A taste for adventure is by no means a masculine monopoly.
Lloyd AlexanderTag: adventure pirates femininity
Don’t look so worried. I’ve sailed the seven seas, and I’ve never had an unsuccessful adventure yet!”
“Really? You’ve sailed all seven seas?” asked Darwin admiringly.
“Every last one!”
“What are the seven seas? I’ve always wondered.”
“Aaarrr. Well, let’s see…” said the Pirate Captain, scratching his craggy forehead. “There’s the North Sea. And that other one, the one near Mozambique. And…what’s that one in Hyde Park?”
“The Serpentine?”
“That’s the one. How many’s that then? Three. Um. There’s the sea with all the rocks in it…I think they call it Sea Number Four. Then that would leave…uh…Grumpy and Sneezy…”
Darwin was starting to look a little less impressed.
“Would you look at that big seagull!” said the Pirate Captain, quickly ducking into a beach hut.
If the pirate with a scarf had been more poetically minded he’d have thought that her eyes were like a thousand emeralds, glittering in a far-off pirate treasure chest. But he wasn’t, so he just thought that she had really really green eyes, a bit like seaweed.
Gideon DefoeYou don't know what it is to live and laugh and love and run a man through! You've never tasted salty air on your tongue or waved heartily at a mermaid!
Gideon DefoeTag: pirates
I see the beginning, I see the end. And in the middle I just hope I don't fall on my ass to much
Shehanne MooreTag: humor pirates battle-of-the-sexes sexy steamy battle-of-the-bedroom histrical-romance rules-on-sex
I'm cap'n here by 'lection. I'm cap'n here because I'm the best man by a long sea-mile. You won't fight, as gentlemen o' fortune should; then, by thunder, you'll obey, and you may lay to it! I like that boy, now; I never seen a better boy than that. He's more a man than any pair of rats of you in this here house, and what I say is this: let me see him that'll lay a hand on him--that's what I say, and you may lay to it.
Robert Louis StevensonTag: pirates long-john-silver treasure-island jim-hawkins
Alexander Smollett, master; David Livesey, ship's doctor; Abraham Gray, carpenter's mate; John Trelawney, owner; John Hunter and Richard Joyce, owner's servants, landsmen--being all that is left faithful of the ship's company--with stores for ten days at short rations, came ashore this day and flew British colours on the log-house in Treasure Island. Thomas Redruth, owner's servant, landsman, shot by the mutineers; James Hawkins, cabin boy--'
And at the same time, I was wondering over poor Jim Hawkins' fate.
Tag: adventure pirates jim-hawkins dr-livesey
The Hispaniola still lay where she had anchored; but, sure enough, there was the Jolly Roger--the black flag of piracy--flying from her peak.
Robert Louis StevensonAmong Violet's many useful skills was a vast knowledge of different types of knots. The particular knot she was using was called the Devil's Tongue. A group of female Finnish pirates invented it back in the fifteenth century, and named it the Devil's Tongue because it twisted this way and that, in the most complicated and eerie way.
Lemony SnicketTag: pirates violet-baudelaire devil-s-tongue knots
I thought the assassin was moving kind of slow for an assassin. Maybe the magic had done something after all. Or maybe he felt sorry for me. That sort of thing happens among cutthroats more often than you'd expect.
Cassandra Rose ClarkeTag: humor magic killing pirates assassins
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