The old man told an amazing tale of being kidnapped by pirates, and taken as a slave to the Caribbean.
The young boys dreamed of going on a daring adventure to find pirates' treasure.
Los Cabos, in the southern Baja Peninsula, was favored by early pirates because of its safe
harbors.
The merchant ship was stopped by pirates, and robbed of its cargo of spices and precious stones.
The King had to pay a huge ransom of his entire family's weight in gold to obtain the release of his son from the pirates.
The sailors watched the horizon for signs of the
pirate ships.
File sharing programs allow people to pirate popular music from the Internet.
Richard pirates everything - movies, software, music, whatever, over the web.
Bob Dylan decided to release an official version of his live concert after seeing pirated versions
on sale in several music stores.
Dave gave me a pirated copy of the program to install on my computer.
In May 1718, Blackbeard the pirate blockaded the harbor of Charleston, South Carolina, and without firing a shot received a booty of money, supplies and medicine.
One of the greatest dangers facing the boat people of Vietnam was piracy on the South China Sea.
Piracy is still a great danger in international waters, and ships are often attacked and looted.
Record companies are increasingly frustrated with people pirating music off the Internet.
Nowadays, a lot of people pirate software by downloading it from other computer users over the Internet.
The children are digging holes all over the backyard, convinced that they will find pirate treasure.
Squirrels bury the nuts and seeds they gather like tiny pirates burying their treasure.
A Greek proverb remarks that he who plunders with a little boat is a pirate, but he who plunders with a fleet is a conqueror.
A Greek proverb notes that where there is a sea there are pirates.
Nietzsche once suggested that merchant and pirate were for a long period one and the same person.
Henry Brooks Adams once wrote, "The wholesale piracy of Democracy was the single real triumph of my life."
Find someone who has pirated movies or music over the Internet.
Discussion question: How do you feel about Internet piracy of music, film and software?