Sentence examples similar to sea robber from inspiring English sources
"We have been battered by sea-robbers," says Akinsola Amire of the Nigerian Trawler Owners AssociationNigerian Trawler Owners Association
Whereas piracy off Somalia's lawless coast on the other side of Africa is dwindling, Nigeria's sea-robbers are increasingly confident and sophisticated.
In "Di Yam Gazlonim!" (roughly "The Rascally Robbers of the Sea!"), the pirates of Zhitkovits count among their number not the goodhearted apprentice Frederic but the goodhearted apprentice Fayvl (Jacob Feldman), as well as brigands named Shmuel, Yankl and Mendl.
But then floating cities evoked images of flop films, or worse, of wealthy "robber barons" escaping to the high seas for financial reasons.
"As great robbers as they are to all besides," a sea cook observed in 1709, they "are precisely just among themselves".
The robbers had planned to dump all the weapons used in the robbery into the sea and land without a gun.
What about robber barons?
ROBBER: That's scandalous.
