Famous pirate

Usage examples of blackbeard.

Blackbeard, Anne Boleyn, Lady Jane Grey, the Headless Horseman, John the Baptist, Louis XVI, Marie Antoinette, Mary Stuart, Medusa, Sir Thomas More, and Maximilien de Robespierre.

J Dodd, blackbearded iscariot, bad shepherd, bearing on his shoulders the drowned corpse of his son, approaches the pillory.

One morning Captain Blackbeard finds that his stock of medicine is low.

There was no answering an argument of such force as this, and the worshipful governor and the good folk of Charleston knew very well that Blackbeard and his crew were the men to do as they promised.

So Blackbeard got his medicine, and though it cost the colony two thousand dollars, it was worth that much to the town to be quit of him.

And now Blackbeard, following the plan adopted by so many others of his kind, began to cudgel his brains for means to cheat his fellows out of their share of the booty.

As for Blackbeard and those who were with him, they were that much richer, for there were so many the fewer pockets to fill.

So up goes Master Blackbeard to the Governor of North Carolina and makes his neck safe by surrendering to the proclamation--albeit he kept tight clutch upon what he had already gained.

And now we find our bold Captain Blackbeard established in the good province of North Carolina, where he and His Worship the Governor struck up a vast deal of intimacy, as profitable as it was pleasant.

Becoming tired of an inactive life, Blackbeard afterward resumed his piratical career.

There he found Blackbeard waiting for him, and as ready for a fight as ever the lieutenant himself could be.

At the very first discharge of their pistols Blackbeard had been shot through the body, but he was not for giving up for that--not he.

But did Blackbeard really bury treasures, as tradition says, along the sandy shores he haunted?

This Anthony told me he had been among the pirates, and that he belonged to one of the sloops in Virginia when Blackbeard was taken.

Teach, known as Blackbeard, to exist, and for the governor and the secretary of the province in which he lived perhaps to share his plunder, and to shelter and to protect him against the law.