Sentence examples for Barbary pirate from inspiring English sources

Barbary pirate, any of the Muslim pirates operating from the coast of North Africa, at their most powerful during the 17th century but still active until the 19th century.

In 1801, the young American nation blockaded Tripoli harbor because its Barbary pirate masters increased the protection money demanded from American ships sailing the Mediterranean.

He has always had the soul of a Barbary pirate and never worried about negative consequences -- and has always had good results with his intimidating play.

1546 Barbarossa, ( Italian: "Redbeard") byname of Khayr al-Dīn, original name Khiḍr (died 1546) Barbary pirate and later admiral of the Ottoman fleet, by whose initiative Algeria and Tunisia became part of the Ottoman Empire.

John Milius comments on his "Wind and the Lion" (1975), another Warner poll winner, which stars Sean Connery as a Barbary pirate, Mulay Achmed Mohammed el-Raisuli the Magnificent, loose on the Moroccan coast, and Brian Keith as a very bully Theodore Roosevelt.

Other public school boys, admittedly, took their interest in foreign culture a bit too far: Philby's son Kim, who went to his father's school, became a Soviet spy, and Sir Francis Verney, an Old Etonian, became a Barbary pirate in the 1600s.

The raids of Barbary pirates discouraged settlement along the coast until the 19th century.

He was allegedly captured at sea by Barbary pirates but escaped.

The Barbary pirates actually had an ambassador — who met with Jefferson and Adams, no less.

But the Barbary pirates' bravado became their demise -- something the Somalis might keep in mind.

The United States tried to play nice with the Barbary pirates and even inked a few treaties.