If they succeeded, the game was theirs; but if the smuggler eluded them and reached the barn safely, victory went to the other side.
The reserves cooperated with him, trying by any means to catch the smuggler before he could reach the town.
The smuggler was about to fire a swift retort when the sound of voices coming in at the open window interrupted him.
That he was a smuggler was a matter of insignificance.
The Lord Mayor: I can’t send this woman to prison, and she knows it well, but I shall punish every experienced smuggler I catch as severely as I can.
It is a curious and amusing fact that the great smuggler and real delinquent was Napoleon himself.
Was that smuggler still lurking around the mine and had the other one reached the border without being caught?
A moment later she remarked, "I shouldn't wonder if that Luis was hired by the smuggler to do all the damage he could.
Your mentioning the smuggler reminds me that the pottery woman said she'd have the pottery ready for us today," put in Florence.
She hurried back to the shed where Jose was still waiting, as she was anxious to know how things had been running at the mine, and especially if he had seen anything of the smuggler hanging around.
She had described the smuggler so carefully to him that he would be able to recognize him.
All at once the thought flashed into her mind that perhaps the smuggler was at the bottom of this accident.
As soon as Jose came to the house that evening, Jo Ann slipped to the kitchen to ask him if he had seen the smuggler hanging around the mine.
I don't understand why the smuggler should've hit the boy," put in Jo Ann bewilderedly.
No Spaniard ever comes here for pleasure; hence the localities are given up to the smuggler and izard.
So soon as the governor was aboard, the smuggler let go the hawser, and set sail.
The smuggler usually disappeared near this island, which came in time to be named for him, and it is related that one night the officers, having had a long chase, found his boat on this island and turned it adrift on the lake.
The smuggler never appeared afterwards, but some years later a fisherman, seeking shelter from a squall under the lee of the island, discovered the cave hidden under foliage and explored it.
Lake Memphramagog has its Indian legends of massacre and escape, but its chief modern tradition is of a noted smuggler named Skinner, who in the early nineteenth century performed prodigious feats of skill in eluding the revenue officers.
I didn't think it was your business to take a smuggler by the neck and haul him along to the sheriff," said Harry with a reproachful air.
They dragged the smuggler to his feet and Frank saw that his jacket was torn to pieces and that the back of his neck from which it fell away was red.
But what does your smuggler do, miss--your rollicking, dare-devil chap of a smuggler?
The battle of the smugglers was not touched, as they deemed that treachery to their smuggler friends.
Another command, and gently the smuggler vessel drew in to the landing.
She's done for," gleefully said the smuggler captain, as the next moment the lugger glided into the bay.
Returning to Chislett and the breathless route of Smuggler Bill and his companions, Up Street hamlet, and Westbere are passed; Westbere itself in a deep hollow on a slip road plunging down romantically from that dreary highway.
The last smuggler has long since died, less in the odour of sanctity than of unexcised schnapps, and not since sixty years ago has a witch been credibly reported, sailing athwart the moon on a besom.
The bridge gained by Smuggler Bill is that which joins Kent and the Isle of Thanet, the successor of that original pont built in 1485, on the site of "the common ferry when Thanet was full iled.
Vince, as one of the smuggler crew made fast a rope to the ring-bolt in their stern.
The captain never left the deck, and the boats were going to and fro constantly; but they took nothing ashore, and it was evident that the smuggler meant to clear out the cavern, whose stores were far greater than the boys could have believed.
Besides his calling as a fisherman, and his adventures as a smuggler on sea, Harry also made frequent inland excursions.
But in the character of the smugglerthere was much that was interesting--there were many bold and redeeming points.
At length the smuggler suddenly drew up his horse, and exclaimed, "Dismount!
It was about an hour after nightfall, and within ten minutes the smuggler again entered the room.
O, that Kennedy was murdered: it's an old case which has occurred on that coast before now, the case of Smuggler versus Exciseman.
Glossin paused, and, fertile in expedients, hastily ran over his project in his own mind, and then drew near the smuggler with a confidential air.
Ere thesmuggler could draw another pistol, Dinmont closed with him, and endeavoured by main force to pinion down his arms.
In the interview which took place between them, no one else being present, it transpired that Glossin had been a kind of partner with the smuggler at the time of Kennedy's murder and the disappearance of young Harry Bertram.
By making large promises to Hatteraick he induced the smuggler to agree to come by night, with a large body of his men, to the prison where Bertram would be confined for his attack on Hazlewood, and to break open the doors and carry him off.
Meg Merrilies, on reaching the interior, was greeted by Dirck Hatteraick with a curse in his old fashion--the smuggler had been expecting her, and was waiting with anxiety for news of his band.
He had afterwards been sent to India; but the smuggler knew nothing of him from the time he went there.
When the prisoner was introduced to the magistrate's room, Glossin at once recognised that it was Dirck Hatteraick, the smuggler captain.
A terrific struggle ensued between the smuggler and his assailants, in which Hatteraick contrived to discharge a second bullet at Bertram, which only missed its mark by a lucky accident.
During the conversation that ensued between them he learned from the smuggler what had become of young Bertram after Kennedy's murder.
It was universally believed that the attacking party was a smuggler or a gipsy, and that he had attempted in broad daylight to murder the young man.
Great was the alarm and confusion the next morning when it was discovered that the smuggler had escaped from prison.
And so saying he hastened away to complete with the smuggler captain the villainous plan on which they had previously agreed.
The repentant smuggler was again locked up in Winchester Gaol for a weary succession of months.
Every single act of kindness he had ever performed was magnified a hundredfold, and the common smuggler became a hero.
Tommy Johnson was a smuggler of the modern school, about which it is hardly necessary to say more than that it differs considerably from the old or the ideal school.
The days previous to trial were days of anxiety to the smuggler and his wife.
That the smuggler then had friends was here demonstrated.
There were her own footprints clearly defined in the damp earth--but there was no sign that either Bill or the smuggler had passed that way.
This smuggler boss or his accomplices over here must live in the neighborhood.
Because that smuggler may simply be hiding in the woods in hopes that we'll come after him and that we'll leave these airbuses unguarded.
The smuggler being the aggressor in this case, naturally started to climb when he spotted the Ryan.
By shutting off his engine and by kicking his rudder alternately right and left with comparatively slow and heavy movements, the smuggler pilot sent his plane's nose swinging from side to side.
He never spoke another word, but furiously leaping at the smuggler chief, fell back into his own boat, and died, without a syllable, without a groan.
With these words the wealthy merchant of the Zuyder-Zee drew forth his ancient inkhorn, smeared with the dirt of countless contracts, and signed an acquittance which the smuggler had prepared.
You broke in disgracefully," said the smugglerto himself, "upon my privacy when it should have been most sacred.
Neither did he even relent and comfort, according to his custom, toward the end; that part was there, but he left it out; and the only consolation for any poor smuggler in all the discourse was the final Amen.
With his usual quickness, and the self-esteem which added such lustre to his character, the smuggler perceived what was passing in her mind, but he was not rude enough to say so.
She was not the girl to give her heart before it was even asked for; and hitherto she had regarded the smuggler with pity more than admiration.
Mary knew that this was not very likely; still, it was just possible, for Willie's ill tempers seldom lasted very long; and she wanted to let the smuggler know that she had not come all alone to meet him.
The smugglerhad had no idea of the wealth of the man he had been cultivating.
The special agent assured the smuggler that he would be as pleased in making a run back to the mainland as in loafing in the Hotel Myrtlebank, if there were amusement in it and a chance to make some money in an interesting way.
One day the supposed retired glass manufacturer confessed to the smuggler that he had once made some easy money by backing some men who had a system of beating the poolrooms.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "smuggler" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
