How To Use Freebooter In A Sentence
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He could feel a deep dread building that he might be reduced to a penniless freebooter as quickly as he had risen to prominence.
RISE OF A MERCHANT PRINCE: BOOK TWO OF THE SERPENTWAR SAGA
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Cantankerous, colorful, and roiled by clashing personalities, this eclectic confederacy of dirtbags, freebooters, and aristocrats represents the crowning ambition of working guides all across America.
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Its first occupation had been by British freebooters, who "squatted" there a very few years after Jamaica fell.
The Interest of America in Sea Power, Present and Future
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Free discussion has replaced freebootery; skilled negotiation must replace the skill at arms that formerly won trading empires.
Trade: Canada's Lifeblood
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Hence the term ‘filibuster,’ derived from the Spanish filibustero, or freebooter, meaning ‘pirate.’
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It is to be feared that in roving among those shelves in Great Russell-street he showed himself something of a freebooter, taking his "bien" wherever it was to be found; but did not Molière frankly acknowledge the same practice?
Birds of Prey
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Powerful merchant companies drove the process forward, and on the outermost fringe or cutting edge of empire, the aggressive initiative often came from a bizarre mixture of adventurers, freebooters, and pirates.
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The occasional fanner or traveler we saw shied away from us, no doubt thinking, True, there are only two of them, but judging from their faces, they2re the advance party for a terrible bunch of freebooters.
Virginity
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As a schoolboy I remember the pride with which I hailed Robin Hood, Robert Bruce, and Robert le Diable as my name-fellows; and the feeling of sore disappointment that fell on my heart when I found a freebooter or a general who did not share with me a single one of my numerous praenomina.
Lay Morals
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It was the classic behavior of unfettered freebooters, and it ended in the familiar way.
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He was attended by certain clans of the Highlands -- desperadoes used to freebootery from their infancy, and consequently to the use of arms, and possessed of a certain species of discipline.
The Romany Rye A Sequel to 'Lavengro'
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It may be asked, why should these men be called freebooters if the founders of
The Great Boer War
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However he had been driven to consort with outlaws, and to live a kind of freebooter's life, his natural sweetness was unspoiled, and was reinforced by solemn veneration for the sanctity of the Lord's anointing, which he reverenced all the more because himself had received it.
Expositions of Holy Scripture Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges, Ruth, and First Book of Samuel, Second Samuel, First Kings, and Second Kings chapters I to VII
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But other local warlords, who have access to drug money and other resources, continue to expand their forces or draw freebooters to their ranks.
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Those Scandinavian freebooters called Northmen, and later Normans, were the scourge of the kingdom.
A Short History of France
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A certain Dutch freebooter, however, Simon Danzer by name, a native of Dordrecht, who had been alternately in the service of Spain,
PG Edition of Netherlands series — Complete
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These whores join a rich cast of freebooters, gamblers and politicians.
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The term filibuster traces back to the Spanish word filibustero or pirate (itself derived from the Dutch vrijbuiter or freebooter) and refers to the capacity of obstructionist legislators to hijack or "pirate" legislative debate.
Jerome Karabel: Bring Back the Cots! The Filibuster and Health Care Reform
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Bismarck taught the king to bury the Prussian towns in an avalanche of votes from newly enfranchised and resentful peasants, who he rallied with demagogic rhetoric, calling the perfectly reasonable Prussian liberals "loafers, freebooters, all sorts of scum.
The Shrewdest of the Shrewd
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On receiving the report of their scouts, the freebooters determined on the desperate venture.
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The process, compounding the turmoil and collapse of 1979-80, gradually de-professionalized the armed forces and gave power to a variety of ethnic-regional factions, self-serving warlords, and criminal freebooters.
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His tales involve a rogue's gallery of European freebooters with names like John Blackthorne, Ian Dunross, and Tab Thumpchest.
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It enters, for instance, with grave humour into the strong distinction taken in the debatable land between a "freebooter" and a "thief," and the difficulty which the inland counties had in grasping it, and paints for us, with great vivacity, the various Border superstitions.
Sir Walter Scott (English Men of Letters Series)
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And now I had proof of Haluk freebootery in the inner galactic whorl to add to the pile of accumulating evidence against them, plus some interesting questions that needed answers:
Sagittarius Whorl
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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
Jacqueline of the Carrier-Pigeons
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a new scheme for holding up travellers for the purpose of robbery, and many of them evidently thought me a kind of freebooter, who ought to be suppressed by law.
The old Santa Fe trail The Story of a Great Highway
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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
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The French adventurers, however, seem always to have restricted the word "boucanier" to its proper signification, that of a hunter and curer of meat; and when they developed into corsairs, by a curious contrast they adopted an English name and called themselves "filibustiers," which is merely the French sailor's way of pronouncing the English word "freebooter." [
The Buccaneers in the West Indies in the XVII Century
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Rinaldo's men were lawless, and sometimes the supplies were not furnished in sufficient abundance, so that Rinaldo and his garrison got a bad name for taking by force what they could not obtain by gift; and we sometimes find Montalban spoken of as a nest of freebooters, and its defenders called a beggarly garrison.
Legends of Charlemagne
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Freebooters, freebooters, that is all Captain Gruzinov ever seems to talk about.
BLAZE OF GLORY
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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
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In 1891-92 Iran was roiled by protests against a tobacco monopoly granted to a British freebooter, a Major Talbot.
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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
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The honest captain had caught this word from a recent treatise against agrarianism, and having an acquired taste for orders in one sense, at least, he flattered himself with being what is called a Conservative, in other words, he had a strong relish for that maxim of the Scotch freebooter, which is rendered into English by the comely aphorism of "keep what you've got, and get what you can.
Homeward Bound or, the Chase
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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
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The very epitome of the 16th-century military freebooter and vagabond, the landsknecht was rightly feared wherever he went.
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Not long after Ivan the Terrible captured the Tatar city of Kazan in 1552, Russian freebooters acting in the Tsar's name began to penetrate beyond the Urals.
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Mary was to discover he was a ruthless murderer, leader of a gang of freebooters.
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This is a political freebooter and scoundrel who is fated to end up in the company of sinister and fascist-minded elements.
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Captain Thomas Randall, described as a freebooter of the seas, who commanded the "Fox," and sailed for years in and out of New Orleans, where he sold the proceeds of his voyages and captures.
Fifth Avenue
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Trembling with terror of this formidable freebooter (for he placed no belief in the declaration that he was the prince of Scotland), the man obeyed, and Bruce breaking the seals, found, as he expected, a long epistle from the regent, urging the sanguinary aim of his communications.
The Scottish Chiefs
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Here he arranged for the capture of Bowles, and soon the freebooter was brought to New Orleans in chains, and from thence sent to Madrid, in Spain, where we must leave him for the present.
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Tribute formerly paid to freebooters along the scottish border for protection from pillage.
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His people, leaderless, turned into freebooters and mercenaries, spreading chaos wherever they went.
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They are twin-spirits, and should be friends, but that fortune hath differently cast their lot: but their names shall descend together to the latest days, as the flower of their age and of England: for in the pure principles of freebootery have they excelled all men; and to the principles of freebootery, diversely developed, belong all the qualities to which song and story concede renown.
Maid Marian
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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
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He could feel a deep dread building that he might be reduced to a penniless freebooter as quickly as he had risen to prominence.
RISE OF A MERCHANT PRINCE: BOOK TWO OF THE SERPENTWAR SAGA
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As a schoolboy I remember the pride with which I hailed Robin Hood, Robert Bruce, and Robert le Diable as my name - fellows; and the feeling of sore disappointment that fell on my heart when I found a freebooter or a general who did not share with me a single one of my numerous praenomina.
Lay Morals
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A duello commenced of longbow against crossbow; and as the freebooters could deliver near a dozen shafts to each bolt, they more than held their own.
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Only Sir Francis Drake and other naval freebooters enjoyed success.
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Shortly after the Civil War, the ‘dispossessed and freebooters,’ as one rancher described them, established sprawling cattle ranches on the rich bottomlands of the Yellowstone River.
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Cantankerous, colorful, and roiled by clashing personalities, this eclectic confederacy of dirtbags, freebooters, and aristocrats represents the crowning ambition of working guides all across America.