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  • They were bandits, thieves, and renegades.†   (source)
  • Despite warnings, even threats, from the Council, in the summer of 1908 my brothers and several hundred members of this renegade faction—a number of powerful ymbrynes among them, traitors every one—ventured into the Siberian tundra to conduct their hateful experiment.†   (source)
  • A bunch of renegade Trial takers who managed to escape their deaths?†   (source)
  • She wipes away a renegade tear with the back of her hand.†   (source)
  • He thought it would make him rambunctious, renegade—a drunkard even, the debtlessness, and in a way it did.†   (source)
  • The rest included the renegade ARNists who plied their trade by resurrecting species of plants and animals long absent from their antediluvian North American haunts, the ecology engineers, licensed primitives such as the Ogalalla Sioux or the He!†   (source)
  • To them I am only Adah or, to my sisters sometimes, the drear monosyllabic Ade, lemonade, Band-Aid, frayed blockade, switchblade renegade, call a spade a spade.†   (source)
  • He was pretty much alone in the world now, and attendance at his funeral would be mostly held down to the people he had worked with and that old renegade Masterton, who would at least drink to him.†   (source)
  • If they found the renegade submarine, they'd be heroes regardless of what else happened.†   (source)
  • I'm joining your crappy little renegade pack.†   (source)
  • I always thought and now I have the proof that you're a renegade.†   (source)
  • Others in like circumstances have become renegade Houses, taking family atomics and shields and fleeing beyond the Imperium.†   (source)
  • I think Mautz thought the fat kid with his arm in a sling or the handsome renegade preacher's kid might turn study hall into a verbal free-for-all if Brittain said the wrong thing, but the part of him that thought all kids should hear Mark Brittain won over.†   (source)
  • He was dressed in running shoes, dark cargo pants, and a Vancouver Winter Olympics T-shirt with his Roman centurion badge pinned to the neck (which seemed either sad or hopeful to Percy, now that they were renegades).†   (source)
  • He's a renegade and a liar; do you really think any attempt to appease him would benefit us in the end?†   (source)
  • There were other chiefs, true, and the final fights were yet to be fought, but he had never had the vengeful nature of some Rangers and had no interest in spending a decade mopping up renegades and stragglers.†   (source)
  • And interesting that later this business of picking through garbage, old winos and runaway kids slipping into an alley to get at broken bread chunks and slivers of veiny beef—later, with Detwiler, the subject would reoccur, but differently, with a touch of the renegade theater of the sixties.†   (source)
  • A relative would know personal names and secrets about husbands, babies, renegades and decide which ones were lucky in a chant, but these outside women had to build a path from scraps.†   (source)
  • This scene was so bizarre that I felt myself nearing panic A renegade in this faraway land, a helpless pawn now at the mercy of people who were, themselves, outlaws within their own sinister country, I cried out silently for help.†   (source)
  • I had been caught out of bounds in A Dorm by a renegade, off-duty Mr. Finn, who turned up out of the blue on a night he wasn't even working and wrote shots for me and seven other out-of-bounds women, lining us up outside his office.†   (source)
  • The Spanish argued that they had no control over renegade elements of society or the destinations of their contraband.†   (source)
  • In September, I gave a speech in which I said there was a hidden hand behind the violence and suggested that there was a mysterious "Third Force," which consisted of renegade men from the security forces who were attempting to disrupt the negotiations.†   (source)
  • Someone a few years older would probably have been given clearance, told about the renegade battalion that was still held in deep cover.†   (source)
  • Let renegade not miss renegade for sheer lack of daring!†   (source)
  • And it's all mixed up with that Tutor: a renegade Dwarf.†   (source)
  • In fact, he sometimes brought Dane Quinn to mind—her renegade ex-boyfriend, killed these many years ago in a one-car accident.†   (source)
  • It is not a city of outlaws, not a landscape for renegades.†   (source)
  • Slay me this renegade!†   (source)
  • This is generally a requirement for renegade fertility deities.†   (source)
  • These three people were in many ways alike—renegades, concerned with their personal beauty, finding in that beauty the easiest form of dignity.†   (source)
  • A renegade hog grunts in the undergrowth.†   (source)
  • He was a renegade but a Catholic just the same.†   (source)
  • For them, as for young, unattached, dashing boys, or renegade old men far gone, the roulette wheel all evening in some smoke-filled but ascetic room ...how would it be?†   (source)
  • The son of an unpopular father, a renegade in his party and rather brash for a freshman Senator, John Quincy neither sought nor was offered political alliances or influence.†   (source)
  • It was this renegade who broke away from the cover of the other rebels at the Battle of Blaxik.   (source)
    renegade = rebel (person who is fighting in a rebellion against an established government)
  • If this renegade didn't always mix with his rebel brethren, if he kept to himself when not engaged in battle, at least he was on their side.   (source)
  • A burning dormitory illuminated the renegade's face: handsome and rugged, with four parallel scars visible on his right cheek.   (source)
  • As the renegade slashed and hacked at Redd's soldiers, the slave workers were able to flee across the plain into the Everlasting Forest.   (source)
  • One by one, the renegade aimed the point of his blade at the soldiers' upper chests, their single vulnerable spot (a medallion-sized area above the breastplate, at the base of the steel-tendoned neck); a direct hit cut through vital inner workings and sent sparks flying, killing them.   (source)
  • Some years ago, we caught a young renegade who had a great deal in common with you.†   (source)
  • Tell me, what became of that Lithuanian renegade?†   (source)
  • "A ....renegade branch of the family," she said.†   (source)
  • Yet sometimes I think it'd have been better if we'd run for it, gone renegade.†   (source)
  • There are certain preparations that indicate when a House is going renegade.†   (source)
  • But all he can hope for then is escape into renegade anonymity.†   (source)
  • And again, he wondered at her unknown ancestry — a renegade House, perhaps?†   (source)
  • Take those Fremen, for example, the renegade people of the desert.†   (source)
  • You'll not be a renegade House, but a guerrilla House—running, hunted.†   (source)
  • Murderers, renegade vampires, Shadowhunters who break the Accords.†   (source)
  • But you were never formally ordered to track down pirates or apprehend a renegade slaver?†   (source)
  • But what if some young renegade who didn't know he was famous killed him?†   (source)
  • "Another renegade Dwarf, no doubt," said Nikabrik.†   (source)
  • Your enemy is that renegade Armor-of-God Weaver.†   (source)
  • Also, there were still renegade bands of Kiowas and Comanches loose on the plains.†   (source)
  • "I'm going to the Walls to kill that big renegade for you," Augustus said.†   (source)
  • Every mangy renegade that's left loose knows about this place.†   (source)
  • Blue Duck might be dealing with some renegade chief with a taste for white women.†   (source)
  • He had dealt with renegades before, he said, and could do it again.†   (source)
  • Jake had said most of the Indians still running loose were renegades.†   (source)
  • Except that he was still in Austin, playing cards, and there were the renegades.†   (source)
  • The scattered marsh holdings weren't legally described, just staked out natural—a creek boundary here, a dead oak there—by renegades.†   (source)
  • This is not the regular Baptist stipend; Our Father is a renegade who came without the entire blessing of the Mission League, and bullied or finagled his way into this lesser stipend.†   (source)
  • NOTORIOUS CRIMINAL KNOWN AS DAY ARRESTED, TO BE SENTENCED TODAY OUTSIDE BATALLA HALL DANGEROUS MENACE TO SOCIETY FINALLY CAUGHT TEEN RENEGADE KNOWN AS DAY CLAIMS TO WORK ALONE, NO AFFILIATION WITH THE PATRIOTS I stare at my face on the JumboTrons.†   (source)
  • "The most disturbing thing of all," added Mikhail Alexandrov, the Party theoretician who had replaced the dead Mikhail Suslov and was even more determined than the departed ideologue to be simon-pure on Party doctrine, "is how tolerant the Main Political Administration has been toward this renegade.†   (source)
  • I think it would've been wiser for us to go renegade, to take ourselves beyond the Imperial reach," she said.†   (source)
  • TLEILAX: lone planet of Thalim, noted as renegade training center for Mentats; source of "twisted" Mentats.†   (source)
  • Alone, I felt less of a renegade.†   (source)
  • Mike Fink, this here's a renegade White boy, who has joined in with all the evil doings of Ta-Kumsaw and his gang of child-killers and wife-rapers.†   (source)
  • A renegade Dwarf.†   (source)
  • He then paused and began an impassioned description of the brave and daring actions of Gedney, Meade, and the crew of the Washington in apprehending the wild, dangerous, renegade blacks.†   (source)
  • If Reds had not turned renegade—like the unspeakable Irrakwa, the half-White Cherriky—then the White man could not have survived here in the land.†   (source)
  • "I'm no renegade," said Measure.†   (source)
  • It's that renegade, all right!†   (source)
  • Where's the other renegade?†   (source)
  • Renegade!†   (source)
  • Other renegade?†   (source)
  • One of the renegades.†   (source)
  • It would likely just be a matter of shooting down two or three renegade buffalo hunters who had been too lazy to find honest work once the herds petered out.†   (source)
  • The renegade had out-traveled him.†   (source)
  • Or a snake will bite him or a horse will fall on him, or he'll get hung, or one of his renegades will shoot him in the back.†   (source)
  • "There are young renegades," Po said.†   (source)
  • My youth sang the glory of books, the psalms of travel, of new faces, of the universe of Disney animation, of Popsicle sticks and county fairs, of parables of war spoken by a. flight-jacketed father, of parables of love and Jesus sung by a blue-eyed mother, a renegade Baptist, a converted Catholic, a soldier of the Lord.†   (source)
  • The odor of the marsh was so urgent and strong, so evocative of the Atlantic and infinite fertility, that the breeze that lifted the sheets from my body smelled of trout and shad and mullet and flowed in a secret renegade creek through our room.†   (source)
  • But it is told that he was a renegade, who came of the race of those that are named the Black Numenoreans; for they established their dwellings in Middle-earth during the years of Sauron's domination, and they worshipped him, being enamoured of evil knowledge.†   (source)
  • As the Senate reassembled, he was the only one of the seven "renegade" Republicans to vote with the majority on preliminary procedural matters.†   (source)
  • I would not sit at the same table with that renegade," retorted one of Boston's leading citizens in refusing to attend a dinner at which Adams would be present.†   (source)
  • No faith do I owe to a renegade, And what I owe shall now be paid.†   (source)
  • I'm a renegade, a turncoat, a Scallawag.†   (source)
  • For there was Walter Butler, the loyalist, who spread fire and horror through the Mohawk Valley in the times of the Revolution; and there was Simon Girty, the renegade, who saw white men burned at the stake and whooped with the Indians to see them burn.†   (source)
  • We assemble in parks and halls and sedulously oppose any renegade (Neville, Louis, Rhoda) who sets up a separate existence.†   (source)
  • Some mad renegade Catholic, puffed up with the Governor's politics, had once broken into a church (in the days when there were still churches) and seized the Host.†   (source)
  • Local news next, something about Big Bill Thompson, that he had hired the Cort Theatre, for instance, and presented himself on the stage with two caged giant rats from the stockyards whom he addressed by the names of Republican renegades—I came to know what items Einhorn would want first.†   (source)
  • I love you, Scarlett, because we are so much alike, renegades, both of us, dear, and selfish rascals.†   (source)
  • Renegade!†   (source)
  • These women, so swift to kindness, so tender to the sorrowing, so untiring in times of stress, could be as implacable as furies to any renegade who broke one small law of their unwritten code.†   (source)
  • "Sam," says Bill, "I suppose you'll think I'm a renegade, but I couldn't help it.†   (source)
  • I will defend my church and my religion when it is insulted and spit on by renegade catholics.†   (source)
  • From where she sat, she could see the renegade Mr. Fielding.†   (source)
  • Martin the renegade medical student could flounder off and be a soda-clerk, but if the husband of Joyce Lanyon should indulge in such insanity, he would be followed by reporters and photographed at the soda handles.†   (source)
  • However, that morning he did not eat the renegade, but, if I may be allowed to carry on the metaphor, chewed him up very small, so to speak, and—ah!†   (source)
  • So when they met here, Nietzsche denounced him as a renegade; and Wagner wrote a pamphlet to prove that Nietzsche was a Jew; and it ended in Nietzsche's going to heaven in a huff.†   (source)
  • But there was opposition from certain Episcopalian and Congregationalist ministers, those renegades whom Mr. Monday so finely called "a bunch of gospel-pushers with dish-water instead of blood, a gang of squealers that need more dust on the knees of their pants and more hair on their skinny old chests."†   (source)
  • This morning's verdict would break the renegade, but he had done his country and the Empire incalculable disservice.†   (source)
  • He broke off and, turning towards Dante, said with quiet indignation: —And I may tell you, ma'am, that I, if you mean me, am no renegade catholic.†   (source)
  • The skipper presented an unmoved breadth of back: it was the renegade's trick to appear pointedly unaware of your existence unless it suited his purpose to turn at you with a devouring glare before he let loose a torrent of foamy, abusive jargon that came like a gush from a sewer.†   (source)
  • This question chimed in so well to the tolling of a certain thought of mine that, with the image of the absconding renegade in my eye, I answered at once, "Hanged if I know, unless it be that he lets you."†   (source)
  • She was owned by a Chinaman, chartered by an Arab, and commanded by a sort of renegade New South Wales German, very anxious to curse publicly his native country, but who, apparently on the strength of Bismarck's victorious policy, brutalised all those he was not afraid of, and wore a 'blood-and-iron' air,' combined with a purple nose and a red moustache.†   (source)
  • Oh, I have been base, cowardly, I tell you; I have abjured my affections, and like all renegades I am of evil omen to those who surround me!†   (source)
  • Besides all, he had an overseer,—great, tall, slab-sided, two-fisted renegade son of Vermont—(begging your pardon),—who had gone through a regular apprenticeship in hardness and brutality and taken his degree to be admitted to practice.†   (source)
  • But that renegade, with a new Mannlicher rifle and two hundred cartridges, is elsewhere, shooting musk-deer for the market, and Yankling Sahib will learn next season how very ill he has been.†   (source)
  • "Vereshchagin is a renegade and a traitor who will be punished as he deserves," said he with the vindictive heat with which people speak when recalling an insult.†   (source)
  • If, then, to meanest mariners, and renegades and castaways, I shall hereafter ascribe high qualities, though dark; weave round them tragic graces; if even the most mournful, perchance the most abased, among them all, shall at times lift himself to the exalted mounts; if I shall touch that workman's arm with some ethereal light; if I shall spread a rainbow over his disastrous set of sun; then against all mortal critics bear me out in it, thou Just Spirit of Equality, which hast spread one royal mantle of humanity over all my kind!†   (source)
  • To this semicouncil had been invited the Swedish General Armfeldt, Adjutant General Wolzogen, Wintzingerode (whom Napoleon had referred to as a renegade French subject), Michaud, Toll, Count Stein who was not a military man at all, and Pfuel himself, who, as Prince Andrew had heard, was the mainspring of the whole affair.†   (source)
  • Here, then, was this grey-headed, ungodly old man, chasing with curses a Job's whale round the world, at the head of a crew, too, chiefly made up of mongrel renegades, and castaways, and cannibals—morally enfeebled also, by the incompetence of mere unaided virtue or right-mindedness in Starbuck, the invunerable jollity of indifference and recklessness in Stubb, and the pervading mediocrity in Flask.†   (source)
  • He came to be the most cruel renegade I ever saw:   (source)
    renegade = a traitor, rebel or outlaw
  • [3] Not one had been a renegade, to help the Saracens at the siege of Acre in 1291†   (source)
  • He therefore questioned him, saying, "Tell me, rais, art thou Turk, Moor, or renegade?"†   (source)
  • To which the youth replied, also in Spanish, "I am neither Turk, nor Moor, nor renegade."†   (source)
  • Don Gregorio and the renegade who went for him have come ashore—ashore do I say?†   (source)
  • The renegade asked her in the Morisco language if her father was in the house.†   (source)
  • Our renegade took the trunk containing Zoraida's wealth and dropped it into the sea without anyone perceiving what he did.†   (source)
  • Don Antonio then said that if the renegade did not prove successful, the expedient of the great Don Quixote's expedition to Barbary should be adopted.†   (source)
  • The renegade interpreted to us what the Moor said to his daughter; she, however, returned him no answer.†   (source)
  • When we had decided upon this the renegade told us not to be uneasy, for he would lose his life or restore us to liberty.†   (source)
  • "Then it will be necessary to waken him and take him with us," said the renegade, "and everything of value in this fair mansion."†   (source)
  • I fell to the lot of a Venetian renegade who, when a cabin boy on board a ship, had been taken by Uchali and was so much beloved by him that he became one of his most favoured youths.†   (source)
  • We gave the Moorish rowers some food, and the renegade comforted them by telling them that they were not held as captives, as we should set them free on the first opportunity.†   (source)
  • "Your worship hits it off mighty well and mighty easy," said Sancho; "but 'it's a long step from saying to doing;' and I hold to the renegade, for he seems to me an honest good-hearted fellow."†   (source)
  • It was barely two hours after night set in when we were all on board the vessel, where the cords were removed from the hands of Zoraida's father, and the napkin from his mouth; but the renegade once more told him not to utter a word, or they would take his life.†   (source)
  • We remained six days in Velez, at the end of which the renegade, having informed himself of all that was requisite for him to do, set out for the city of Granada to restore himself to the sacred bosom of the Church through the medium of the Holy Inquisition.†   (source)
  • I asked the renegade what had passed between them, and when he told me, I declared that nothing should be done except in accordance with the wishes of Zoraida, who now came back with a little trunk so full of gold crowns that she could scarcely carry it.†   (source)
  • The moment I saw her I took her hand and kissed it, and the renegade and my two comrades did the same; and the rest, who knew nothing of the circumstances, did as they saw us do, for it only seemed as if we were returning thanks to her, and recognising her as the giver of our liberty.†   (source)
  • There also came with me this Spanish renegade"—and here she pointed to him who had first spoken—"whom I know to be secretly a Christian, and to be more desirous of being left in Spain than of returning to Barbary.†   (source)
  • Having done so I went and gave an account of all that had taken place to the renegade and my comrades, and looked forward with impatience to the hour when, all fear at an end, I should find myself in possession of the prize which fortune held out to me in the fair and lovely Zoraida.†   (source)
  • They came to the side of the ship to ask who we were, whither we were bound, and whence we came, but as they asked this in French our renegade said, "Let no one answer, for no doubt these are French corsairs who plunder all comers."†   (source)
  • We posted a look-out on shore, and never let the oars out of our hands, and ate of the stores the renegade had laid in, imploring God and Our Lady with all our hearts to help and protect us, that we might give a happy ending to a beginning so prosperous.†   (source)
  • The renegade said this with so many tears and such signs of repentance, that with one consent we all agreed to tell him the whole truth of the matter, and so we gave him a full account of all, without hiding anything from him.†   (source)
  • To conclude, Ricote liberally recompensed and rewarded as well the renegade as the men who had rowed; and the renegade effected his readmission into the body of the Church and was reconciled with it, and from a rotten limb became by penance and repentance a clean and sound one.†   (source)
  • The renegade was present, and in our cell we gave him the paper to read, which was to this effect: "I cannot think of a plan, señor, for our going to Spain, nor has Lela Marien shown me one, though I have asked her.†   (source)
  • Finding herself now on board, and that we were about to give way with the oars, Zoraida, seeing her father there, and the other Moors bound, bade the renegade ask me to do her the favour of releasing the Moors and setting her father at liberty, for she would rather drown herself in the sea than suffer a father that had loved her so dearly to be carried away captive before her eyes and on her account.†   (source)
  • Two days afterwards the renegade put to sea in a light vessel of six oars a-side manned by a stout crew, and two days later the galleys made sail eastward, the general having begged the viceroy to let him know all about the release of Don Gregorio and about Ana Felix, and the viceroy promised to do as he requested.†   (source)
  • may get up to-morrow; unless indeed he chooses to lie in bed, I mean gives way to weakness and does not pluck up fresh spirit for fresh battles; let your worship get up now to receive Don Gregorio; for the household seems to be in a bustle, and no doubt he has come by this time;" and so it proved, for as soon as Don Gregorio and the renegade had given the viceroy an account of the voyage out and home, Don Gregorio, eager to see Ana Felix, came with the renegade to Don Antonio's house.†   (source)
  • To which the renegade, without waiting for Zoraida to reply, made answer, "Do not trouble thyself by asking thy daughter Zoraida so many questions, señor, for the one answer I will give thee will serve for all; I would have thee know that she is a Christian, and that it is she who has been the file for our chains and our deliverer from captivity.†   (source)
  • We agreed also that it would be advisable to answer the Moorish lady's letter, and the renegade without a moment's delay took down the words I dictated to him, which were exactly what I shall tell you, for nothing of importance that took place in this affair has escaped my memory, or ever will while life lasts.†   (source)
  • it would be easy for him to hit on some way of getting us all out of the bano and putting us on board; especially if the Moorish lady gave, as she said, money enough to ransom all, because once free it would be the easiest thing in the world for us to embark even in open day; but the greatest difficulty was that the Moors do not allow any renegade to buy or own any craft, unless it be a large vessel for going on roving expeditions, because they are afraid that anyone who buys a small vessel, especially if he be a Spaniard, only wants it for the purpose of escaping to Christian territory.†   (source)
  • We therefore resolved to put ourselves in the hands of God and in the renegade's; and at the same time an answer was given to Zoraida, telling her that we would do all she recommended, for she had given as good advice as if Lela Marien had delivered it, and that it depended on her alone whether we were to defer the business or put it in execution at once.†   (source)
  • But God, who ordered it otherwise, afforded no opportunity for our renegade's well-meant purpose; and he, seeing how safely he could go to Shershel and return, and anchor when and how and where he liked, and that the Tagarin his partner had no will but his, and that, now I was ransomed, all we wanted was to find some Christians to row, told me to look out for any I should be willing to take with me, over and above those who had been ransomed, and to engage them for the next Friday, which he fixed upon for our departure.†   (source)
  • The time passed at length, and the appointed day we so longed for arrived; and, all following out the arrangement and plan which, after careful consideration and many a long discussion, we had decided upon, we succeeded as fully as we could have wished; for on the Friday following the day upon which I spoke to Zoraida in the garden, the renegade anchored his vessel at nightfall almost opposite the spot where she was.†   (source)
  • He asked which was the rais of the brigantine, and was answered in Spanish by one of the prisoners (who afterwards proved to be a Spanish renegade), "This young man, señor that you see here is our rais," and he pointed to one of the handsomest and most gallant-looking youths that could be imagined.†   (source)
  • Before fifteen days were over our renegade had already purchased an excellent vessel with room for more than thirty persons; and to make the transaction safe and lend a colour to it, he thought it well to make, as he did, a voyage to a place called Shershel, twenty leagues from Algiers on the Oran side, where there is an extensive trade in dried figs.†   (source)
  • We were all thrown into perplexity by these cries, not knowing what to do; but reflecting that the shouts of the shepherd would raise the country and that the mounted coast-guard would come at once to see what was the matter, we agreed that the renegade must strip off his Turkish garments and put on a captive's jacket or coat which one of our party gave him at once, though he himself was reduced to his shirt; and so commending ourselves to God, we followed the same road which we saw the shepherd take, expecting every moment that the coast-guard would be down upon us.†   (source)
  • We told her they were her images; and as well as he could the renegade explained to her what they meant, that she might adore them as if each of them were the very same Lela Marien that had spoken to her; and she, having great intelligence and a quick and clear instinct, understood at once all he said to her about them.†   (source)
  • The two Turks, greedy and insolent, instead of obeying the orders we had to land me and this renegade in Christian dress (with which we came provided) on the first Spanish ground we came to, chose to run along the coast and make some prize if they could, fearing that if they put us ashore first, we might, in case of some accident befalling us, make it known that the brigantine was at sea, and thus, if there happened to be any galleys on the coast, they might be taken.†   (source)
  • Finally the fleet returned victorious and triumphant to Constantinople, and a few months later died my master, El Uchali, otherwise Uchali Fartax, which means in Turkish "the scabby renegade;" for that he was; it is the practice with the Turks to name people from some defect or virtue they may possess; the reason being that there are among them only four surnames belonging to families tracing their descent from the Ottoman house, and the others, as I have said, take their names and surnames either from bodily blemishes or moral qualities.†   (source)
  • The renegade explained the measures and means he had adopted to rescue Don Gregorio, and Don Gregorio at no great length, but in a few words, in which he showed that his intelligence was in advance of his years, described the peril and embarrassment he found himself in among the women with whom he had sojourned.†   (source)
  • He, when he saw his daughter there, began to sigh piteously, and still more when he perceived that I held her closely embraced and that she lay quiet without resisting or complaining, or showing any reluctance; nevertheless he remained silent lest they should carry into effect the repeated threats the renegade had addressed to him.†   (source)
  • The general and the viceroy had some hesitation about placing confidence in the renegade and entrusting him with the Christians who were to row, but Ana Felix said she could answer for him, and her father offered to go and pay the ransom of the Christians if by any chance they should not be forthcoming.†   (source)
  • We immediately took counsel with the renegade as to what means would have to be adopted in order to carry off the Moorish lady and bring us all to Christian territory; and in the end it was agreed that for the present we should wait for a second communication from Zoraida (for that was the name of her who now desires to be called Maria), because we saw clearly that she and no one else could find a way out of all these difficulties.†   (source)
  • This having been accomplished, and half of our party being left to keep guard over them, the rest of us, again taking the renegade as our guide, hastened towards Hadji Morato's garden, and as good luck would have it, on trying the gate it opened as easily as if it had not been locked; and so, quite quietly and in silence, we reached the house without being perceived by anybody.†   (source)
  • Ricote offered for that object more than two thousand ducats that he had in pearls and gems; they proposed several plans, but none so good as that suggested by the renegade already mentioned, who offered to return to Algiers in a small vessel of about six banks, manned by Christian rowers, as he knew where, how, and when he could and should land, nor was he ignorant of the house in which Don Gaspar was staying.†   (source)
  • We at once gave the renegade five hundred crowns to buy the vessel, and with eight hundred I ransomed myself, giving the money to a Valencian merchant who happened to be in Algiers at the time, and who had me released on his word, pledging it that on the arrival of the first ship from Valencia he would pay my ransom; for if he had given the money at once it would have made the king suspect that my ransom money had been for a long time in Algiers, and that the merchant had for his own advantage kept it secret.†   (source)
  • thieves, thieves!" by which cries we were all thrown into the greatest fear and embarrassment; but the renegade seeing the danger we were in and how important it was for him to effect his purpose before we were heard, mounted with the utmost quickness to where Hadji Morato was, and with him went some of our party; I, however, did not dare to leave Zoraida, who had fallen almost fainting in my arms.†   (source)
  • This "scabby one" rowed at the oar as a slave of the Grand Signor's for fourteen years, and when over thirty-four years of age, in resentment at having been struck by a Turk while at the oar, turned renegade and renounced his faith in order to be able to revenge himself; and such was his valour that, without owing his advancement to the base ways and means by which most favourites of the Grand Signor rise to power, he came to be king of Algiers, and afterwards general-on-sea, which is the third place of trust in the realm.†   (source)
  • The Christians who were to row were ready and in hiding in different places round about, all waiting for me, anxious and elated, and eager to attack the vessel they had before their eyes; for they did not know the renegade's plan, but expected that they were to gain their liberty by force of arms and by killing the Moors who were on board the vessel.†   (source)
  • Judge, sirs, whether we had reason for surprise and joy at the words of this paper; and both one and the other were so great, that the renegade perceived that the paper had not been found by chance, but had been in reality addressed to some one of us, and he begged us, if what he suspected were the truth, to trust him and tell him all, for he would risk his life for our freedom; and so saying he took out from his breast a metal crucifix, and with many tears swore by the God the imag†   (source)
  • When we were collected together we debated whether it would be better first to go for Zoraida, or to make prisoners of the Moorish rowers who rowed in the vessel; but while we were still uncertain our renegade came up asking us what kept us, as it was now the time, and all the Moors were off their guard and most of them asleep.†   (source)
  • We called to him, and he, raising his head, sprang nimbly to his feet, for, as we afterwards learned, the first who presented themselves to his sight were the renegade and Zoraida, and seeing them in Moorish dress he imagined that all the Moors of Barbary were upon him; and plunging with marvellous swiftness into the thicket in front of him, he began to raise a prodigious outcry, exclaiming, "The Moors—the Moors have landed!†   (source)
  • These were the words and contents of the second paper, and on hearing them, each declared himself willing to be the ransomed one, and promised to go and return with scrupulous good faith; and I too made the same offer; but to all this the renegade objected, saying that he would not on any account consent to one being set free before all went together, as experience had taught him how ill those who have been set free keep promises which they made in captivity; for captives of distinction frequently had recourse to this plan, paying the ransom of one who was to go to Valencia or Majorca wit†   (source)
  • To proceed: every time he passed with his vessel he anchored in a cove that was not two crossbow shots from the garden where Zoraida was waiting; and there the renegade, together with the two Moorish lads that rowed, used purposely to station himself, either going through his prayers, or else practising as a part what he meant to perform in earnest.†   (source)
  • Thence they took us away and distributed us all in different houses in the town; but as for the renegade, Zoraida, and myself, the Christian who came with us brought us to the house of his parents, who had a fair share of the gifts of fortune, and treated us with as much kindness as they did their own son.†   (source)
  • The renegade repeated this to me, and I replied that I was very willing to do so; but he replied that it was not advisable, because if they were left there they would at once raise the country and stir up the city, and lead to the despatch of swift cruisers in pursuit, and our being taken, by sea or land, without any possibility of escape; and that all that could be done was to set them free on the first Christian ground we reached.†   (source)
  • At last I resolved to confide in a renegade, a native of Murcia, who professed a very great friendship for me, and had given pledges that bound him to keep any secret I might entrust to him; for it is the custom with some renegades, when they intend to return to Christian territory, to carry about them certificates from captives of mark testifying, in whatever form they can, that such and such a renegade is a worthy man who has always shown kindness to Christians, and is anxious to escape on the first opportunity that may present itself.†   (source)
  • That very night our renegade returned and said he had learned that the Moor we had been told of lived in that house, that his name was Hadji Morato, that he was enormously rich, that he had one only daughter the heiress of all his wealth, and that it was the general opinion throughout the city that she was the most beautiful woman in Barbary, and that several of the viceroys who came there had sought her for a wife, but that she had been always unwilling to marry; and he had learned, moreover, that she had a Christian slave who was now dead; all which agreed with the contents of the paper.†   (source)
  • In all our conjectures we were wide of the truth; so from that time forward our sole occupation was watching and gazing at the window where the cross had appeared to us, as if it were our pole-star; but at least fifteen days passed without our seeing either it or the hand, or any other sign and though meanwhile we endeavoured with the utmost pains to ascertain who it was that lived in the house, and whether there were any Christian renegade in it, nobody could ever tell us anything more than that he who lived there was a rich Moor of high position, Hadji Morato by name, formerly alcaide of La Pata, an office of high dignity among them.†   (source)
  • But for my part I should have been sorry if he had spoken to her, for perhaps it might have alarmed her to find her affairs talked of by renegades.†   (source)
  • He had three thousand of them, and after his death they were divided, as he directed by his will, between the Grand Signor (who is heir of all who die and shares with the children of the deceased) and his renegades.†   (source)
  • This friend of mine, then, was one of these renegades that I have described; he had certificates from all our comrades, in which we testified in his favour as strongly as we could; and if the Moors had found the papers they would have burned him alive.†   (source)
  • At last I resolved to confide in a renegade, a native of Murcia, who professed a very great friendship for me, and had given pledges that bound him to keep any secret I might entrust to him; for it is the custom with some renegades, when they intend to return to Christian territory, to carry about them certificates from captives of mark testifying, in whatever form they can, that such and such a renegade is a worthy man who has always shown kindness to Christians, and is anxious to escape on the first opportunity that may present itself.†   (source)
  • This sign led us to believe that some Christian woman was a captive in the house, and that it was she who had been so good to us; but the whiteness of the hand and the bracelets we had perceived made us dismiss that idea, though we thought it might be one of the Christian renegades whom their masters very often take as lawful wives, and gladly, for they prefer them to the women of their own nation.†   (source)
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