buccaneer

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• In fact, the mark ties with that of the 1976-77 Tampa Bay Buccaneers, an expansion team that lost the first 26 games of its existence, the longest losing streak in major American professional sports.
• Unlike the buccaneers, who had fired high to cripple their enemies above decks, the French fifed low to smash the hull of their assailant. Captain Blood
• Conservatives longed for the return of a healthy system of independent party politics, freed from the buccaneering methods of an autocratic prime minister and his retainers.
• But just as the buccaneers moved their sights from building societies to life companies, so too the friendly societies may yet meet their Waterloo.
• Those unwilling to concede that the corruption is pervasive generally blame rogue buccaneers at a handful of companies.
• And then we were amazed to hear the sound of singing -- amazed, for it was not the uncouth singing of negroes (who in happy circumstances delight to uplift their voices in psalms) nor yet the boisterous untuneable roaring of rough seamen, like Vetch's buccaneers, but a most melodious and pleasing sound, which put me in mind (and Cludde also) of the madrigal singers of our good town of Shrewsbury. Humphrey Bold A Story of the Times of Benbow
• So, midlife, he has decided to launch himself as a buccaneering freelance journalist. Times, Sunday Times
• Borderers, buccaneers, robber, and humorsome people, like Dugald Dalgetty and Bailie Nicol Jarvie and Macwheeble, whom he said he preferred to any person in “Waverley,” were the characters he delighted in. Waverley
• •The scene: After training at Disney's Sports Complex outside Orlando for seven years, the Buccaneers have stayed home for camp at their sprawling, state-of-the-art headquarters, which like their previous digs is affectionately known as One Buc Place. Youth won't stop Bucs' Morris from running old-school camp
• Injuries: Buccaneers: Out: QB Chris Simms (splenectomy). NFL grid: Week 8