Would not our captors sooner throw us overboard, than be taken in the fact of piracy and kidnapping on the high seas?
"A Lady's Captivity among Chinese Pirates in the Chinese Seas"
Fanny Loviot
But he had postponed his own private piracy too long.
"Command"
William McFee
The ubiquitous Phoenicians, who are considered to have been the earliest of the commercial tribes, were by no means entirely free from the charge of piracy, which seems to have been almost universal upon this central sea in the earlier and middle ages.
"The Story of Malta"
Maturin M. Ballou