80 examples of swag in sentences

He didn't say that he wanted me to kill Davis, but if we could carry him to Fort Monroe, my boy, there'd be about a million dollars swag to divide!

It is the pirate "Harpy," and She takes the "Author's" swag!

They are great drinkers, says Iago, 'most potent in potting; your Dane, your German, and your swag-bellied Hollander are nothing to your English'.

And there is a further reason: We still believe in these piracies; we believe they pay and that we may get our turn at some "swag" to-morrow.

But when we realize that in these international burglaries there is no "swag," that the whole thing is an illusion, that there are huge costs but no reward, we shall be on the road to a better tradition, which, while it may not give us international policing, may do better stillrender the policing unnecessary.

SwagmanA drifter, or hobo, an itinerant shearer who carried all his belongings wrapped up in a blanket or cloth called a "swag.

"And after the thing had been successfully done, he could watch the two thieves gathering the swag together, and putting it in a satchel they found in the cashier's room.

That will be just as bad for the bank as if they'd got away to Canada with the swag, as the Chief calls it.

Let theis new Companies March by us through the Market, so to the Guard house, And there disarme;wee'll teach ye true obedience; Then let 'em quitt the Towne, hansom swag fellowes And fitt for fowle play.

V. be pendent &c adj.; hang, depend, swing, dangle; swag; daggle^, flap, trail, flow; beetle. suspend, hang, sling, hook up, hitch, fasten to, append.

V. be curved, &c adj.; curve, sweep, sway, swag, sag; deviate &c 279; curl, turn; reenter.

Then beneath the summer stars she and Priam hastened furtively, as though the luggage had contained swag, up Werter Road towards Oxford Road.

"SURELY YOU AIN'T ASKIN' ME TO GIVE UP MY SWAG ARTER ALL THE TROUBLE I'VE HAD GETTIN' IT, AN' ALL THE VALIBLE BLOOD I'VE SPILT.

In happier autumns you and I (You by your art and I by luck) Have pulled the pheasant off the sky Or flogged to death the flighting duck; But never yethow few the chances Of pouching so superb a swag Have we achieved a feat like France's Immortal gas-bag bag.

Having discovered the modus operandi of the pair, and having read their cards, so to speak, he next set himself to discover where they banked their swag.

It was clever of the pair to hide the swag where they could oversee it every hour of the day, and they had chosen a safe location, too, for nobody wasted the effort to explore those domes and hogbacks now that they were known to contain no quartz.

"Old Swag at The Three Tuns says I'm the village idiot.

Out of Jack Brien's swag were extracted two large square bottles of pickles.

Then, when his companions were at their work, he carefully packed up his swag, and fastening it on to his back, appeared by the side of the hole.

Now, the amazed comments of two Vermont farmers on the nature and properties of a swag-bellied god are worth hearing.

For a while the heavy reduced canvas still flapped with a lazy swag against the masts; but suddenly it was filled by a violent gust; and the Beagle was hurried swiftly onwards, careering over the waves like the misty spectre in a storm.

THE SWAG XXXVI GOLD XXXVII THE DARK POOL CHAPTER

CHAPTER XXXV THE SWAG

He would stride through rivers in his Bishop's dress, and laugh at such trifles as wet clothes, and would trudge through the bush with his blankets rolled up on his back like any swag-man.

Do you think I don't mean to be revenged on that skunk Bartley, and, above all, on that scoundrel Hope, who planted the swag in my pockets, and let me into this hole for fourteen years?"

80 examples of  swag  in sentences