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Sea robber   /si rˈɑbər/   Listen
Sea robber

noun
1.
Someone who robs at sea or plunders the land from the sea without having a commission from any sovereign nation.  Synonyms: buccaneer, pirate, sea rover.






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"Sea robber" Quotes from Famous Books



... at war with every other man, has a perpetual right to reduce him to servitude if he has the power. It is the cardinal doctrine of what John Quincy Adams has very properly styled the Satanic school of philosophy,—the ethics of an old Norse sea robber or an Arab plunderer of caravans. It is as widely removed from the sweet humanities and unselfish benevolence of Christianity as the faith and practice of the East India Thug or ...
— The Complete Works of Whittier - The Standard Library Edition with a linked Index • John Greenleaf Whittier

... softening haze of two centuries, the figure of the redoubtable sea robber acquires a romantic interest, and it is not surprising that many good and highly respected citizens of eastern North Carolina number themselves quite complacently among the descendants ...
— In Ancient Albemarle • Catherine Albertson



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