privateer

How To Use privateer In A Sentence

• This could hardly be wondered at, for taking into consideration the "natty" appearance of the privateer, the lubberly way in which she was sailed, standing so far off wind when she ought to have been close to it if she were sailing her course, was enough to excite anybody's suspicions. True To His Colors
• The wolf and fox are both privateers. 
• Captain John Frankford, commanding the 18-gun privateer Belvedere out of Philadelphia, had several spirited engagements with French xebecs and privateers off the Spanish coast in the spring of 1799 during the Quasi-War with France.
• In just a few months a small number of campaigners fought against the expensive and glossy propaganda pushed out by the privateers.
• Two of the prizes captured by the Southern privateers have been recaptured from the prize crew by the prisoners. Foreign and Colonial News
• The seashore inhabitants gained some recompense by resorting to wrecking, a tradition which lasted well into the 19th cent., and by their own privateering and smuggling.
• The cronies who run these associations pretend they are progressive, when in fact they are reactionary privateers.
• Though a privateer racing effort, Krohn-Barbour Racing will be officially affiliated with the Lamborghini factory.
• He next entered the service of Charles V; then embarked on a privateering expedition, for which Queen Elizabeth provided one of his ships, till the remonstrances of foreign powers led to his arrest.
• The privateer was a schooner, called the Eagle, commanded by Captain Potter. American Prisoners of the Revolution