I felt that to do so would smack of sheer cowardice.

I brushed out my eyes to find the ship smack on her beam ends, and the wind howling by from the sea.

He often does so when there is no need; it is a form of conversation, noncommittal, yet smacking of authority.

If the three Powers in question were prepared to pocket this smack in the face, then Germany would be satisfied, because such a defeat would mean that the Triple Entente would never be able to work together again.

A pun hath a hearty kind of present ear-kissing smack with it; you can no more transmit it in its pristine flavour, than you can send a kiss.

How could I know we were going to walk smack into that dame?

He only sat down for a flash, and then he bent down and hit his 'ead an awful smack against another 'ead wot 'ad just started up to see wot it was sitting on its legs.

"A little gentle smack like this,"his two hands came together with a crash which echoed through the room"a little smack from Germany would do the business.

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

Where the fine feeling of benevolence giveth a higher smack than the sensual rarity, there my friends (or any good man) may command me; but pigs are pigs, and I myself therein am nearest to myself.

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.

" She supped up bird-like from the tip of her spoon, smacking for flavor.

On leaving the Straits (commonly called "The Gut,") a noble sight presented itselfa fleet of some hundred merchantmen, all smacking about before the rising wind, crowding every sail, lest it should change ere they got clear of the obstructive straits.

"My preservier!" says the lady, a little inconsequentially, while her fingers are lifted to the mask and saluted with such a smack as elicits a "hooray!"

We got in some return smacks after dark at stragglers, but it was very difficult to say how much damage we did.

The whole experience, even the regular throbbing of the engines, the swish of the sea, the rising and falling of a lantern bound to the top of a fishing smack by which they were passing, the distant chant of the changing watch, all the night sights and sounds of the seaborne hostel, were unfamiliar and exhilarating.

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

But once the sugar was safe under his shirt, he owned up without the smallest hesitation, and took his smacking like a man.

"A little gentle smack like this,"his two hands came together with a crash which echoed through the room"a little smack from Germany would do the business.