Sentence examples for buccaneer from inspiring English sources

Palgrave Macmillan; 420 pages; $30.In this section In need of a green revolution Heavens above Starry, starry night To have and to hold A sonata in two movements Don't be aloof ReprintsIN THE 1920s a well-connected, smooth-talking buccaneer from the east coast of America rode a caravan of horses across western China.

Conservatives have long celebrated Mr Murdoch as a kindred spirit and business buccaneer.

In 1992 Art Spiegelman (one of the long-hairs who talked Mr Eisner back to drawing) won a Pulitzer prize for his two-volume graphic novel, "Maus", the story of his father's survival in Auschwitz.The mark of CainMr Eisner's first teenage comic strips were what most teenagers might produce: a buccaneer saga called "Hawks of the Seas", and the six-inch-high "Doll Man".

Andrew Regan, the would-be raider, has retreated and is now being questioned by the Serious Fraud Office; Hambros, the bank that backed him, has grovelled; and Graham Melmoth, chief executive of the CWS, is being praised for his canny defensive intelligence.Mr Regan, who does not allow himself to be photographed smiling, certainly fits the bill as a dastardly buccaneer.

Michael Scaglione of Marine Exploration, another treasure-hunting outfit, has found the flagship of the famous buccaneer Henry Morgan, near Haiti.

But its monsters grow tackier by the minute first giant metallic ladybirds, then gun-toting rhinos, while Gary Oldman's space buccaneer cradles a familiar that is part Dumbo, part Babar the elephant.Common to all these films is a lack of faith in the genre itself.

Archaeologists found the original Jamestown in the 1990s, uncovering not a village but a "fortified trading post" built by "buccaneer merchant-adventurers" similar to those seen in India and West Africa, says Tom Davidson, a curator of the foundation that oversees the settlement.

There is scarcely a rock on which a buccaneer may take shelter; not an island where a pirate may safely nestle.

And much more is planned: T. Boone Pickens, a famous local corporate buccaneer, plans eventually to install 4,000MW-worth 4,000MW-worthin the panhandle, and tofbuild his owindmillsinsion line thethe main grid.Wind is inherently variable, so it can never companhandle the cheandand dirto coal that generates half of America's electricity.

The island of Puerto Rico became Spanish in 1508, almost a century before English buccaneer-adventurers splashed ashore at Jamestown in Virginia.

In "Skylight," Gambon's buccaneer-like quality suits the part of Tom Sergeant, who has returned to his old mistress after his wife's death.