Privateers

Then certain Southern privateers got lists of the New England whale-ships that were out, and lay in wait for them as whalers lie in wait for the leviathan. ❋ Elbert Hubbard (1885)

The privateers were a resource in the interval ... they were really the armed force of the country. ' ❋ Rosalind Northcote (N/A)

The captains were called privateers, as were the ships. ❋ Charles Hemstreet (N/A)

Among the captures by the privateers was a 13-inch brass mortar weighing nearly three thousand pounds, which was taken to Cambridge, where (according to the same veracious narrator of the “powder cry,” the witty Provincial colonel), it was the occasion of a great jubilation. ❋ Over, Frederick A (1904)

ARTICLE I. -- It is hereby agreed and stipulated, that all prisoners of war, held by either party, including those taken on private armed vessels, known as privateers, shall be exchanged upon the conditions and terms following: ❋ John McElroy (1887)

A somewhat full discussion is due, inasmuch as the distress to commerce wrought by the privateers was a large factor in bringing the sea nations to wish for peace; just as the subsidies, which their commerce enabled them to pay the continental armies, besides keeping up their own, were the chief means by which the war was prolonged and ❋ Unknown (1877)

Among the privateers was the Antelope, which was one of those that had come in on the previous afternoon. ❋ Unknown (1867)

The targets of the privateers are the public interest and public goods. ❋ Dennis Loo (2010)

The time-honored solution: Hire private warriors - known as privateers to some, pirates to others - to do the fighting. ❋ Unknown (2009)

In more recent centuries, European countries such as Britain cracked down on pirates except when busy enlisting certain ones, dubbed "privateers," to help them fight their wars by raiding enemy ships. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Arming merchant ships both for self-protection and at times as auxiliary warships empowered to attack pirates or the shipping of an enemy nation as "privateers" often just created more pirate ships. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Pirates were designated "privateers" when they bought or were otherwise granted letters of marque and reprisal by their own governments. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Modyford (1620-1679), was in close alliance with the "privateers," which was the official title of the buccaneers. ❋ Various (N/A)

Moreover, nine-tenths of the actual blockade-running still going on was by British ships, and this being so it was to be presumed that "privateers" searching for possible blockade runners would commit all sorts of indignities and interferences with ❋ Ephraim Douglass Adams (N/A)

It has even placed "privateers" in the International Space Station. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Tinniswood, the author of several works of English history, explains that for all the talk of a confrontation between Christianity and Islam, the most notorious corsairs were European renegades who had learned the trade on "privateers," or private warships commissioned by a government to prey on enemy merchantmen. ❋ By IAN W. TOLL (2010)

Certainly, letters of Marque were issued to "privateers" who were nothing more than licensed pirates given orders to prey on the ships of enemies of the host state. ❋ Unknown (2009)

[2 year old] in tub: "Mommy, my private can [float on] the water!" Me: "[That's great] sweetie, now stop touching it ok?" ❋ Ms. Chocolate (2006)

Some [parents] tell their children to [wash] their privates [in the bath]. ❋ Bowman (2002)

Chad : Wow don't you just love It when [Kiersten] wears Shorts to work! Craig : Oh you can kinda see her Privates when she bends over! Chad : And don't you just love it when Jim wears Shorts to work too! Craig : [Fuck dude] I was thinking about pussy and you had to say that! Chad : It kinda gives you an idea of what his Privates look like when he bends over! Craig : [Just shut the fuck up]! ❋ SlopNChop (2017)

JOHNNY [GET OUT OF MY ROOM] I AM DOING SOMETHING [PRIVATE] [YOU DUMB] SHIT ❋ Cool Kid Who 'bout To Roast Yo (2020)

Make a [deep] [copy] to [ensure] privateness?? ❋ Pjetoles (2017)

[How's it going] boss? [Leave me alone] [private]. ❋ Captainboss (2009)

[Privatization's] [all the rage] in [Washington] right now. ❋ Xyzzy (2005)

We did in private because it was so great, we [might] have [done] something [illegal]. ❋ Kris2_Mason (2009)

SGT: hey high speed didn't i tell you pick that shit up off the side walk. [PVT]: well what you see happend is i was going too but then i was hit by a car and i forgot. SGT: I don't wanna hear [that bullshit] [pvt], now get to picking that shit up, before i make you do some fucking flutter kicks you fucking scumbag. ❋ Mike Jones (2004)

Person 1 Oh [look it's] [private] Person 2 [RUN] ❋ OhNoHe'sHere (2020)