375 examples of smuggler in sentences

"Looks reasonable to me," agreed the smuggler.

The liquor smuggler stopped to pour out abuse.

"I never heard that a feller was any less dead because an Injun or a girl shot him," the lank smuggler retorted.

The big smuggler, lying on the ground with a bullet in his thigh, cursed them for a group of chicken-hearted quitters.

" The wounded smuggler's fury outleaped prudence.

As soon as Onistah came into the circle of light, he walked straight to the whiskey-smuggler.

Instead, they sat in front of the coals of buffalo chips while the big smuggler and his companions rode away from an ignominious field of battle.

For a moment I paused, thinking that even the salt-marsh might perhaps be a safer resting-place for the night than the headquarters of some desperate smuggler, for such I conjectured that this lonely dwelling must be.

He would ask then, if we were to leave to the importer no means of importation but by smuggling; and if, besides all the present disadvantages, we were to load him with all the charges and hazards of the smuggler, would there be any danger of any considerable supply of fresh slaves being poured into the islands through this channel?

He saw her again young, a tall, pale, slender girl with frightened eyes, a widow, after fifteen months of married life with Rougon, the clumsy gardener whom she had chosen for a husband, throwing herself immediately afterwards into the arms of the smuggler Macquart, whom she loved with a wolfish love, and whom she did not even marry.

And can there, after all, be a higher piece of justice, than to keep one smuggler in readiness to play against another?

Am I a fit subject for mounting the sides of a smuggler, with a broadsword between my teeth!

Ludlow took a more circuitous course, apparently with an intention of causing such a diversion as might distract the attention of the crew of the smuggler, and with the view of reaching the point of attack at the same moment with the boat that contained his principal force.

There needed no second look to assure Ludlow of the inefficacy of further pursuit, since the sea was already ruffled by the breeze which had so opportunely come to aid the smuggler.

At the next instant, he threw his large frame over the bulwarks, and disappeared on the deck of the smuggler.

Trysail, himself, shook his head, in a manner that expressed volumes, when Ludlow vented his humor on what the young man termed the luck of the smuggler; and the crews of the boats gazed after the retiring brigantine, as the inhabitants of Japan would now most probably regard the passage of some vessel propelled by steam.

There are Frenchmen enough, Captain Ludlow to keep a brave officer in good-humor; and the less reason to fret about a trifling mischance in overhauling a smuggler.

The girl has a French fancy, and she is rummaging the smuggler's silks and laces; when her choice is made, we shall have her back again, more beautiful than ever, for a little finery.

"The gentleman has boarded the smuggler, and gone with la belle Barbérie to examine his silks and laces!" Ludlow then explained the manner in which the Patroon had disappeared.

The smuggler, aided by chance and artifice, has thrice escaped me; the fourth time, it may be our fortune.

"We trust to the sea-green lady's care;" returned the extraordinary smuggler, pointing, with a species of reverence, real or affected, to the image that was beautifully worked, in rich colors, on the velvet of his cap.

The manner of Alida was far less embarrassed, than when he had before seen her in the smuggler's company; and his blood fired, when he saw that their eyes met with a secret and friendly intelligence.

"One who has had such schooling, should know better how to turn it to a good account;" said Ludlow, sternly, when the excited smuggler ceased to speak.

" Myndert was quite as much astonished, by this language, and the subdued manner of the smuggler, as Ludlow himself.

"These opinions favor but little the occupation of thethe gentlemanwho now honors us with his company," said Ludlow, regarding the gay-looking smuggler with an eye that showed how much he was embarrassed to find a suitable appellation for one whose appearance was so much at variance with his pursuits.

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