Ten years Quote by Leo Tolstoy

“any rational privateer would have long since scuttled southwards until the weather improved. No prize could be boarded in this. By”

— Julian Stockwin

“Word has traveled quickly that just because you're on island doesn't mean you have to be stranded---as long as you have cash.”

— Doug Cooper

“I bow to the Captain—I think a curtsy would be a bit out of place here—and recite, in French, the little speech I had…

— L.A. Meyer

“And then he leaves us to our own devices beside a store of gunpowder and flint and a cannon, thereby solidifying our captors’ reputation…

— Mackenzi Lee

“a crew of pirates are driven by a storm they know not whither; at length a boy discovers land from the topmast; they go…

— Jonathan Swift

“Ye are a scoundrel, a black-hearted robber and a rogue,' Stubble said cheerily to the grumbling captain. It was his usual way of haggling,…

— Ian Livingstone

“He has robbed none except officials who have stolen from the missions and the poor, and punished none except brutes who mistreat natives.”

— Johnston McCulley

“To catch an outlaw, hire an outlaw...”

— L.J. Martin

“In the immediate nearness of the gold, all else had been forgotten [...], and I could not doubt that he hoped to seize upon…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

“Some came for sheer love of adventure and wanted no reward beyond that; some wanted fame or its counterfeit, publicity; some were mercenary and…

— Lawrence McKinley Gould

“Not one spark of spirit, not one symptom of resistance, would they have shown till the hand of the Corsican bandit had grasped that…

— Charlotte Brontë

“He who has never left his hearth and has confined his researches to the narrow field of the history of his own country cannot…

— Al Masudi