Air Pirates

UnLondon is full of quirky magic, sly humor, and engaging, imaginative personages from the outlandish to the silly--reanimated rubbish that has seeped across the barrier from London, giant flies manned by crews of air-pirates, people with pincushions or diving helmets or occupied birdcages for heads. ❋ A. Fortis (2007)

But at any time such a village would be liable to a raid of Asiatics or Africans or such-like air-pirates, demanding petrol and alcohol or provisions. ❋ Herbert George (2006)

This pretense to Literacy is a phase most boys of Ray's age pass through; they do it just as they play air-pirates or hi-jackers a few years earlier. ❋ H. Beam Piper (1934)

You are fortresses to fight in; you are shelters from air-pirates, you hide cannon; you give shelter to your fighting countrymen from rain and heat. ❋ Unknown (1889)

She would climb the rugged old hemlocks now and then for the sake of a wide outlook, or to peep into the large nest where a hawk, or it may be an eagle, was raising her little brood of air-pirates. ❋ Oliver Wendell Holmes (1851)

Frau entered the church after the Barsburg Empire obliterated the air-pirates. ❋ Unknown (2009)

a hawk, or it may be an eagle, was raising her little brood of air-pirates. ❋ Oliver Wendell Holmes (1851)