But the spongerhas thirty festivals a month; every day is a red-letter day with him.
Take that away, and we shall be dealing with something else, and not with a sponger at all.
It tickles me, this queer match between sponger and philosopher.
On the other hand, no one can point to a sponger who ever cared to philosophize.
Oh, there are plenty of authorities; but I will specify Aristoxenus the musician, a weighty one enough, and himself attached as a sponger to Neleus.
I must first mention that no sponger was ever in love with Philosophy; but many philosophers are recorded to have set their hearts on Sponging, to which they still remain constant.
Ah, but you see, he is not a sponger if that happens.
Let me add that I have often known even good navigators and skilful drivers come to grief, resulting with the latter in bruises and with the former in death but no one will tell you of a sponger who ever made shipwreck.
This spongerit was, then, who delivered Athens from tyranny, and now adorns the marketplace in bronze, side by side with the object of his passion.
Nestor I take to have been an exceedingly good and skilful sponger on royalty; Agamemnon was not his first patron; he had served his apprenticeship under Caeneus and Exadius.
And in a lonely place none of them would face the onset of a wild beast; the sponger will, though, and find no difficulty in disposing of it; his table familiarity with it has bred contempt.
And it is worth your notice that a parent's usual reward for a child who makes progress in the ordinary arts is just the thing that the sponger gets regularly.
I'm going to leave you here--and I'm going to charter the sponger out there.
I am going down in the sponger to the mouth of Goose River, to keep watch there; and you must stay where you are, and keep watch here.
His calm, easy manner was assumed chiefly that his other men and his guests might not dread the worst, before the belated sponger had made further progress toward the haven.
A sponger from the east'ard," repeated Bowling, having heard his assistant's report.
At last word came that the sponger had struck on the nearby shoals.
As soon as the whole charge has been introduced, the Sponger and Loader together thrust it down smartly with the rammer, as in ordinary loading.
The Loader and Sponger put in and secure the upper half-ports, if directed, and the Loader swabs the deck to collect any loose powder which may have been scattered on it.
The Loader andSponger haul up and secure the lower half-ports, put in tompion, and secure muzzle-bag.
The Loader and Sponger place the housing-chocks before the front trucks.
When the guns are to be secured without being housed the Loader and Sponger place the chocking-quoins square up against the rear part of the front trucks and put in the tompion.
The Captain hauls taut the train-tackle and chokes the luff, and the Loader and Sponger place the chocking-quoins forward of the front trucks, and proceed to sponge and load the gun in the usual manner.
On all decks places hand-swab and chocking-quoin near the ship's side on the left side of the gun; aids 1st Sponger in taking out tompion.
Since I left home I've rolled up quite a fortune as a fireman and a sponger and I can pay my little bills and have money to burn besides.
One of the crew came out in a dingy to help, but Dick asked him to pick up his boat and oar and take them to the sponger and said that he would ride back on the turtle.
The sponger lay at anchor on the sponging ground for nearly a week before the water was clear enough for work.
Pedro began to express himself in Spanish again, and, as the sponger was less than two hundred yards distant, Dick swam to it, leaving his companion to bail out the dingy and scull it to the big boat.
The deck of the sponger was piled with the result of the work of the week.
A string of four dingies trailed behind the sponger and as many poles, each thirty feet long, with a sponge-hook at one end, lay upon the deck.
The rammer and sponger lay by the side of the small field-piece.
He checked the flood of thanks on the sponger captain's lips.
The sponger captain needed no explanation but the captain's simple words to realize the terrible tortures and awful death that awaited them all if help in some shape did not soon come to their rescue.
You have still good cause for rejoicing," observed the sponger captain.
The Greek sponger 'Zenephone' was passing when she went under.
We'd be wise to push further in among these islands before morning comes along if any sponger or fisherman happened to glimpse this pair of odd sea and air craft he'd spread the story far and wide and get us in Dutch.
Charley Reck was sponger of the parrot-gun on the forecastle, and fully realized the danger and responsibility of his position.
