Quotes About Privateer

any rational privateer would have long since scuttled southwards until the weather improved. No prize could be boarded in this. By

Captain Kidd, the privateer, in his voyage over from England in the Adventure had already legally captured a French fishing vessel off the banks of New Foundland with a crew of four. The conquest had resembled more a ritual

John Atkins, the naval surgeon, spoke of the transition from privateer to pirate as going from "plundering for others, to do it for themselves.

every pirate and privateer has lurking within him the soul of an accountant. Though some would say 'tis the other way round.

The only difference between a pirate and a privateer is a flag

Sturmhond, a privateer from the second book in the series, Siege and Storm,' is probably my favorite character. He's pure confidence and that's always fun to write.

I certainly shall, sir. Anything for a quiet life is my motto.' 'And yet you were in a privateer.' 'Yes, sir. I was running away from a young woman: the same as when I left the Charleston horse-leech.

But chivalry's day is over. One day soon moss will grow in the tilt yard. The days of the moneylender have arrived, and the days of the swaggering privateer; banker sits down with banker, and kings are their waiting boys.

The days of the moneylender have arrived, and the days of the swaggering privateer; banker sits down with banker, and kings are their waiting boys.