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- noun Plural form of
freebooter .
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Examples
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Freebooters, freebooters, that is all Captain Gruzinov ever seems to talk about.
BLAZE OF GLORY SIMON HAWKE 1995
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Freebooters, freebooters, that is all Captain Gruzinov ever seems to talk about.
BLAZE OF GLORY SIMON HAWKE 1995
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Freebooters, freebooters, that is all Captain Gruzinov ever seems to talk about.
BLAZE OF GLORY SIMON HAWKE 1995
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Another source of recruits for the freebooters were the indentured servants or _engagés_.
The Buccaneers in the West Indies in the XVII Century Clarence Henry Haring 1922
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It may be asked, Why should these men be called freebooters if the founders of
The War in South Africa Its Cause and Conduct Arthur Conan Doyle 1894
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It may be asked, why should these men be called freebooters if the founders of
The Great Boer War Arthur Conan Doyle 1894
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Ingilram's days -- ay, and I remember them as it were yesterday -- the freebooters were the best welcome men that came to Saint Mary's.
The Monastery Walter Scott 1801
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But within the town were only a small corps of burgher guards, and "freebooters" under the command of brave John Van der
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In Abbot Ingilram’s days — ay, and I remember them as it were yesterday — the freebooters were the best welcome men that came to Saint Mary’s.
The Monastery 2008
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On the other hand, there were no troops in the town, save a small corps of "freebooters," and five companies of the burgher guard.
The Rise of the Dutch Republic — Volume 21: 1573-74 John Lothrop Motley 1845
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