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Definition of Corsairs
1. corsair [n] - See also: corsair
Lexicographical Neighbors of Corsairs
Literary usage of Corsairs
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Works of Tennyson by Alfred Tennyson Tennyson, Hallam Tennyson Tennyson (1905)
"The Barbary corsairs, insolent before, now °^» ' became boldly aggressive; and
the coasts of Spain in the Mediterranean were harried by the Muslim from end ..."
2. The Cambridge Modern History by Adolphus William Ward, George Walter Prothero (1907)
"The Barbary corsairs, insolent before, now became boldly aggressive ; and the
... But though Spain had now no foreign foes, the attacks of the corsairs upon ..."
3. The Diplomacy of the United States: Being an Account of the Foreign by Theodore Lyman (1828)
"Barbary powers no longer formidable—Mediterranean always subject to piracies—Remarkable
sea—Celebrated in all ages—Power of corsairs diminished—Once very ..."
4. Verrazano the Navigator: Or, Notes on Giovanni Da Verrazano and on a by James Carson Brevoort (1874)
"CONTARINI ON THE FRENCH corsairs. The Venetian envoy in Spain, at this time, was
the well-known Gaspar Contarini, and we find several allusions in his ..."
5. The Antiquary by Edward Walford, John Charles Cox, George Latimer Apperson (1890)
"they threw up their forced allegiance to Spain, and resumed their piratical tastes
in alliance with the Turkish corsairs of Bar- bary. details are given of ..."
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