Freebooters, freebooters, that is all Captain Gruzinov ever seems to talk about. ❋ SIMON HAWKE (1995)
Another source of recruits for the freebooters were the indentured servants or _engagés_. ❋ Clarence Henry Haring (1922)
It may be asked, Why should these men be called freebooters if the founders of ❋ Arthur Conan Doyle (1894)
It may be asked, why should these men be called freebooters if the founders of ❋ Arthur Conan Doyle (1894)
Ingilram's days -- ay, and I remember them as it were yesterday -- the freebooters were the best welcome men that came to Saint Mary's. ❋ Walter Scott (1801)
But within the town were only a small corps of burgher guards, and "freebooters" under the command of brave John Van der ❋ Unknown (1919)
In Abbot Ingilram’s days — ay, and I remember them as it were yesterday — the freebooters were the best welcome men that came to Saint Mary’s. ❋ Unknown (2008)
On the other hand, there were no troops in the town, save a small corps of "freebooters," and five companies of the burgher guard. ❋ John Lothrop Motley (1845)
(Laughter) The last of the "freebooters" was Sir Andrew Barton, who not only took toll from the English people who might be passing his way, but also from all other nationalities that might be sailing those seas, but the rise of the Navy of Henry VIII. and the joining of the thrones on the accession of James VI. of Scotland, or James I. of England, saw the last of the day of the Scotch "freebooter." ❋ Unknown (1906)
Little wonder that French freebooters and later English pirates were given carte blanche by their governments to disrupt the flow of New World bullion to fund Habsburg operations in Europe. ❋ Brendan Simms (2011)
The lash was laid upon their backs, and it was the iron hand of the freebooters of the sea that laid on the lash. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Bismarck taught the king to bury the Prussian towns in an avalanche of votes from newly enfranchised and resentful peasants, who he rallied with demagogic rhetoric, calling the perfectly reasonable Prussian liberals "loafers, freebooters, all sorts of scum." ❋ Geoffrey Wawro (2011)
The gun bunnies of 1/5 Field Artillery and the 6th Field Artillery, dug themselves into the fields around Fort Jay, establishing Firebase Euler, home to the long guns, heavy mortars and rocket batteries that had chopped down wave after wave of pirates, insurgents, and freebooters inside the city. ❋ Unknown (2010)
We can have a lively debate about the difference between pirates, freebooters, and mercenaries. ❋ Unknown (2010)
In time these freebooters were themselves put out of business by the big syndicates, which were savvy enough to remove cash from the equation and powerful enough to scare off freelancing pirates. ❋ DANIEL OKRENT (2010)
Re-uploading someone else's Youtube video to your Youtube channel.
Newspapers [freebooting] by uploading [CGP Grey's] or Brady [Haran's] Youtube videos into their video players to make money from ads.
"Oh those freebooters taking our videos! I'm sick of it. [Freebooting], you know, it's a serious issue!" -Brady Haran ❋ Icanshowyoutheworld (2014)
"Oh those freebooters taking [our videos], I'm sick of it! This [freebooting] is a serious issue, we need to do something about it!"
- Brady Haran, [Hello Internet] #5: [Freebooting]
"Somebody freebooted a clip of our podcast and put it on YouTube"
- C, G. P. Grey, Hello Internet #5: Freebooting ❋ GooseHonk (2014)
"Did you see CGPgrey's video on *[INSERT] COMMON [NEWSPAPER]*['s] website? They're freebooters!" ❋ IllegalLaws (2014)
Someone reposted my video to their YouTube channel, and now their copy went [viral]. I can't believe they're [freebooting] [me like] this! ❋ Viewjacker (2018)
