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He puts in, that he is a pirate; that his captain, whom he describes as a _Vénus en corsaire_, has lost a son, and wants another; hence speaker, name Arnheim, wants that little
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 34, August, 1860 Various
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Brétagne el le duc d'Aiguillon (Paris, 1898); POULAIN, Hist. de St. Malo, la cité corsaire (Lille, 1887); CREVEDY, Les Sept Saints de
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss 1840-1916 1913
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_Belle Marie_, est un corsaire Francais, un -- vat you call -- privateere, et vous etes mes prisonniers.
The Voyage of the Aurora Harry Collingwood 1886
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"You wrote: '_Gentilhomme, gentilhomme; corsaire, corsaire et demi_'."
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I might have sent him about trumpeting the law of life: but I contented myself with informing him that the same thing would happen with any table whatsoever in which the first column goes up and the second goes down; and that if a proficient in the higher mathematics chose to palm a figment upon him, he could do without the circle: _à corsaire, corsaire et demi_, [617] the French proverb says.
A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume I (of II) Augustus De Morgan 1838
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"Le corsaire Overture" by Hector Berlioz will be featured.
PaloAltoOnline.com 2010
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"Le corsaire Overture" by Hector Berlioz will be featured.
PaloAltoOnline.com 2010
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"Le corsaire Overture" by Hector Berlioz will be featured.
PaloAltoOnline.com 2010
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"Le corsaire Overture" by Hector Berlioz will be featured.
PaloAltoOnline.com 2010
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[Footnote: Griperie, grip, sorte de bâtiment pour aller en course, vaisseau corsaire.] de Maures: le soudan, par représailles, envoyoit saisir à Damas et dans toute la Syrie tous les Catalans et les Génois qui s'y trouvoient.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 10 Asia, Part III Richard Hakluyt 1584
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