piratical

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Piratical Captain Dover once described a vague malaise that sailors often get as acute catarrhal fever.

From Time Magazine Archive

The Society for Piratical Research is now at an end.

From The Old Tobacco Shop A True Account of What Befell a Little Boy in Search of Adventure by Bowen, William

Many years ago a pamphlet was published, purporting to be true, which was entitled, "An Account of Some of the Traditions and Experiments Respecting Captain Kidd's Piratical Vessel."

From The Book of Buried Treasure Being a True History of the Gold, Jewels, and Plate of Pirates, Galleons, etc., which are sought for to this day by Paine, Ralph Delahaye

As Third Vice-President of the Society for Piratical Research, I have the honour to be Chairman of the Daft Committee.

From The Old Tobacco Shop A True Account of What Befell a Little Boy in Search of Adventure by Bowen, William

Piratical swaggering fellows, knife-blades mingled with small hand-projectors fastened to their belts.

From Astounding Stories of Super-Science, May, 1930 by Bates, Harry