1
If she is a British privateer we may be saved yet.
2
Crews and passengers were flung ashore without food or clothing, were abused, insulted, or perhaps impressed in British privateers.
3
They sailed from Boston, and were out but a few days when they captured a British privateer of fourteen guns.
4
Elizabethan England had neither silver mines nor spice islands, but the deficiency was never felt while British privateers sailed the seas.
5
"And how came you, sir, to be chief officer on board a British privateer?" now demanded Renouf.
6
This cruise resulted in the capture by the Washington of several vessels, among them the Robust, Lord Sandwich, Barrington, and the Spitfire, a British privateer.
7
"That innocent-looking merchantman is a British privateer," quoth he; "and it's a shame to harbor her in the good port of Boston, amid French-loving people."