Of course Beardsley used some heavy words-he always did when things did not go to suit him-and then he said, as if he were almost on the point of crying with vexation: It's too bad for them cowardly Yankees to come Pirating around here just at this time when we've got a big fortune in our hands.
"Marcy The Blockade Runner"
Harry Castlemon
In other countries, people have not cried out; on the contrary, they have eagerly set about Pirating or spoiling it, because money was to be gained thereby.
"A Philosophical Dictionary, Volume 5 (of 10) From "The Works of Voltaire - A Contemporary Version""
François-Marie Arouet (AKA Voltaire) Commentator: John Morley Tobias Smollett H.G. Leigh
Even Pirating wasn't such good fun.
"Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1902 to 1903"
Lucy Maud Montgomery