 ... debauchery. Such of these pirates will spend two or three thousand pieces of eight in a night, not leaving themselves a good shirt to wear in the morning. I saw one of them give a common strumpet five hundred pieces of eight to see her naked.  The Outing Magazine - Page 601907Full view - About this book
 | Robert Walsh, Eliakim Littell, John Jay Smith - 1835 - 744 pages
...as well as the chief danger of these tumultuous orgies. " These pirates," ¿ays Exquemelin, " will spend two or three thousand pieces of eight in a night,...leaving themselves a good shirt to wear in the morning. I saw one of them give a common strumpet five hundred pieces of eight to see her naked. My own master... | |
 | Alexandre Olivier Exquemelin - Adventure and adventurers - 1853 - 506 pages
...days in taverns and stews, giving themselves to all manner of debauchery. Such of these pirates will spend two or three thousand pieces of eight in a night,...leaving themselves a good shirt to wear in the morning. I saw one of them give a common strumpet five hundred pieces of eight to see her naked. My own master... | |
 | Frederick Whymper - 1877 - 364 pages
...according to custom, wasted all in a few days in taverns and disorderly houses. Some of these pirates will spend two or three thousand pieces of eight in a night,...leaving themselves a good shirt to wear in the morning. My own master," says Esquemeling, "would buy sometimes a piI,e of wine, and placing it in the street,... | |
 | Alexandre Olivier Exquemelin - Buccaneers - 1891 - 454 pages
...days in taverns and stews, giving themselves to all manner of debauchery. Such of these pirates will spend two or three thousand pieces of eight in a night,...leaving themselves a good shirt to wear in the morning. I saw one of them give a common strumpet five hundred pieces of eight to see her naked. My own master... | |
 | John Augustine Zahm - South America - 1910 - 512 pages
...it in all kinds of dissipation and debauchery. "Such of these pyrates," writes Esquemeling, *'will spend two or three thousand pieces of eight in a night,...leaving themselves a good shirt to wear in the morning." At first, the Buccaneers confined themselves to depredations on sea, but their unexpected successes... | |
 | John Augustine Zahm - Colombia - 1910 - 510 pages
...squander it in all kinds of dissipation and debauchery. "Such of these pyrates," writes Esquemeling, "will spend two or three thousand pieces of eight in a night,...leaving themselves a good shirt to wear in the morning." At first, the Buccaneers confined themselves to depredations on sea, but their unexpected successes... | |
 | Alexandre Olivier Exquemelin - Buccaneers - 1914 - 290 pages
...in a few days in taverns, giving themselves to all manner of debauchery. Such of these pirates will spend two or three thousand pieces of eight in a night,...leaving themselves a good shirt to wear in the morning. My own master would buy sometimes a pipe of wine, and, placing it in the street, would force those... | |
 | Patrick Pringle - Transportation - 1953 - 336 pages
...opened to provide them with entertainment and relieve them of their money. " Such of these pirates will spend two or three thousand pieces of eight in a night,...leaving themselves a good shirt to wear in the morning. I saw one of them give a common strumpet five hundred pieces of eight to see her naked." Exquemelin's... | |
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