"Letter of marque" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... you look upon it in that light," said the doctor. "Now, if it had been years ago, with your smart little craft, and you had been followed up here by a small sloop of war, or an English letter of marque, you might have expected to be made a prize. But this is an ordinary Spanish schooner, and though I suspected it at first, I don't think she is tainted by the slave trade, but engaged in traffic with the natives for ...
— The Ocean Cat's Paw - The Story of a Strange Cruise • George Manville Fenn |
