Why, I guess you've been reading about Captain Kidd and blackbeard and those old pirates, and have got your head full of secret lairs and all that sort of stuff.
"The Hilltop Boys on Lost Island"
Cyril Burleigh
It was, said one of them, as if blackbeard had settled down as a decent merchant in Bristol on the spoils of the Main.
"The Woman in Black"
Edmund Clerihew Bentley
blackbeard would quell the mutiny of his old self within him and go soberly down to his counting-house-humming a stave or two of "Spanish Ladies," perhaps, under his breath.
"The Woman in Black"
Edmund Clerihew Bentley