bucanier

MEDICINE, Dr. Quentin Quackleben, who claimed right to regulate medical matters at the spring, upon the principle which, of old, assigned the property of a newly discovered country to the bucanier who committed the earliest piracy on its shores.

Saint Ronan's Well 2008

Ye same did rede a portion of his "Venus and Adonis," to their prodigious admiration, whereas I, being sleepy and fatigued withal, did deme it but paltry stuff, and was the more discomforted in that ye blody bucanier had got his wind again, and did turn his mind to farting with such villain zeal that presently I was like to choke once more.

1601 Mark Twain 1872

But no inuendoes; Jarl was a Viking, frank as his fathers; though not so much of a bucanier.

Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. I (of 2) Herman Melville 1855

At St. Thomas's they show you a tower, a little distance from the town, which they say formerly belonged to a bucanier chieftain.

Wanderings in South America Charles Waterton 1823

First on the list stood the MAN OF MEDICINE, Dr. Quentin Quackleben, who claimed right to regulate medical matters at the spring, upon the principle which, of old, assigned the property of a newly discovered country to the bucanier who committed the earliest piracy on its shores.

St. Ronan's Well Walter Scott 1801

Plugson, bucanier - like, says to them: "Noble spinners, this is the Hundred

Past and Present Thomas Carlyle 1838

Plugson, bucanier-like, says to them: "Noble spinners, this is the Hundred

Past and Present Thomas Carlyle's Collected Works, Vol. XIII. Thomas Carlyle 1838