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pirates

noun as in buccaneer

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In a bizarre matchup, the Pirates of the Caribbean actor came for the 20-year-old singer this past July in Ibiza.

But like all lost treasure in this part of the world, it's something that will either be found by the people, or by the pirates.

In the special, Workman plays the old man who, as a cabin boy, watched the pirates bury their treasure.

Indeed, there are whole generations who only know him in his slurry buccaneer phase from Pirates of the Caribbean.

“There are good pirates — but people say pirates are always bad,” said Mugisha.

We set them down as pirates, and awaited the upshot with a considerable degree of uneasiness.

The necessity of reducing these pirates is acknowledged in every prince's cabinet; yet no one undertakes their reduction.

The Indian Ocean, meanwhile, swarmed with pirates of whose rapacity and cruelty frightful stories were told.

The Mediterranean Sea in those days was infested by pirates sailing from the Moorish ports.

Such was the first lesson which the sailors of the new nation gave to the pirates of the Mediterranean.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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