Definitionn. hijacking on the high seas or in similar contexts
Last update: September 27, 2015
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From this point of vantage he began depredations on the Red Sea (1182), building a fleet, and seeking to attack Medina and Mecca - a policy which may be interpreted either as mere buccaneering, or as a calculated attempt to deal a blow at Mahommedanism in its very centre. [Please select]
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THE MILAGROSA The affair at Maracaybo is to be considered as Captain Blood's buccaneering masterpiece. [Please select]
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Their buccaneering had not succeeded as they had hoped. [Please select]
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They had the best of everything; they were blundering, blustering, noisy, careless, buccaneering owners of the world, and to her--as all the roystering swarm to any individual worker bee--to her, negligible. [Please select]
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What forced these hardy sailors to turn pirate we do not know, but once they had discovered the advantages and pleasures of a buccaneering career there was no one who could stop them. [Please select]
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