After chopping down imaginary victims, the pirates turned and threw their cutlasses on board the boats.

Now I watched the pirates turn on Diego and my father and throw them against the wall near the air lock-and somehow I didn't react.

As Pinckney closed, the skiff stopped and the suspected pirates threw their weapons overboard, which were identified as five AK-47 rifles, one rocket propelled grenade (RPG) launcher.

A pirate would very rarely throw more than one cutlass.

Few pirate articles have survived, because pirates on the verge of capture or surrender usually burned their articles or threw them overboard, to prevent the papers being used against them at trial.

The pirates killed the monk, looted the chapel and threw her statue into the flames.

A pirate threw the Englishman overboard while Annie struggled to catch her breath.

He should have struck, not spoke; or that these pirates, Not enough barbarous, had not o'erboard thrown me For to seek my mother!

The band's namesake, the legendary Corinthian musician Arion, was the "Jolly Mon" of ancient Greece; he was rescued by dolphins after pirates threw him overboard.

Eventually the pirates threw their weapons overboard - four AK-47s, a "bazooka" and some pistols and knives.