He was a simple-minded, good-natured dolt and not above earning an honest dollar by smuggling in tobacco for the convicts.
At the worst, his conscience could have accused him only of smuggling in some harmless tobacco.
Winwood said that the forty men in the break, in whose confidence he was, had already such power in the Prison that they were about to begin smuggling in automatic pistols by means of the guards they had bought up.
Indeed, the caves artificially constructed for the purpose of holding "run" goods still exist in several places; and many capital stories are told of the good old smuggling days, and the way in which the revenue officers were cheated.
That smuggling was carried on to a very large extent on this coast in former times cannot be doubted.
For any delicate mission, such as smuggling liquor into the "Carcer," he was absolutely useless.
The Latimer letters were never directly traced to him, but it's a cinch that he had something to do with their preparation, just as he had with the blackmailing of old man Branchfield and the smuggling of the van Husen emeralds.
The Petersens were either hand in glove with the gang that was running the silk across the border or they were doing the smuggling themselves.
That Chinese hatchet up there came very close to being buried in the skull of a man in San Diego, but its principal mission in life was the solution of the mystery surrounding the smuggling of thousands of pounds of opium.
For the first time the government agent realized what the girl had meant when she intimated that Wah Lee and Sprague were one and the same--an American who was masquerading as Chinese in order to further hissmuggling plans!
Evidently the instructions from Washington had been such as to make the entire force fear for their jobs unless the smuggling combination was broken up quickly.
It was suspected that he had been mixed up in a number of exceptionally clever smuggling schemes and that he had had a finger in one or two operations which came perilously close to blackmail.
Yes, back of that quarter lies a case which is absolutely unique in the annals of governmental detective work--the biggest and most far-reaching smuggling plot ever discovered and the one which took the longest time to solve.
There are too many ramifications to any well-planned smuggling scheme, and it is too easy for some one to claim that he had found them in a long-forgotten chest in the attic or some such story as that.
Still playing his hunch that Phyllis Dodge had something to do with the smuggling game, he had put in time cultivating the only person on this side that appeared to know her--the maid.
Fair Trade and Foul Play Smuggling at the beginning of the nineteenth century, and right up to the middle of it, was rampant, and was regarded as a wholesome profession by those who carried it on.
The story spread, and grew as it was passed along, until it became the most colossal smuggling enterprise ever known in the country.
I had resolved that when I grew up I would secretly leave my home and join some smuggling lugger.
He was quite frank in stating to his wife that he feared if Turnbull came and prayed with them he would get him to join the chapel folk, and there would be no more poaching or smuggling after that.
They saw that through him the day of smuggling on that part of the coast was well-nigh over--if not over altogether.
The naval man gave his as Thomas Turnbull, and explained that he was sent to organize some system of resistance to the smuggling that was being carried on along that part of the coast.
It would not be the first time you were in a smuggling game.
Ask some of your smuggling friends that you go to meet out beyond the East Town.
Did I tell the pleece 'bout Mark Nackley when he was in trouble over the smuggling and hid away?
Leslie, as cynical old Uncle Luke's hints about the smuggling flashed across his mind.
Some of his bolder companions devised a scheme for smuggling him on board a swift merchant ship, but it was foiled by the vigilant watch of the British squadron off the islands of Oléron and Ré.
Property does not avenge, I hope, the injuries which smuggling suffers.
Sometimes the ones who smuggle for him are caught, but he is not, because he does no smuggling himself.
He had heard that smuggling gold from the Philippines into China was big business.
Now he had no doubt that the chap was a revenue-officer who had come to spy out his smuggling operations, and only pretended to be in search of wrecked timber as a cloak for his real designs.
He certainly should not agree to the carrying on of further smuggling operations, and so there was a barrier to their amicable relations at the very outset.
The extraordinary cheapness on one side of the Neutral Ground, as compared with the dearness on the other, is a temptation to smuggling which it requires more virtue than the Spaniards possess to resist.
Of course the Spanish officers are indignant at the duplicity which permits this smugglingto take place, and utter great oaths in sonorous Castilian against their treacherous neighbors.
For example: It is a constant source of complaint on the part of Spain that Gibraltar is the headquarters for smuggling across the frontier.
But smugglingis not the worst of the complications that arise out of having a fortress in a foreign country.
It was hard to persuade those wild, daring men that there was anything wrong in smuggling the articles they had honestly purchased with their own money.
There was formerly another class of Deal boats, the forty-feet smuggling boats of sixty or seventy years ago.
There is little or no smuggling now, and the little that there is, is almost forced on the men by foreign vessels.
Not very many years ago boats lay on Deal beach with hollow masts to hold tea--then an expensive luxury, and fitted with boxes and lockers having false bottoms, and all manner of smuggling contrivances.
I could detect no sign of surveillance, but in view of the fact that the smuggling of relics out of Egypt is a punishable offence my caution was dictated by wisdom.
Observe, madam, the English Government encourage the smuggling of our manufactures to the Continent, at the same time that they take every step to prevent articles being smuggled into this country.
Smuggling is, at all events, no crime; and I infinitely prefer the wild life I lead at the head of my men to being spurned by society because I am poor.
He was amused with the smuggling and the fright of his sister, still more with the gentlemen being sent to Cherbourg, and much consoled that he was not the only one to be laughed at.
Go in God's keeping," and room was made by the robbers for the safe passage of the smuggling train.
A woman who would give away the last shawl from her back will insist on smuggling her gloves through the Custom-house.
Look at the customary frauds in making returns to the income-tax, and then say whether the middle-classes are a whit more honest in fiscal matters now than they used to be when smuggling was rife.
In this excellent book of smuggling life on the south coast of England, dating about 1830, from some of the passing comments made by the author, we read of the adventures of two boys living on a small off-shore island.
Vince looked up inquiringly when the smuggling captain came and stood before him; but the man did not speak--he only glared down, apparently with the idea that he was frightening the lads horribly.
As for the captain, it seemed absurd to associate him with smuggling or pistols, for he played the host in the most amiable manner when fish succeeded the soup; but as it was being discussed there were hurried sounds on deck.
Those things looked new, I know; but they must be as old as old, for if any smuggling had been going on here we must have seen or heard of it.
I wouldn't have any one know for the world; and do be careful about smuggling things down here.
Cormorant Crag, a Tale of the Smuggling Days, by George Manville Fenn.
My smuggling days are ovaire, and I have been expecting zis every day zese ten years.
And smuggling and kidnapping," said Mike bitterly.
Many was the curious scene that I thus saw, now floating faintly before my memory as a remembered dream; and many were the means employed to make the amiable practice of smuggling palatable to the taste of the heir of Bigorre.
That is not how it struck Leaker's mother: There was a good deal of smugglinggoing on in the town when I was a girl, and one day a member of my mother's chapel brought some gay things for her to buy.
Tales of the oldsmuggling days would fill many pages, and undoubtedly the profession formed the major commercial asset not only of Seaford but of more important Sussex towns both on the coast and on the roads leading to the capital.
This legend was made good use of by the smuggling fraternity, the thumping of an empty keg being sufficient to scare away inconvenient visitors.
The bridge leads to the "Sussex Pad," a noted smuggling hostelry in a situation ideal for the purpose, and then on to Lancing and Sompting.
There was a big smuggling job lately, and they were keeping it quiet.
Then Henry told of finding the handkerchief in the hut, and lastly Will explained how he had found out that the diamonds were the booty of a smuggling plot.
There he heard that the Firefly was in harbour, but had discovered no trace of the smuggling lugger, though she had been south as far as the Humber.
I trust the apparent egotism of smuggling my likeness into print in a suit of goatskins, on the pretext of exhibiting the suit itself, will be excused by the absolute necessity of filling it up with something.
Well, Dore's time of servitude was up for thesmuggling affair, and soon after that the brig put into Portsmouth harbour.
When the war was over he took to smuggling again, and he soon got command of a large cutter.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "smuggling" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
