freebooter

How to use freebooter in a sentence

• Of life and property a fierce freebooter despoiled mankind; over the ways beset by him might no one living pass.

  The Elder Eddas of Saemund Sigfusson; and the Younger Eddas of Snorre Sturleson | Saemund Sigfusson and Snorre Sturleson

• Bootmakers, like tailors, commonly sit cross-legged at their work, and hold pronounced political views; hence the term freebooter.

  Mr. Punch's History of Modern England Vol. IV of IV. | Charles L. Graves

• The freebooter of the green-pea trade touched his wet forelock respectfully.

  Captain Scraggs | Peter B. Kyne

• We soon discovered crab-claws projecting from its shell, and recognized it as a hermit-crab, an original freebooter.

  Petals Plucked from Sunny Climes | Sylvia Sunshine

• Johnnie Armstrong, the famous Border freebooter, took his title from this place, whereof not a stone remains.

  The Rivers of Great Britain; Rivers of the South and West Coasts | Various