Sentences with phrase «settled by pirates»

The place was first settled by pirates (they are still here running stores) and general idlers (whose descendants surely inhabit the civil service.)

It is often noted that Belize is a country settled by pirates.

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It was first settled by the Dutch in the mid-1600s but they abandoned the island and left it to pirates.

Will Turner (Orlando Bloom), who was saved from shipwreck as a boy by the equally young Elizabeth Swann (Kiera Knightley) whom he's been pining for ever after, enlists the help of renegade pirate Jack Sparrow (Johnny Depp) when Miss Swann is abducted by cursed pirates led by the particularly wicked Captain Barbossa (Geoffrey Rush) with whom Sparrow of course has a score to settle.

Settled by British pirates, privateers, and other seamen as early as the 1630s, Belize is the only English - speaking country of Central America.

Whether it's daytime lounging by the pool surrounded by the turquoise ocean and swaying coconut trees, or settling in for another spectacular sunset across the lagoon, no adventure around the island is complete without stopping in to Le Pirate.