| John Henry Grose - India - 1766 - 496 pages
...nearer, and battered her on all fides till fhe ftruck : but if the defence was obftinate, they fent a number of gallivats with two or three hundred men in each, who boarded from all quarters fword in hand. IT was now more than fifty years that this piratical ftate had rendered... | |
| John Henry Grose - English imprints - 1772 - 498 pages
...nearer, and battered her on all fides till fhe ftruck : but if the defence was obflinate, they tent a number of gallivats with two or three hundred, men in each, who boarded from all quarters fword in hand. IT was now more than fifty years that this piratical ftate had rendered... | |
| Robert Beatson - Great Britain - 1790 - 622 pages
...her on all fides, till fhe ftruck; and if the defence was obftinate, they fent a number of'gallivats, with two or three hundred men in each, who boarded fword in hand, from all quarters, in the fame inflant. TOL. ii. F NORTH NORTH AMERICA. THE Earl of Loudoun was, on the 2oth of March, appointed Commander... | |
| Charles James - English language - 1805 - 1236 pages
...nearer, and battered heron all sides until she struck; and if the defence was obstinate, thevi sent a number of gallivats, with two or three hundred men in each, who boarded sword in hand from all quarters in the 'ame instant. The English, trusiing to the report of die natives,... | |
| William Duane - Electronic books - 1810 - 774 pages
...nearer, and battered her on all aides until she struck : and if the defence was obstinate, they senta number of gallivats, with two or three hundred men in each, who boarded sword in hand from all quarters in the same instant. The English trusting to the report of the natives,... | |
| James Sargant Storer - 1818 - 96 pages
...; and battered her on all sides until she . struck ; and if the defence was obstinate, they sent a number of gallivats with two or three hundred men in each, who boarded sword in hand from all quarters in the same instant. " It was now fifty years that this piratical State... | |
| Richard Alfred Davenport - Europe - 1841 - 456 pages
...nearer, and battered her on all sides till she struck ; and if the defence was obstinate, they sent a number of gallivats, with two or three hundred men in each, who boarded sword in hand, from all quarters, at the same instant." The range taken by James in his new command... | |
| Alexander Kyd Nairne - History - 1988 - 158 pages
...nearer and battered her on nil sides until she struck ; and if the defence wns obstinate, they sent a number of gallivats with two or three hundred men in each, who boarded sword in hand from all''quartcrs in the same instant. •' The Mardthas who were in possession of the... | |
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