How To Use freebooter In A Sentence
- Captain Thomas Randall, described as a freebooter of the seas, who commanded the "Fox," and sailed for years in and out of New Orleans, where he sold the proceeds of his voyages and captures. Fifth Avenue
- The French adventurers, however, seem always to have restricted the word "boucanier" to its proper signification, that of a hunter and curer of meat; and when they developed into corsairs, by a curious contrast they adopted an English name and called themselves "filibustiers," which is merely the French sailor's way of pronouncing the English word "freebooter." [ The Buccaneers in the West Indies in the XVII Century
- Rinaldo's men were lawless, and sometimes the supplies were not furnished in sufficient abundance, so that Rinaldo and his garrison got a bad name for taking by force what they could not obtain by gift; and we sometimes find Montalban spoken of as a nest of freebooters, and its defenders called a beggarly garrison. Legends of Charlemagne
- Freebooters, freebooters, that is all Captain Gruzinov ever seems to talk about. BLAZE OF GLORY
- On the other hand, there were no troops in the town, save a small corps of "freebooters," and five companies of the burgher guard. The Rise of the Dutch Republic — Volume 21: 1573-74
- In 1891-92 Iran was roiled by protests against a tobacco monopoly granted to a British freebooter, a Major Talbot.
- Another source of recruits for the freebooters were the indentured servants or _engagés_. The Buccaneers in the West Indies in the XVII Century
- The honest captain had caught this word from a recent treatise against agrarianism, and having an acquired taste for orders in one sense, at least, he flattered himself with being what is called a Conservative, in other words, he had a strong relish for that maxim of the Scotch freebooter, which is rendered into English by the comely aphorism of "keep what you've got, and get what you can. Homeward Bound or, the Chase
- It may be asked, Why should these men be called freebooters if the founders of The War in South Africa Its Cause and Conduct
- The very epitome of the 16th-century military freebooter and vagabond, the landsknecht was rightly feared wherever he went.
