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- noun Plural form of
Ostender .
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Examples
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In the following April, intelligence reached the Council at Bombay that Kyffin had had dealings with the Ostenders, and had been 'very assisting' to them; so, a peremptory order went down from Bombay, dismissing him from the Company's service, if the report of his assisting the Ostenders was true.
The Pirates of Malabar, and an Englishwoman in India Two Hundred Years Ago 1880
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A plot against the Governor's freedom might be pardoned, but, for assistance given to the Ostenders there was no _locus poenitentiae_.
The Pirates of Malabar, and an Englishwoman in India Two Hundred Years Ago 1880
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Interlopers and Ostenders, he was told, were not to receive even provisions or water.
The Pirates of Malabar, and an Englishwoman in India Two Hundred Years Ago 1880
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Ostenders, the, Kyffin's dealings with; peremptory orders regarding.
The Pirates of Malabar, and an Englishwoman in India Two Hundred Years Ago 1880
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Ostenders will think that you are some Flemish lad (for indeed you have somewhat of a foreign air), and I a Lutheran Minister striving to convert you.
The Strange Adventures of Captain Dangerous, Vol. 2 of 3 Who was a sailor, a soldier, a merchant, a spy, a slave among the moors... George Augustus Sala 1861
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