504 examples of smack in sentences

Hy'r'ye?he said, and made for an arm-chair, in which he placed first his hat and then his person, going smack through the crown of the former as neatly as they do the trick at the circus.

Far away lay a fishing-smack, with the men clustering over their net.

This instrument erases the skin, and cuts out small portions of the flesh at almost every stroke; and is so frequently applied, that the smack of it is all day long in the ears of those, who are in the vicinity of the plantations.

You are only trying to read me a moral lecture, because I gave Lucy a harmless smack.

"No, there is the smack of Sidmouth, and Dawlish, and Torquay in its perfume," said another, whose passion is for the red cliffs of South Devon.

He'd love to have a smack at the Huns.

It has a fine bibulous smack about it.

" Hippocrates, the physician, had a smack of this disease; for when he was to go home as far as Abdera, and some other remote cities of Greece, he writ to his friend Dionysius (if at least those [6056]Epistles be his)

They are but self-extended; but pardon me if I stop somewherewhere the fine feeling of benevolence giveth a higher smack than the sensual raritythere my friends (or any good man) may command me; but pigs are pigs, and I myself therein am nearest to myself.

Get a boat out and put me aboard that smack.

" He pointed as he spoke to a smack which was just on their beam, making slowly for the harbour.

" Captain Nugent gazed at the stern of the fast-receding smack; Sunwich was getting dim in the distance and there was no other sail near.

After this, certain persons, covering themselves with nets in a fishing smack, were in this way conveyed round to the Roman camp, and conferred with the fugitives.

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.

All that we saw had a pleasant rural air, a smack of primitive and unsophisticated life.

Mr. Bernard, as some of us may remember, violated the proprieties and laid himself open to reproach by his enterprise with a bouncing village-girl, to whose rosy cheek an honest smack was not probably an absolute novelty.

They are eaten with comparatively little zest, and have no real tang nor smack to them.

In 1775 it was a more modest title than "governor," and had not the smack of semi-royalty which lingered about the latter.

If you say another word I shall smack you and put you in the corner, ha-ha." Cornwall it was.

In the silence that followed, Isadore Kantor, a poppiness of stare and a violent redness set in, suddenly turned to his five-year-old son, sticky with lollypop, and came down soundly and with smack against the infantile, the slightly outstanding, and unsuspecting ear.

On the other hand it is just that smack which it has of Oriental debauchery that makes it appeal so strongly to the idle rich.

On the march to the capital he and his ship's surgeon managed to escape, and, after killing the owner of a fishing-smack, returned to Tortuga, where he immediately commenced preparations for another invasion of Puerto Rico.

The draught allayed his spasm; he wiped his broad, purple face, chuckled, tossed off the last of the liquor with a smack, and held out a mottled, fat hand, bare of wrist-lace.

Den he pull em up so dey toes jus touch de ground an smack em on da back an rump wid a heavy wooden paddle, fixed full o' holes.

If dey sass back, er try t' run away, he mek 'em cross dey han's lak dis; den he pull 'em up, so dey toes jes' tetch de ground'; den he smack 'em crost de back an' rump wid a big wood paddle, fixed full o' holes.

504 examples of  smack  in sentences