buccaneers

By the outlanders we are cursed and feared, are termed buccaneers, pirates, freebooters.

"Microcosmic Buccaneers" by Harl Vincent, part 5 Johnny Pez 2009

Have you never heard any fearful stories about Thomas Hutter's having once been concerned with the people they call buccaneers? "

The Deerslayer James Fenimore Cooper 1820

These men were called buccaneers; and the meaning of the word gives some intimation of the origin of the buccaneers themselves.

Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 5 Charles Herbert Sylvester

I began to wonder again whether, after all, the tale he had told to the buccaneers was a lie, and he had come back to the house with no further design than to wreak his spite upon it.

Humphrey Bold A Story of the Times of Benbow Herbert Strang

In process of time the name was applied to the sea robbers as well as to the hunters; and when piracy became the general profession as a substitute for planting and the chase, all were called buccaneers indiscriminately.

The Continental Monthly, Vol III, Issue VI, June, 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy Various

It was at this crisis in their history that they began to be known as buccaneers, or people who practise the boucan, the native way of curing meat.

On the Spanish Main Or, Some English forays on the Isthmus of Darien. John Masefield 1922

According to Exquemelin the original goal of the buccaneers was the town of Nata, north of Panama.

The Buccaneers in the West Indies in the XVII Century Clarence Henry Haring 1922

The buccaneers were a great source of piracy also.

The Pirates' Who's Who Giving Particulars Of The Lives and Deaths Of The Pirates And Buccaneers Philip Gosse 1919

The end of most of the pirates and a large proportion of the buccaneers was a sudden and violent one, and few of them died in their beds.

The Pirates' Who's Who Giving Particulars Of The Lives and Deaths Of The Pirates And Buccaneers Philip Gosse 1919

The former discovered the inlet on the Mosquito Shore, excellent for buccaneers, which is still called by his name, Blewfields Bay, in Nicaragua.

Privateering and Piracy in the Colonial Period Illustrative Documents 1898