When the Ottomans arrived to occupy Tripoli in 1551, they saw little reason to rein in the pirates, preferring instead to profit from the booty.

When the pirates thought to demand a ransom of twenty talents of silver, he insisted they ask for fifty.

When still only a child he was captured by Genoese pirates for ransom.

When Rosencrantz complains that there is not enough action, pirates attack.

When the lights come on again, Hamlet has vanished ( in Hamlet it's reported that he was kidnapped by pirates from the ship ).

When a Royal Navy ship brought official word to Nassau of the pardon offer, it seemed at first that most of the pirates in Nassau would accept.

When the ship had to be careened, pirates needed a safe haven on which to ground the ship.

When the pirates decided to demand a ransom of twenty talents of gold, Caesar is said to have insisted that he was worth at least fifty, and the pirates indeed raised the ransom to fifty talents.

# Another Fine Mess .....: When responding to a distress call from a ship under attack by pirates, the Enterprise discovers none other than Harry Mudd is involved.

When those governments abandoned the practice of issuing letters of marque against the Spanish treasure fleets and possessions in the later 16th century, many privateers turned pirate and used the city as their main base during the heyday of the Caribbean pirates in the 17th century.

When the pirates ' intended victim was within range, the Jolly Roger would be raised, often simultaneously with a warning shot.

When he was sixteen, Sun Jian travelled with his father to Qiantang ( 錢唐, present day Hangzhou, Zhejiang ), where they came upon a band of pirates dividing up their spoils on land.

When the pirates spotted the American vessel they confused it with a merchant ship, and proceeded to attack it.

When Guybrush first appeared in The Secret of Monkey Island he was an awkward teenager whose sole ambition in life was to be a pirate ( the Monkey Island games take place in the Caribbean during a fictional time period ; 17th century-style pirates exist alongside anachronistic objects such as vending machines that dispense grog in glass bottles ).

When Guybrush acquires all three artifacts, stops the poxed pirates, and summons the creatures that will guide him to La Esponja, Guybrush goes off to find the sponge while Elaine stays with LeChuck to help him in returning the Monkeys of Montevideo to their proper habitats.

When detailing pirates, UGO also called Guybrush " he perfect protagonist for a light-hearted pirate adventure ".

When pirates sacked Vieste in southern Italy in 1554 they took 7, 000 slaves.

When they save a young woman named Isabella from drowning, she tells them that her husband's ship has been destroyed by the feared Captain Victor Stagnetti and his crew of cutthroat pirates.

When a Spanish force attacks and raids the town of Bridgetown, Blood escapes with a number of other convict-slaves ( including former shipmaster Jeremy Pitt, the one-eyed giant Edward Wolverstone, former gentleman Nathaniel Hagthorpe, former Royal Navy petty officer Nicholas Dyke and former Royal Navy master gunner Ned Ogle ), captures the Spaniards ' ship and sails away to become one of the most successful pirates / buccaneers in the Caribbean, hated and feared by the Spanish.

When Jaffar tells the Prince to do so as well, Matton leaps into the being and does so, not only destroying it and the building but causing the skin and wings of all the angels to peel away to reveal that they were originally scruffy spacemen reminiscent of pirates.

When the body of Luthor Harkon was unwittingly taken on board the long-boat of Norse raiders and taken to Lustria, he created an undead realm known as the Vampire coast of zombie pirates from shipwrecks that became feared pirates and attacked the Lizardmen of the city of Huatl.

When negotiations break down, Elaine participates in a battle around the Jerkbait Islands to drive off the pirates.

When Fred Powell's brother-in-law, Charlie Keane, moved into the dead man's home, the anonymous letter writer took no chances on Charlie taking up where Fred had left off and wasted no time on a first notice:

When he rolled on the left side, propping on his left elbow, Matsuo seized his hair and pulled him back over.

When he finally left the sinister mansion on Perdido Street, he was carried out in a coroner's basket.

When her right hand was incapacitated by the rheumatism, Sadie learned to write with her left hand.

When the family business failed, Mercer left school and on his mother's urging -- for she hoped that he would become an actor -- he joined a local little theater group.

When offered a morsel it glanced right and left and winced, obviously frightened and expecting a kick, but too hungry not to snatch the tidbit.

When the detective left, Andrus phoned his secretary to cancel his work and to advise the network to get a substitute director for his current project.

When more than two figures are separated by subtraction symbols the subtraction must be carried out from the left to right if the result is to be correct.

When he had left, I could never remember whether he had poked them in their middles, laughingly, with a thick index finger or whether he was merely so much the sort of person who did this that one assumed the action, not bothering to look.

When Costaggini had used up all the sketches thirty-six feet of empty frieze were left over.

When consciousness deserts the sleeping body and the wakeful world, it continues in the myriad progressions of the ever-present past and future, in a life as vibrant and real as the one left when the body tired and required sleep.

When stacking wine on its side in a bin, care should always be taken to be sure there is no air bubble left next to the cork.

When he left, she knew she would never see him again.

However, years of activism, and fighting for the Republican side of the Spanish Civil War have left him disillusioned .</ br > When the plague epidemic is virtually over, Tarrou becomes one of its last victims, but puts up a heroic struggle before dying.

When Charles left Germany a few weeks later, Albert renewed his depredations in Franconia.

When the Greeks left without killing Ajax, despite their sacrifices Athena became so angry that she persuaded Zeus to send a storm that sank many of their ships.

When Ajax finally left Troy, Athena hit his ship with a thunderbolt, but Ajax still survived, managing to cling onto a rock.

When the Second Spanish Republic was proclaimed on 14 April 1931, he fled and left Spain, but did not abdicate the throne.

When the left ventricle contracts to force blood into the aorta, the aorta expands.

When so used it would generally be fastened on the right shoulder, and would partially envelop the chest as it passed obliquely round in front and behind to be attached to the shield under the left arm.

When Jackson returned briefly to England in 1889 to marry, Housman was not invited to the wedding and knew nothing about it until the couple had left the country.

When photographed, Capone hid the scarred left side of his face saying the injuries were war wounds.

When he was about 18 years old, his parents died and left him with the care of his unmarried sister.

When Eadgils ' mound ( to the left in the photo ) was excavated in 1874, the finds supported Beowulf and the sagas.