Perhaps this place was worked as a mine a hundred years before the smugglersused the cave, and they have not been here, I should say, for two or three generations.
Some fishermen once saw the smugglers stealing in here by night, and at once set them down as being supernatural.
I consider that this is as far south as the smugglers are operating while Atalissa is the northern point.
My uncle disappeared this evening and everything points to a kidnaping by this gang of smugglers we're after," explained Bob.
The feeling that some momentous activity by the smugglers was under way grew as Bob lay there on the bed.
There were a dozen closely typed sheets in the report and they reviewed in detail all of the activities of the jewelsmugglers which were known to the federal officials.
Tell me what happened," pressed Bob, for he had a feeling that in some way or another the sheriff might be connected with the smugglers who were known to be operating around Atalissa.
That is to be your headquarters for we know that somewhere in the territory adjacent to Atalissa these smugglers have been operating.
In the meantime, the smugglers would have ample time to run in a large sum of gems.
Briefly it will be your task to help bring to justice one of the most daring band of jewel smugglers that has ever operated between Europe and the United States.
The exciseman who pounced on a party of smugglers got a special reward, but he risked his life.
And neither of them seemed to think dealing with smugglers a practice, that an honest man (provided he got his goods cheap) had the least reason to be ashamed of.
The American traders and Mexican smugglers came to the relief.
The smugglers furnished the animals, and took their pay in goods of the description before mentioned.
It was soon forced in with sledgehammers and crows, and, before long, some three or four of the principal smugglers hurried to the apartment of Bertram with lighted torches, and armed with cutlasses and pistols.
Meanwhile, the smugglers under their captain, Dirck Hatteraick, had been carrying on their lawless trade as usual, and the Laird of Ellangowan was as determined to put them down as he had been to get rid of the gipsies.
Outside, the shouts of the smugglers and the mob resounded far and wide, and it seemed as if the keeper had himself escaped, and left his prisoners to perish in the flames.
No pursuit took place, as the smugglers had enough to do to defend themselves against the dragoons.
He was actively assisted in his endeavours against them by the same Frank Kennedy who had carried out the eviction of Meg Merrilies and her companions, and the smugglers had sworn to be revenged upon their enemy.
Looking from the prison window they could see the gang of smugglershurrying here and there, some with lighted torches, others carrying barrels towards the shore.
She has dared to follow the smugglers to this retreat for the purpose of seeing Jose and begging him to return.
The two smugglers presently return and report that three coast-guards intercept the way.
He found the smugglers' cache--and he found something else that the smugglers didn't know of.
The police were hot after him, but they didn't catch him and the smugglers didn't catch him either.
The notion of the deed being attributed to lawless sailors and smugglers or highwaymen, who were known to swarm in the neighbourhood, seemed to remove all danger of suspicion.
He went on to say that the spot had been chosen advisedly, with a view to communication with the opposite coast, where his old connection with the smugglers was likely to be useful in the Jacobite plots.
I know where we be, for yon's the Tilly Whim Caves, and nought but smugglers and wreckers bide hereabouts.
The church where Lizzie Newberry and her smugglersstored "the stuff" is hidden from those who pass on the highroad and is reached by a little rutty, crooked lane.
The body of the church has been rebuilt, but the tower where the smugglers looked down upon the coastguard officers searching for their casks of brandy remains the same.
I remembered when I was with Cap'n Jack's gang hearing of a cave in Gramper Bay, not far from the Irish Lady, where smugglers landed their goods.
Perhaps they thought we were smugglers like themselves, for I suppose that almost all the men on the islands were in some way interested in deceiving the king's officers.
Undoubtedly they were the smugglers who infested the coast, and who knew the secret of Granfer Fraddam's Cave.
We travelled with the other band of Indians, until we had passed the Presidio del Rio Grande, a strong Mexican fort, and the day afterwards took our farewell of them, having joined a band of smugglers who were on their way to Texas.
Immense profits have been made, to be sure; but now even the Mexican smugglers and banditti are beginning to be disgusted with the universal want of faith and probity.
Hurry is something we've got to fight shy of in this game of hide-and-seek with these dangerous smugglers of the gulf coast.
You heard me warn them to keep a watchful eye out for smugglers and hijackers by land and sea and air?
I hope we run across you boys again some day, and please keep your lip buttoned about our being down here with an amphibian to knock some of these smugglers of Chinks and rum galley-west.
One of the smugglers drew near, and addressed himself to Alcala.
To the left there, senor, are smugglers from Cadiz; many a contraband bale has galled the backs of their mules as they moved over the sierra by moonlight.
We must leave the smugglers to the retribution of Providence, and we must pay the purchasers for the negroes we wish to carry away with us.
We cannot delay our departure either to prosecute the smugglers for kidnaping, or to sue the purchasers for the recovery of the negroes.
But that I had him with me to restrain, to warn, and to counsel I should have prosecuted the smugglers for their share in the abduction of the negroes, and I should have sued the owners for the recovery of them.
The vigour of their attack made the smugglers give ground; but as they were almost immediately supported by the party from the other side of the road, the combat was renewed.
And are you lady-smugglers quite sure that you are clear of all participation in this accumulated guilt?
The fact was, that the smugglers had posted behind the sea bank, which served as a breastwork, two strong parties of sixty or seventy men each, one on each side of the passage leading to the sea.
The masons were working at it in the daytime, and at night a sentinel was posted on it, to prevent smugglers from getting in.
I had often heard talk of certain smugglers who travelled about Andalusia, each riding a good horse, with his mistress behind him and his blunderbuss in his fist.
As an officer of the contraresguardo he hated Pedro cordially; but he had no especial wish to see him shot down, now that the smugglers had recaptured the contrabando and the fight was won.
Broken by a sudden charge, the guard of smugglers was overcome; one or two were killed, half a dozen were captured, and the rest saved themselves by the speed of their horses and their knowledge of the mountain paths.
I can tell you of a great plan that the smugglers have on foot--and also of a matter very near to your own heart.
The smugglers must have had to do up their bales of silk pretty flat to get them through here," said Ben, measuring the opening with his handkerchief, as he stooped to keep from bumping his head on the top.
He had once visited some friends at Flag Point, the first settlement, and was to be their guide this morning to the great cave, which had been used, it was said, in the days when smugglers were common in the land.
Both of those men carried pistols and knives; I suppose all first-class smugglers do, but I don't propose that my party is going to be ruined by any bloodshed.
Certainly it might well have been a favorite spot for smugglersand robbers on the high seas.
In the midst of the confusion that ensued, three or four of the principal smugglers hurried to the apartment of Bertram with lighted torches, and armed with cutlasses and pistols.
There is a cave of large dimensions in the vicinity of Rueberry, which, from its being frequently used by Yawkins, and his supposed connection with the smugglers on the shore, is now called Dirk Hatteraick's cave.
The attention of thesmugglers had been otherwise and very disagreeably engaged by the sudden appearance of Mac-Morlan and the party of horse.
It was a spell, she said that an Oxford scholar had made for him, and she possessed the smugglers with an opinion, that to deprive him of it would occasion the loss of the vessel.
But thesmugglers had been reinforced, and were now pursuing them with the avowed purpose of recovering the goods, and putting to death the officers who had presumed to do their duty.
The common people of the country either favoured or feared the smugglers too much to afford any evidence against them.
Suspicion hesitated between thesmugglers and the gipsies.
These smugglers are numerous, resolute, and formidable, and have at different times become the dread of the neighbourhood when any one has interfered with their contraband trade.
He was a daft dog--Oh, an he could hae hauden aff the smugglers a bit!
Few contraband runners are caught, apparently because neither the American nor Mexican Governments seem to know the routes followed or who the leading smugglers are.
Smugglers have tried to bribe them, and the smugglers have never lived to tell of it.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "smugglers" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
