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  • All those aboard the ships, which were attacked and seized pirate-style in international seas far beyond the legal limits of Israel's own territorial waters, were arrested and/or deported.

    Phyllis Bennis: From Istanbul: Outrage Over a Massacre on the High Seas 2010

  • She was rail-thin, dressed in head-to-toe black, with small red chickens printed across her long skirt and a yellow and green headscarf tied pirate-style around her head.

    Spellbound Karen Palmer 2010

  • In the hopes of finding the perfect young reporter to replace the four veterans we laid off last week, qualified finalists will enjoin in pirate-style knife fights to see who will get the job.

    Dominick Bonny: Young reporter in Steinbeck-land 2010

  • In the hopes of finding the perfect young reporter to replace the four veterans we laid off last week, qualified finalists will enjoin in pirate-style knife fights to see who will get the job.

    Dominick Bonny: Young reporter in Steinbeck-land 2010

  • She was rail-thin, dressed in head-to-toe black, with small red chickens printed across her long skirt and a yellow and green headscarf tied pirate-style around her head.

    Spellbound Karen Palmer 2010

  • All those aboard the ships, which were attacked and seized pirate-style in international seas far beyond the legal limits of Israel's own territorial waters, were arrested and/or deported.

    Phyllis Bennis: From Istanbul: Outrage Over a Massacre on the High Seas 2010

  • She was rail-thin, dressed in head-to-toe black, with small red chickens printed across her long skirt and a yellow and green headscarf tied pirate-style around her head.

    Spellbound Karen Palmer 2010

  • He ? should have a knife in his mouth pirate-style.

    Goggie will never expect - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2009

  • He knew he could gain even more exposure by harnessing the power of the media, pirate-style.

    The Pirate’s Dilemma Matt Mason 2008

  • They painted the vehicles white on top — a puritan touch that distinguished Gaskin's group from Ken Kesey's more mischievous Merry Pranksters, which terrorized the land, pirate-style, in a psychedelically decked-out 1939 International Harvester school bus.

    Sex, Drugs, and Soybeans Windolf, Jim 2007

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