sea rover

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Breezy, blunt Cap Rieber, an office-bound sea rover who feels equally at home in any of the world's ports, was boss of Texas' tanker fleet, and made a specialty of pushing sales of Texaco abroad.

From Time Magazine Archive

In 1851 Lennox-Boyd's great uncle, Benjamin Boyd, a wealthy London broker turned sea rover, rowed off from his yacht Wanderer for a spot of hunting on one of the Solomon Islands.

From Time Magazine Archive

"But if Blackbeard searches for the wreck, or if some of those pirates rejoin him, Joe——" "But me no more buts," snapped the sea rover.

From Blackbeard: Buccaneer by Schoonover, Frank Earle

I hauled it down with mine own hands from a pirate ship in my youth, when we captured the bark of that nefarious sea rover Captain Anthony.

From Marjorie by McCarthy, Justin H. (Justin Huntly)

“Here comes a sea rover now,” called Merry, 160 scanning the entrance to the harbor where a ship could be seen outlined against the blue.

From The Motor Maids' School Days by Stokes, Katherine