Bill Wayne handed over to the grateful spongers a pouch of tobacco, pipes and matches, then filled his own pipe.
We don't see many folks or have many visitors here, except the spongers and now and then the crew of some passing craft.
That is how the spongers differ from the rhetoricians and philosophers in war.
She has a new and complete diving outfit, besides pumps and everything for raising spongers who get sunk; she has been coming here for supplies.
As far as he knew it was a sort of a Saturday and Sunday rendezvous forspongers and thought that, without an arsenal on my person, I was taking chances.
We have some awful hurricanes at times coming in from the Gulf, and as they come up so quickly the spongers get caught once in a while," she replied, taking a chair opposite me at the table, ready to read her list.
A wire is attached so that it may be fired from the boat after the spongers come up.
Spongers fasten their baskets to themselves that way.
Some few of the people living on the larger islands and spongers from Key West are the only persons who engage in that work there.
Only thespongers were indifferent; but they had, of course, to look around for another liberal spendthrift.
The very bookmakers scarcely had the heart to offer him false prices, and only the public-house spongers gave him no law.
It vexed me often to see a fine, generous lad surrounded by spongers who rooked him at every turn; but what could one do?
Sometimes it is convenient for the Spongers to dip the Sponge alongside, and they soon acquire the habit.
Spongers return rammer and sponge to place, and assist in securing lashings and breeching.
Spongers and Loaders rank next in importance, and, with activity and coolness, should possess the necessary physical strength and stature.
Spongers and Loaders are to be careful to keep their bodies as much within the port as practicable, otherwise at close quarters they will be picked off by musketry.
Each day the spongers in the dingies worked farther from the sloop and each day more time was lost when the sloop made its round to pick up the spongers for dinner.
He expected that the trio of spongers would not be likely to pull out without some show of threatening the four who comprised the crew of the motor-boat.
He did not care to go too near that sharpie, for the recollection of the three rough spongers or fishermen on board deterred him from wanting to renew their acquaintance.
A shout from the sharpie had told that the spongers believed they meant to run off, and at the same time one of them was seen flourishing a gun.
Signs of life were to be seen aboard, and smoke arising from the cabin gave evidence that the three rough spongers were getting their frugal breakfast.
The trio of spongers talked among themselves for a short time, then, with many harsh words, they pushed their boat around with a pole until the dingy canvas took the breeze again, after which they sailed away.
He hoped the listening spongers would be unable to locate him in the darkness.
The old familiar click announced that he had secured a picture of the three spongers at a time when they stood out plainly.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "spongers" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
