For four days he had struggled, yelled, and wrenched at the heavy iron bars of his prison without ceasing, and had nearly slain a Lascar incautious enough to come within reach of the great hairy paw.
It makes you say queer things," said the captain, looking Altamont hard in the face.
Well, one night I was told to put out a tipsy Lascar who was making himself obnoxious; he had come ashore and lost all his money and was in a bad temper.
On the fore-deck below the bridge, steeply roofed with the white slopes of the awnings, a young lascar seaman had clambered outside the rail.
The lead confirmed his words; the depth of water increased at every cast, and the soul of excitement departed suddenly from the lascar swung in the canvas belt over the Sofala's side.
The plunge of the lead with the mournful, mechanical cry of the lascar came at longer and longer intervals; and the men on her bridge seemed to hold their breath.
But a yelling spirit of excitement, like some frantic soul wandering unsuspected in the vast stillness of the coast, had seized upon the body of the lascar at the lead.
Take care the Lascar fellows do not see you; and then go back to your berth and turn in.
When cunning Lascar talk and plot, and say what he will do, Potto lies wid one eye just little open, peeping out of de bunk and awake, and snore all the time like de big animal you call 'nosorous in my country.
We have another anchor and cable, and that will hold us well enough in a moderate breeze with land to windward, unless these Lascar fellows play us another trick.
And don't omit the turtle-soup for dinner, and tellLascar Joe to make it.
The padre hereupon sighed deeply again, but whether for the loss of the Lascar or the soup, no one knows.
Such a choice little dinner, too, as only our late friend, Lascar Joe, could prepare!
Though I dared not take my eyes off the brushwood on the top of the hill, out of the corner of my eye I was aware he was a lascar and that he must be dead, for his head had nearly been severed from his body.
This came from another lascar shot through the body--a plucky fellow.
A converted Lascar was in the hospital, and seeing my occupation, he came and conversed with me, in his broken English.
But I cannot express the delight I felt at a copy of Pilgrim's Progress which this same Lascargave me.
Thus Victoria had roamed aimlessly over the ship, visiting even the bows where, everlastingly, a lascar seemed to brood in fixed attitudes as a Budh dreaming of Nirvana.
The lascar meditatively pressed his face, brown and begrimed with coal dust, streaked here and there with sweat, against the rope which formed the rough bulwark.
Not till he had examined each of the bodies carefully, and tried them with his knife, did he turn again to the wounded Lascarleaning against the wall.
That's the one did it," cried the Lascar excitedly, pointing to the one whom Jan had struck on the head with his stick.
The Lascar peered about him with fierce eyes already growing dim.
A minute or two later the lascar in the after part of the boat was unobtrusively examining the scrap of paper.
There was the boat, the lascar resting motionless on his oar.
The khansaman's florid cheeks again put on a sickly hue, and when the seeming lascar had gone a few paces he called him back.
When it was finished the lascar went over it line by line, comparing it with the paper at his left hand.
From the lascar he had learned all that he ever knew of the motives of the Gujarati's action.
The man pushed off, and the lascar watched the boat float silently down the stream until it was lost to sight.
The authoritative tone of thelascar offended his dignity.
Only the lascar and Hossain were left in the boat.
Directly after, I saw Jones himself hitting right and left with his night-glass, from the moonlight to the shadow of the foresail, while Snelling tumbled over a Lascar at every slap, standing up in boxer style.
One could not look on and let a set of Arbicos kill a good lascar of France; and the thing that is just must be said, let it go as it will against one's grain.
No eyes are keener than his to trace a lascar kebir.
I never saw a prettier thing--every Lascar has killed his own little knot of Arbicos.
At last the Lascar rose and floundered through the mud towards the village, but he was careful to leave an ally to watch the boats.
It was necessary to put the Lascar aside, gently and slowly, because it was necessary to save the boats, and, further, to demonstrate the extreme ease of the problem that looked so difficult.
The Lascar moved his feet cautiously, and they rustled among dried stumps.
Now, Dillon observed that the Lascar sold an old silver sword guard to one of the ST.
Accordingly Bushart, a Fiji woman who was his wife, and a Lascar companion, were landed on Barwell Island, or Tucopia.
At last the lascar rose and floundered through the mud toward the village, but he was careful to leave an ally to watch the boats.
I had forgotten," said the lascar slowly, "that to those fasting and unused the opium is worse than any wine.
The lascar moved his feet cautiously, and they rustled among dried stumps.
It was necessary to put the lascar aside, gently and slowly, because it was necessary to save the boats, and, further, to demonstrate the extreme ease of the problem that looked so difficult.
From the lascar he had learnt all that he ever knew of the motives of the Gujarati's action.
Nobody saw her on her way out, and very soon she was standing on the Indian Gentleman's front steps, and the Lascar had opened the door for her.
But the Lascar had found out something of Sara's unhappy little life, and about the garret.
When his master came out, the Lascar spoke to him quickly, and the Indian Gentleman turned and looked at her curiously.
And afterward the Lascaralways greeted her with salaams of the most profound description.
That evening, as she passed the windows, the Lascar was closing the shutters, and she caught a glimpse of the room inside.
It seemed that the Indian Gentleman could not do enough to make her happy, and to repay her for the past; and the Lascar was her devoted slave.
Then there was a sort of fairy nursery arranged for the entertainment of the juvenile members of the Large Family, who were always coming to see Sara and the Lascar and the monkey.
As soon as he disappeared Mr. Nott cautiously dropped through the opening to the deck below, and, going to the other hatch through which the Lascar had vanished, deliberately refastened it.
That the ship was under the surveillance of unknown parties, and that the description of them tallied with his own knowledge of a certain Lascar sailor, who was one of Sleight's informants--seemed to be more than probable.
The Lascar seaman that was here the other day has been wanting to see you, sir.
But as the moon shone upon its vanishing face, it revealed the whitening eyes and teeth of the Lascar seaman.
Dragging out one of them with feverish eagerness to the light, the Lascar forced it open.
Let me off this time, boss, and I swear to God I will," said the Lascar eagerly.
But why had the Lascar been haunting the ship before?
That little matter of the Pontiac we talked about, boss," returned the Lascar with an uneasy servility in the whites of his teeth and eyes.
That Lascar I fastened down in the hold last night unbeknownst to you, Mr. Renshaw, and let him out again this morning ekally unbeknownst.
The next moment he had stripped away the planking again, and the hurriedly-restored box which the Lascar had found fell to the deck, scattering part of its ringing contents.
There was a stealthy rustle below that seemed to approach the hatch, and then with a sudden bound the Lascar leaped on the deck.
About two months ago Mr. Sleight told me one of his shipmates had sent him a Lascarsailor who had to dispose of a valuable secret regarding the Pontiac for a percentage.
As he falls, theLascar starts into a half-risen attitude, glares with his eyes, lashes about him fiercely with his arms, and draws a phantom knife.
Slowly loosening his grasp as he listens to the incoherent jargon with an attentive frown, he turns to the Lascar and fairly drags him forth upon the floor.
I was afraid the rascals had smelt her out when I met the lascar in the creek the other morning.
The lascar was seen to discontinue the use of his paddle for a moment, and then to make off faster than before.
Was the lascar merely bent on wreaking vengeance on those who had injured him?
Then to his master: "Lascar maybe done come back, sahib.
I little guessed how it would serve the lascar out when I used it to bridge the pit!
Fortunately the lascar wore about his loins the regulation length of strong country cotton--his only covering--and this Don was in the act of removing when a knife fell out of its folds.
That lascar villain has got his knife back, anyhow.
What, not the lascar who's been hounding us all this time?
Let me only come face to face once more with that murderous lascar or his master, and no false notions of mercy shall stay my hand--so help me Heaven!
Then the recollection of the events of the past day and night rushed upon him, and he turned abruptly, with a sudden vague sense of dread, to the spot where the lascar lay.
The lascar who's been hounding us on the island here--yes; but not the one who tried to brain me on board the cutter and got the knife for his pains.
The work of that treacherous lascar I knocked down a while back.
Captain, do you wish me to drop my bag and flank this lascar with tobacco, in order to teach him to ply to our windward in spite of us?
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "lascar" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
