Under the Black FlagL. MacVeagh, The Dial Press, 1925 - 339 sivua |
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Muita painoksia - Näytä kaikki
Yleiset termit ja lausekkeet
Adventure anchor Anne Bonny armed ashore Barataria Barbadoes black flag Blackbeard boat Bonnet Boston brig brigantine brought Burgess cabin called canoe Cape Cape Antonio Cape Lopez Captain captives captured cargo carried Charles coast commanded companions consort crew cruise cutlass Davis deck Dutch England English escape fell fight fire fleet followed forced fortune French galley gave gold Governor guns hands hanged harbor Havana hundred island Jamaica James Johanna John John Martel joined killed King Lafitte land Libertatia Lieutenant Madagascar master mate Mauritius merchant Methelage Misson Mohilla morning Nathaniel North native negroes night North once pardon piracy pirates pistol plundered port Portuguese prisoners prize provisions Pyrate quartermaster Rackam reached Red Sea Revenge Roberts sailed schooner seized sent ship shore shot slaves sloop Snelgrave soon Spanish taken taking Thomas took trade Vane vessel voyage William Woodes Rogers wounded York
Suositut otteet
Sivu 5 - fell pirate! No more, aghast and pale, From Ostia's walls the crowd shall mark The track of thy destroying bark. No more Campania's hinds shall fly To woods and caverns when they spy Thy thrice accursed sail." But now no sound of laughter Was heard among the foes. A wild and wrathful clamor From all the vanguard rose. Six spears...
Sivu 110 - We, therefore, have thought fit, by and with the advice of our Privy Council, to issue this our royal proclamation : And we do hereby strictly charge and command all our loving subjects to observe a strict neutrality in and during the aforesaid...
Sivu 153 - Tho', damn ye, you are a sneaking Puppy, and so are all those who will submit to be governed by Laws which rich Men have made for their own Security, for the cowardly Whelps have not the Courage otherwise to defend what they get by their Knavery; but damn ye altogether: Damn them for a Pack of crafty Rascals, and you, who serve them, for a Parcel of hen-hearted Numskuls.
Sivu 129 - Confusion amongst us! - Rogues a plotting; - great Talk of Separation. - So I looked sharp for a Prize; - such a Day took one, with a great deal of Liquor on Board, so kept the Company hot, damned hot, then all Things went well again.
Sivu 280 - Have not these noble Britons — these honorable men, Colonel Nicholls and Captain WH Percy, the true representatives of their royal master — done this? Have they not made offers to the pirates of Barataria to join them and their holy cause? And have they not dared to insult you by calling on you to associate, as brothers, with them and these hellish banditti?
Sivu 110 - ... Proclamation; and we do hereby promise, and declare, that in Case any of the said Pyrates, shall on, or before, the 5th of September, in the Year of our Lord 1718, surrender him or themselves, to one of our Principal Secretaries of State in Great Britain or Ireland, or to any Governor or Deputy Governor of any of our Plantations beyond the Seas; every such Pyrate and Pyrates so surrendering him, or themselves, as aforesaid, shall have our gracious Pardon, of, and for such, his or their Pyracy,...
Sivu 105 - What I have to say is this, I desire to be informed for what I am here ; I am condemned only upon circumstances. I forgive all the world. So the Lord be merciful to my soul." When Lambert was warning the spectators to beware of bad company, Quelch joining, "They should also take care how they brought money into New England to be hanged for it.
Sivu 126 - Undertaking, as the suppressing a Sort of People, who may be truly called Enemies to Mankind; I have thought fit, with the Advice and Consent of his Majesty's Council, to issue this Proclamation, hereby declaring, the said Rewards shall be punctually and justly paid, in current Money of Virginia, according to the Directions of the said Act.
Sivu 80 - My Lord, it is a very hard sentence. For my part, I am the innocentest person of them all, only I have been sworn against by perjured persons'.
Sivu 39 - Tew appeared to me not only a man of courage and activity, but of the greatest sense and remembrance of what he had seen of any seaman that I ever met with.