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Example sentences for "swamper"

Lexicographically close words:
swallows; swam; swamme; swamp; swamped; swampers; swamping; swamps; swampy; swan
  1. Penny and Louise thanked the swamper and paid him for use of the boat.

  2. After a few minutes, the swamper thrust the pan back into its hiding place.

  3. The two girls, students at Riverview high school, had rented the skiff early that afternoon from Trapper Joe Scoville, a swamper who lived alone in a shack at the swamp's edge.

  4. Penny held her breath, knowing that if the swamper should walk down the shore even a dozen yards, he would see the Widow Jones waiting in the skiff.

  5. To their intense relief, the swamper made no such move.

  6. Jerry revealed that the swamper already had been taken prisoner at Lookout Island.

  7. The swamper stared steadily at her a moment, saying nothing.

  8. Ten minutes later, as the girls brought up at Trapper Joe's place, they saw the lean old swamper standing near the dock, skinning a rabbit.

  9. He looked about him as if he expected the swamper to materialize out of thin air.

  10. Sam had started for the house, carrying Jeems as if the long-legged swamper was the same age and size as his own small son.

  11. This swamper may be tough," ventured Red.

  12. And the swamper knew a secret way into the house!

  13. But he stepped into the bedroom where the swamper was still imprisoned by Lucy's orders.

  14. The swamper looked up at Val's hail but this time he did not leave.

  15. After the first quick glance, Jeems hadn't looked at him, but Val knew that the swamper was ready and waiting to take advantage of any diversion he might make.

  16. In the weeks which followed their emergence from the threatened tomb, the swamper had unobtrusively slipped into a place in the household.

  17. Yes," Val replied firmly as Ricky pushed the swamper down.

  18. Ah gave it to him Monday," said the swamper slowly.

  19. But the swamper gave no sign of seeing Val.

  20. It was as if Val were looking down upon a younger and less confident edition of the swamper he had known.

  21. Val stood there, ill at ease, while the swamper eyed him composedly.

  22. The swamper turned on his heel and padded toward the French windows.

  23. But in answer the swamper shook his head violently, "It ain't all right in the swamp.

  24. A Canuck swamper named Leduc complained to me that the boss slipped up on him and knocked him insensible with a club.

  25. Several times during the winter he had tentatively broached plans and insinuated means whereby the Swede could "accidentally" remove his swamper from their path.

  26. The swamper disclaimed the generous imputation with a shake of the head.

  27. The swamper dashed the moisture from his eyes and summoned a look of stubborn resolve.

  28. The swamper stood up with his own eyes full, but his voice was firm.

  29. The principal tavern there stands on that corner of the court-house square to which the swamper would naturally come first.

  30. A swamper from a port-side dive simply did not become a gearman for a Guild Hunter.

  31. Of course, it couldn't happen to him, Vye Lansor, state child, swamper in the Starfall.

  32. It was hard now to think back to Nahuatl--as if the Vye Lansor who had been swamper in that den of the port town was a different person altogether.

  33. A swamper from one of the worst rat holes in the port.

  34. She pointed at the swamper as coolly as if he were an inanimate object, and he glared at her in return, then dropped his eyes.

  35. The carpenter was putting in a new set of timbers, and his task was nearly finished, while beside him waited a drill man and a swamper with the cumbersome, spiderlike mechanism ready to set.

  36. One day Swamper Ike went out to look for a piece of onyx that he could polish and give to the girl he loved.

  37. He obtained a job as swamper for the Borax Company.

  38. Knowing this, Swamper Ike was always alert for these hieroglyphs on any boulder he passed or in any canyon he entered.

  39. The Panamint is the locale of the legend of Swamper Ike, first told I believe by Old Ranger over a nation-wide hookup, while he was M.


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