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“Perhaps she has been plundering some English vessel, and for what we can tell she may have fallen in with the ‘Lady Alice.’”

From The Two Whalers Adventures in the Pacific by Kingston, William Henry Giles

"But, he cannot suppose, Doctor," Harry said indignantly, "that we are going to fight for such a rascal as he is against the men he has been plundering."

From Among Malay Pirates : a Tale of Adventure and Peril by Henty, G. A. (George Alfred)