prize-taking

The commerce raider as described in the novel seems to me to be reminiscent of the Napoleonic system of prize-taking or the sixteenth-century privateers.

The Last Raider, by Douglas Reeman. Book review Carla 2008

The commerce raider as described in the novel seems to me to be reminiscent of the Napoleonic system of prize-taking or the sixteenth-century privateers.

Archive 2008-05-01 Carla 2008

It is not often that the angling clubs which encourage prize-taking offer booby consolations for the smallest fish, but I have known exceptions, especially at the holiday competitions by the seaside.

Lines in Pleasant Places Being the Aftermath of an Old Angler William Senior

We learnt of this prize-taking from the "Corriere della Sera."

A War-time Journal, Germany 1914 and German Travel Notes Harriet Julia Campbell Jephson

He says the war is not nearly done and that there will be many months of fighting and prize-taking still.

The Windy Hill Cornelia Meigs 1928

He says the war is not nearly done and that there will be many months of fighting and prize-taking still.

The Windy Hill 1922

The white bad man is the worst bad man of the world, and the prize-taking bad man of the lot is the Western white bad man.

The Story of the Outlaw A Study of the Western Desperado Emerson Hough 1890

Ruskin's unstinted praise of this little band of artists was so great that he convinced even his wife of the truth of his view; and as we know, she fell in love with Millais, "the prize-taking cub," and they were married and lived happily ever after.

Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 13 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Lovers Elbert Hubbard 1885

Forced after that to be idle, as far as prize-taking was concerned, for more than a year, he seized two French vessels on the

The Life of Thomas, Lord Cochrane, Tenth Earl of Dundonald, Vol. II Thomas Barnes Cochrane Dundonald 1873

He had for ever crushed the power of Portugal in South America; he had added vast provinces to the imperial dominion, and had thus augmented the imperial revenues by considerably more than a million dollars a-year, besides the great and immediate profits of his prize-taking.

The Life of Thomas, Lord Cochrane, Tenth Earl of Dundonald, G.C.B., Admiral of the Red, Rear-Admiral of the Fleet, Etc., Etc. Vol. I Thomas Barnes Cochrane Dundonald 1873