"Marque" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... grant letters of marque and reprisal, and make rules concerning captures on land ...
— Diary in America, Series Two • Frederick Marryat (AKA Captain Marryat)
... what you call it. I shall take out letters of marque and reprisal. I won't raise girls to be carried off by the first privateer that makes sail for them, without making some one else suffer. If Jarvis ...
— The Fat of the Land - The Story of an American Farm • John Williams Streeter
... it, 'Apres avoir marque les deux qualites qu'il faut donner aux personnages qu'on invente, il conseille aux Poetes tragiques, de n'user pas trop facilement de cette liberte quils ont d'en inventer, car il est tres difficile ...
— Life Of Johnson, Vol. 3 • Boswell, Edited by Birkbeck Hill
... facts. You will blockade us! Do you suppose we shall do nothing, even upon the sea? How many letters of marque and reprisal would it take to put the whole of your ships up at your wharves to rot? Will any merchant at Havre, or Liverpool, or any other portion of the habitable globe, ship a cargo upon a New England, or New York, ...
— The Great Conspiracy, Complete • John Alexander Logan |
