There was an Old Man with a flute, A sarpint ran into his boot; But he played day and night, Till the sarpint took flight, And avoided that man with a flute.
A sarpint he is," declared Bolderwood, and strode away to look at the prisoner.
He'd be an eel or a sarpintto wriggle out of them thongs.
Then down through the scupper his head it went, And there came a tremenjous shout, "Sea-Sarpint be blowed, ye darned landlubbers!
How many cables long must that there sea-sarpint 'ave been?
You wouldn't say there was anything uncertin about a sea-sarpint if once you'd seen one.
Den de sarpint he think she like sumpin' sharp, an' he fotch her a green apple.
De sarpint he done fotch mudder Ebe seben apples, an' ebery one she take a bite out of gib her a debbil.
I shall see that sarpint or ghost again, I feel sure.
Why, I once knew a man named Snip who said he had been attacked one night in South America by a sarpint full forty feet long, and who saved his life by means of a blunderbuss, though he didn't fire at the reptile at all.
So he laid about in the grass, on his breast like a sarpint fur three or four days till they were beginnin’ to put the roof on, and then he thought he’d thry.
Howsumever, the sarpint couldn't reach him, and the captain shot the mate, and brought the music box of each home with him.
All the hullaballoo seemed to be on the bridge, an' as we didn't see the sarpint there we plucked up courage and went on deck.
Anyway, up they came, an' we all stood in a crowd watching the sarpint as it came closer and closer.
It 'ud break my heart nigh as soon as hers to see the Sarpint come to grief.
It was the voice of little Moxy, the Sarpint o' the Prairies.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sarpint" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
