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There comes a time in a man's life when he hears the call of the sea. If the man has a brain in his ...

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I want you to lie to me just as sweetly as you know how for the rest of my life.

It was a black and hooded head; and hanging there in the midst of so intense a calm, it seemed the S...

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Man cannot spend all his time doing evil, and even in the company of pirates there must be some swee...

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Honoré de BalzacThe Human Comedy: Selected Stories

Day and night, their frail and crippled ships defy the tempest.

I'm no longer a child and I still want to be, to live with the pirates. Because I want to live forev...

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A taste for adventure is by no means a masculine monopoly.

She found out that having something to do prevented you from feeling seasick, and that even a job li...

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The HISPANIOLA still lay where she had anchored; but, sure enough, there was the Jolly Roger--the bl...

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Three,' reckoned the captain, 'ourselves make seven, counting Hawkins, here. Now, about honest hands...

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Alexander Smollett, master; David Livesey, ship's doctor; Abraham Gray, carpenter's mate; John Trela...

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Can you imagine those poor bastards grappling their prey, leaping over the rails, swords in hand, sc...

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Scott LynchRed Seas Under Red Skies

Some pirates achieved immortality by great deeds of cruelty or derring-do. Some achieved immortality...

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Mr. Bird flung his food away and leaped to his feet, glaring around at no one in particular. 'I am n...

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It's better to swim in the sea belowThan to swing in the air and feed the crow,Says jolly Ned Teach ...

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