Romances and Narratives: The King of the piratesJ. M. Dent & Company, 1895 |
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acquainted adventures afterwards Anthony Lamb Applebee's began Bermudas sloop Bizeau Blewet bloody Blueskin boat boatswain booty brought Calais called Captain Avery carried Cartouche Clare Market coach coast committed crew crimes cruise Defoe desperate door Edgworth Elizabeth Lyon England English escape execution farther Febvre fellows frighted gallows gang gave gentlemen give gone guns heard highwaymen immediately island John Gow John Sheppard Jonathan Wild killed kind knew lady Lisle lived Madagascar man-of-war manner master murder never Newgate night obliged occasion Old Bailey Paris particular persons pieces of eight pirates pistol pretended prisoners prize resolved rest robbed robbery rogues sail says our author seems sent servants Sheppard ship shore sloop soon story street taken thief thieves things thought told took trade villainies voyage watch wicked word
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Сторінка 274 - I may help you to it for less, and if I can I will. The persons that have it are gone out of town ; I shall set them to quarrelling about it, and then I shall get it the cheaper.
Сторінка 273 - But hearing nothing of it, I went to Jonathan's house again, and then met with him. He desired me to give him a description of the persons that I suspected, which I did as near as I could ; and then he told me...
Сторінка 371 - ... good purchase to be made too ; in a word, they must be fools that did not see it was the best business of its kind they could go about, and there was room also for the whole gang to come in if they thought fit. On a sudden we found street-robberies became the common practice, conversation was full of the variety of them, the newspapers had them every day, and sometimes more than were ever committed ; and those that were committed were set off by the invention of the writers, with so many particulars,...
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