"Crossbones" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... arrived, he took the bottle and examined it. A death's head and crossbones were on the label. He took out the cork, and smelt the contents of ...
— The Broom-Squire • S. (Sabine) Baring-Gould
... for the storms, and to run from them. Steam-frigates have ended forever the pirates of the Spanish Main. The long, low, black schooner, which could sail dead to windward through the pages of the cheap "yellow-covers," and the likeness of which sported its skull and crossbones on the said covers, is to be met with nowhere else. Neither the Isle of Pines nor the numberless West India keys know her or her romantic commander ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Volume 3, Issue 15, January, 1859 • Various |
