After France had taken possession of Tortugas, it came about quite naturally that the French buccaneers found themselves better treated in that port than the English filibusters or the Dutch Sea-Rovers.
"Plotting in Pirate Seas"
Francis Rolt-Wheeler
He joined the filibusters and has made energetic efforts to get shot but had not succeeded at last accounts, although we hear he has been "slewd" numerously.
"The Complete Works of Artemus Ward, Part 1"
Charles Farrar Browne
In the back rooms of these saloons South Sea Island traders and captains, fresh from the lands of romance, whaling masters, people who were trying to get up treasure expeditions, filibusters, Alaskan miners, used to meet and trade adventures.
"Complete Story of the San Francisco Horror"
Richard Linthicum Trumbull White Samuel Fallows