Aubrey is no great authority; but the speech smacks so of Raleigh's offhand daring that one cannot but believe it; as one does also the other story of his having advised the lords to keep out James and erect a republic.
And that day one year my Jock smacks me on the cheek, and gets on the mare; and when I ask: 'Where be goin'?
Connie thought how lovely it would be to get one of Sue's hearty smacks on her cheek, and to hear Sue's confident voice saying: "You were a silly.
I'll give her two resounding smacks the wery minute as I sees her.
Two of the smacks rode out the weather safely, but the third got carried on to a small rocky islet and was wrecked, though her crew managed to get ashore on to the rocks.
Three fishing smackswere out in it, and ran for shelter into a narrow channel between two of the islands.
She has kept her virtue by her until it has turned sour, and now every word and look smacksof verjuice.
Mr. Goldham, the clerk of the market, accustomed as he is to the sudden invasions of the costermongers, informs us that the scene on board the smacksladen with sprats is really frightful.
Steam, as we have already intimated, has revolutionized the fish-trade, and is rapidly sweeping away the whole fleet of smacks propelled by sails, as ruthlessly as the rail did stagecoaches.
There were not more than eighteen smacks at the opening of the present year, and, few as were the arrivals, the buyers were not eager.
Scarcely a lobster, out of twenty thousand put alive into the boat, was lost, whilst large numbers of those brought in sailing smacks perish.
This smacks of Turkish rather than of European rule," said the youth.
The boy's treatment of him pleases me much; it smacks of the gentle blood in his veins.
Some are inclined to refer all that smacksof Persia to a remote period of Indo-Iranian unity, and, in consequence, to connect all tokens of contact with the west with far-away regions out of India.
News had come to Brent that the fishing-smacks had found a refuge in Lyme harbour, and gay chatter filled the streets, as the happy wives and mothers ran to and fro, laughing as they thought on their terrors of the previous night.
These smacks sailed well with the wind free, could also be rowed with twenty oars, and had each a crew of twenty-four men.
Stephen Burrough thus found in June 1556 no less than thirty smacks in the Kola fjord, which had come sailing down the river, on their way to fishing- and sealing-grounds to the east.
Junk after junk and scores of fishing smacks sailed past us cityward, but all alike held off beyond hail.
All along the bay shores, great bells were booming the alarm, and crowds of people rushed about the villages in wild disorder, while the junks and smacks continued to fly before us as if we were pirates.
More boats andsmacks arrive; the rattling of anchors and chain cables is heard in all directions.
Boats and smacks arrive in such numbers before the north-west wind, that the harbour is full of noise and shouting, the plashing of the waves, the sound of furling sail, and the clanking of chain cables as they rattle through the hawseholes.
There were fishing-smacks at anchor on one side, and a brig from Sweden was being unloaded.
It was a very good idea to charter one of those romanticsmacks to come over in,' said the young man on the jetty wistfully.
The importations are now made by the dealers, who frequently send their own smacks into the Provinces for a supply when lobsters are scarce in the State.
During the summer of 1845 the captains of the well-smacks of New London, Conn.
These smacks make regular trips up and down the coast, landing their cargoes either at Rockland, Portland, or at one of the lobster pounds scattered along the coast.
The smacks and dealers buy lobsters by count, as the fishermen generally have no facilities for weighing them; but the dealers always sell by weight.
The fishery at North Haven began in 1848, but did not increase so rapidly at first as in sections farther west, as the smacks would only take the medium-sized lobsters, fearing that the largest would not be able to stand the trip.
The other places get their supply from the smacks and also from the fishermen in their vicinity, who run in their own catch.
The following table shows the extent of the wholesale lobster trade in Rockland and Portland during 1898, including everything connected with the business except the smacks and pounds, which are shown elsewhere.
The supplies for these canneries previous to the inception of the fishery were obtained bysmacks running to the westward.
The mortality among the lobsters from the time they are put aboard the smacks until they are barreled for shipment is estimated at about 5 per cent.
A few sailing smacks also engaged in other fishery pursuits during the dull summer months.
I could forgive anything, however, but this system of forced marriages; it smacks too much of old Frederick for my taste.
But, my dear boy, that speech smacks much more of the Ecole de Jesuites than of St. Cyr.
More than one steed must Delia's empire feel Who sits triumphant o'er the flying wheel; And as she guides it through th' admiring throng, With what an air she smacks the silken thong!
The name, which in its compositionsmacks of brave old knighthood and chivalry, was frequent in Warwickshire from an early period.
All this smacks dangerously of revolt against the Providence of God.
The choice he makes smacksof convenience rather than of logic or common sense.
I envy you what smacksof a race, a name, an ancestry, a lineage.
It was a move of such subtlety assmacks of something higher than the Saxon!
All the other smacks were in the same plight, and it was quite clear that no fishing could be done for awhile, because every set of trawl-gear was banked in by a slippery, heavy rock.
Cassall proposed to hang somebody for permitting the cabins of the smacks to remain in such a wildly unsanitary state; but beyond propounding this totally unpractical suggestion he said little, and contented himself with steady observation.
All round to the near horizon a scattered fleet of snow-white smacks are lingering, and they look like a weird squadron from a land of chilly death.
The night was splendid, and when a sharp air of wind set all thesmacks gliding, our voyagers had once more an experience that is one of the most memorable for those to whom it comes seldom.
Here and there, far up on the rushing sides of the foaming mountains, stray smacks hung like specks; the schooner shipped very little water now, and Ferrier kept the deck with some difficulty.
We haven't an unsound rope or block, but many of the smacksare shockingly ill-found, and one rope or spar may cost a crew their lives if it's faulty.
By this time the two smacks were almost in collision, but they went clear.
It takes the raal potheen, that smacksof the smoke of the still, to keep up the bluid of an Irishman.
Fishing begins as soon as the smacks reach the Banks.
Fishing smacks bound for the Georges, the Western, or Banks of Newfoundland may be gone three or four weeks, bringing their fish to market on ice, or they may be absent from four to six months, dressing and salting their fish on board.
The other two smacks overtook her, and then began a dropping fire of musketry from all three.
Looking in our wake, I by and by discerned three smacks in full chase, and perceived that they were steadily overhauling us.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "smacks" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
