" When he had set them down on the floor, and given each a smacking kiss, he took hold of Marianne's hands and said to her that everything was going on beautifully, and that he was very pleased.

Except for an occasional slight smacking sound, it did not materially interfere with speech.

As soon as JACK SMITH'S smack sails, I'll send you a piece of the cable it came over.

The number of fishing-boats off the coast of Newfoundland, makes the navigation perilous at almost any time to vessels approaching too near the banks, and after night-fall, the vessel going at the rate of ten knots an hour with a smacking breeze, we passed many of these at anchor, or rather, I suppose, riding on the waves; they displayed lights, or serious consequences might have ensued.

Have these finny creatures their full revenge upon fishermankind, when a smack sinks foundered into the swallowing deep?

The huntsman to the clamour flies; The smacking lash he smartly plies.

Would it not be wiser to reassimilate the tender dear ones, and think of them ever after with smacking memory?

Suppose, that after a smacking run of about eight days before a fresh gale, (during the whole of which you are of course too sick and qualmy to leave your cot,) you awake one morning, and find yourself snugly at anchor in the bay of Funchal; and the romantic, sun-bright mountains of Madeira, gorgeously crested with a mass of brilliant clouds, looking in at your cabin-window.

My master and my lady set out in great style, and it was reported that her father had undertaken to pay all Sir Condy's debts; and, of course, all the tradesmen gave him fresh credit, and everything went on smack smooth.