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"If she sees us, and takes us on board, she will carry us to some land, whence we may proceed to Italy." "You forget that, to the hunted pirate, all men are enemies," answered Zappa, bitterly. "I could not venture on board a merchant-vessel, without the risk of being recognised, and, if my eyes deceive me not, yonder craft is no peaceful trader, but rather a British ship of war."
There are only six of them. Let them come on. I'd love to tell that collie next door, when we get home, that I had bitten a real pirate. Let 'em come. We can fight them." "But they have pistols and swords," said the Doctor. "No, that would never do. I must talk to him.... Look here, Ben Ali "
He was told of von Moll's mysterious activities, of Smith's suspicious conduct, of the Emperor's fixed determination to get the island back for Konrad Karl. He professed to regard the whole business as a bore. "Buried treasure, pirate hoards and other mysteries," he said, "have no kind of attraction for me. I feel sort of discouraged when they bubble up round me.
One of the best of his histories is that which describes the life of Harald Haardraade, who, after manifold adventures by land and sea, now a pirate, now a mercenary of the Greek emperor, became King of Norway, and eventually perished at the battle of Stanford Bridge, whilst engaged in a gallant onslaught upon England.
I do not, in consequence, think we are suspected; for it is very natural that the gruff old pirate, who seems to act as lieutenant-governor, or major-domo, of the castle I scarcely know what to call him should not think fit to leave a party of strangers at liberty to wander about and examine into the state of his defences.
The other smiled. "Why, I'm Captain Jack," he said quietly. "I see," said Frank. "And your ship a submarine, I note a war vessel, it can be plainly seen. What flag does she fly?" "The black flag," was the smiling reply; "the jolly Roger." "As I thought," said Frank. "A pirate!" His hands dropped to his guns. "We are, in South America, all right."
Nicholson, when painting him, was a good deal preoccupied with the big soft hat and blue shirt and flowing tie, feeling their picturesque value, and turned him into a brigand, a land pirate, to the joy of Henley, whom I always suspected of feeling this value himself and dressing as he did for the sake of picturesqueness.
To writers of this class he is always the German War Lord, ready to pounce, like a highwayman or pirate, on any unprotected person or property he may come across, regardless of treaty obligations, of international disaster, or of the dictates of humanity.
Jeremy, watching, fascinated, from the Tiger's rail, thought of the night when he had first seen that black hull, and of the burning brig that had lit up the sky as the pirate sloop now illumined it. Her fate was the same that she had meted out to many a good ship. They were rapidly drawing away, now. The great glare of the burning schooner faded out as the flame devoured her fabric.
"It was the funniest thing, Bob, I ever saw in my life neither Ruth's ride on the cow the other day nor her experience with Jerry this morning could compare with the way that old Scotchman hopped around, waving his shovel in one hand, the turtle dangling from his nose, and swearing like a pirate."
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