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sea rover

noun as in pirate

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They were bronzed and clear-eyed, these sea rovers, beguiling the journey with gay speech and with deep, mighty laughs.

I can see no other reason for the growth of Ravello and La Scala than the paramount necessity in the early Middle Ages of safety from sea rovers.

The origin of the Buccaneers, or hunters, and the Flibustiers, or sea rovers, as the Dutch called them, was contemporaneous.

“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.

It may perhaps be explained by remembering that Tory Island, or Toirinis, was a stronghold of the Fomorians, whom Keating describes as "sea rovers of the race of Cam, who fared from Africa."

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

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