Barbary Coast pirate

Usage examples of corsair.

An Algerine corsair took them off the Munster coast and I mean to send them back to their parents, peasants in a village I know.

I have been aboard an Algerine corsair and a Sallee rover, and since their chief aim is to take by boarding, they are usually very full of men.

Aquilonia will remember me as Conan of the Barachan pirates, or Amra of the black corsairs.

They also wanted me on the fleet that is set to deal with the Aragonese, Barbary corsairs and the Genovese, too.

The Corsairs had lit lanterns up and down the length of the galleot shortly before the collision, so that Spaniards running up from belowdecks, rubbing sleep out of their eyes, would be presented with the reassuring sight of oarsmen who were still safely in chains, and free crew members who were unarmed and disorganized.

Haluk corsairs are indeed operating in the Sagittarian arm of the galaxy, they do so without the authorization of our Sovereign Haluk Confederation.

Achardus in his palace, her wicked little brother Beynor, King Olmigon of Cathra, the fleet of Tarnian mercenaries, the distant Southern Continent where the corsairs of Foraile and Stippen were gathering, Crown Prince Honigalus and his armada, and Conrig and his invasion force.

Or vice versa, since she saw that the corsair fleets of Stippen and Foraile also remained in port.

They knew, too, that they might be days before meeting with a ship, for all traders in the Mediterranean hugged the northern shores as much as possible in order to avoid the dreaded corsairs, and there would be a far greater chance of their being recaptured by one of the Moorish cruisers than of lighting upon a Christian trader.

English gentleman who had rescued him and his daughter from the hands of the Moors, it being incidentally mentioned that he had sailed in the Armada, and that he had fallen into the hands of the corsairs in the course of a voyage made with his friend Mr.

Facing him were two corsairs, gaudily dressed in leggings and shirts of bright yellow silk.

The corsairs were about to attack, and surely the drunken man would be cut down.

There was a continual buzz of space traffic between Nar Shaddaa and the far-flung systems of the galaxy: mighty transgalactic transports and bulk cargo vessels, the garish yachts and caravels of the Hutt ganglords, the battle-scarred corsairs of the mercenaries and bounty hunters, the pirate brigantines, and even the occasional commercial passenger liner, packet starjam-mer, or massive migration arks.

Circumstances - violent as usual -made him a pirate along the coasts of Kush, with a crew of black corsairs and the Shemitish she-pirate Belit as his partner.

A light breeze which was blowing from the south might have carried us to Corfu in ten hours, but when we had sailed about one hour my cayabouchiri informed me that he could see by the moonlight a ship which might prove to be a corsair, and get hold of us.