pirate’s child [he carries the tray away into the pantry]. 61 GB Shaw MANG... ...nto the pantry]. 61 GB Shaw MANGAN [following him to the half door]. What pirate’s child? What are you talking about? CAPTAIN SHOTOVER [in the pantry... ...at are you? MAZZINI [taken aback]. What am I? CAPTAIN SHOTOVER. A thief, a pirate, and a murderer. MAZZINI. I assure you you are mistaken. CAPTAIN SHO... ...hrough the garden]. DUNN. I hope nobody here believes that I am a thief, a pirate, or a murderer. Mrs Hushabye, will you excuse me a moment? I must re... ... of the drunken skipper’s ship on the rocks, the splintering of her rotten timbers, the tearing of her rusty plates, the drown- ing of the crew like r...

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...n foreign lands a happier seat. Near old Antandros, and at Ida’s foot, The timber of the sacred groves we cut, And build our fleet; uncertain yet to f... ...Sure in destruction, but in motion slow. The silent plague thro’ the green timber eats, The Aeneid Virgil 126 And vomits out a tardy flame by fits.... ..., the time will come, Y ou in vain, reverse your cruel doom; The faithless pirate soon will set to sea, And bear the royal virgin far away! A guest li... ...ndure. ‘T is said that, when the chief prepar’d his flight, And fell’d his timber from Mount Ida’s height, The grandam goddess then approach’d her son... ..., the fiery plague; the winds were high; The planks were season’d, and the timber dry. Contagion caught the posts; it spread along, Scorch’d, and to d... ...troke! (Those only gods Mezentius will invoke.) His armor, from the Trojan pirate torn, By my triumphant Lausus shall be worn.” He said; and with his ... ...no longer foes, Mix’d in the woods, for fun’ral piles prepare T o fell the timber, and forget the war. Loud axes thro’ the groaning groves resound; Oa... ..., freed my way. ‘T is a destructive war? So let it be, But to the Phrygian pirate, and to thee! Meantime proceed to fill the people’s ears With false ... ... unspotted maid, Propitious hear, and lend thy Latins aid! Break short the pirate’s lance; pronounce his fate, And lay the Phrygian low before the gat...

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...xen, who digged and wrought the iron and stones, who felled and framed the timber employed about the plough, mill, oven, or any other utensils, which ... ...fore it came to our use if we could trace them; iron, wood, leather, bark, timber, stone, bricks, coals, lime, cloth, dyeing drugs, pitch, tar, masts,... ...red, will be easily agreed by all men, who will not think that robbers and pirates have a right of empire over whomsoever they have force enough to ma... ...ell say, upon the same ground, that hon est men may not oppose robbers or pirates, because this may occasion disorder or bloodshed. If any mis chief...

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...elf is not an ideal. A successful highwayman showed courage of a sort, and pirate crews have been known to fight with courage or per- haps only with r... ...s blown down by the wind, a great strong piece of wood, a baulk of squared timber, was displaced several feet as if by enchantment. I looked at my com... ...good strong wooden quay shaken loose, iron bolts snapped, a baulk of stout timber splintered. Now, suppose that quay had been of granite (as surely it...

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...ch had been sent to all the European courts. “Bonaparte treats Europe as a pirate does a captured vessel,” said Count Rostopchin, repeating a phrase h... ...azaar and the Povarskoy, as well as the barges on the Moskva River and the timber yards by the Dorogomilov Bridge, were all ablaze. Pierre’s way led t... ...osseum. The cabmen he met and their passengers, the carpenters cutting the timber for new houses with axes, the women hawkers, and the shopkeepers, al...

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... Yards would spread, or our Masts carry, to have got clear; but finding the Pirate gain’d upon us, and would certainly come up with us in a few Hours, ... ...Hammock upon. Nov. 2. I set up all my Chests and Boards, and the Pieces of Timber which made my Rafts, and with them form’d a Fence round me, a little... ...12, 13, 14. Went every Day to the Wreck, and got a great deal of Pieces of Timber, and Boards, or Plank, and 2 or 300 Weight of Iron. May 15. I carry’... ... Wind blowing from the Shore, nothing came to Land that Day, but Pieces of Timber, and a Hogshead which had some Brazil Pork in it, but the Salt water... ...that I might be ready when it was ebb’d out, and by this Time I had gotten Timber, and Plank, and Iron Work enough, to have builded a good Boat, if I ... ..., and two more cutting off the Bows, and reducing it to a Log, or Piece of Timber. With inexpressible hacking and hewing I reduc’d both the Sides of i... ...m, I wanted to know what they had to say, why I should not execute them as Pirates taken in the Fact, as by my Commission they could not doubt I had A...

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... when he sailed north about Scotland on the famous cruise that gave us the pirate and the Lord of the Isles; I was with him, too, on the Bell Rock, in... ...y-made, or will have one in- stantly on the stocks, and proceed to lay its timbers and launch it in your presence. “Let me see,” he will say. “Give me... ...ear before in a work of Miss Yonge’s. My first perusal was in one of those pirated editions that swarmed at that time out of Brussels, and ran to such... ...w of Herculean proportions striding along the beach; he, to be sure, was a pirate. This was further afield than my home- keeping fancy loved to travel... ...ance of the incidents. T o deal with strong and deadly elements, banditti, pirates, war and murder, is to conjure with great names, and, in the event ... ...sses adorn and disfigure the novels. In that ill-written, ragged book, The Pirate, the fig- ure of Cleveland – cast up by the sea on the resounding fo...