The crew of the bark had assembled on the quarterdeck, stout English tars every man of them, armed with pikes and belaying-pins; and at a word from the mate they rushed in a body over the plank.
Ten stately trees adorn the isle, The house, a crazy, tottering pile, Where once the doctor plied his trade On feverishtars and rakes decayed.
So they dotted it with colliers, to provide the tars with work, With provision boats and oilers, that they dared not dodge or shirk.
It has caused a lot of howling amongst our tars at sea, So I'll tell to you the story as a sailor told it me: Sure a little bit of wastage fell from out the sky one day, And it fell into the ocean in a spot up Scotland way.
There was wild cheering among the British tars on the Brigadier when they learned they were to have a hand in one of the greatest and most dangerous enterprises attempted in the whole war.
One of the tarscrumpled up in the doorway, while one of the Germans also threw up his hands and slid to the floor.
The storming force, which had embarked in the Vindictive, was now reinforced by a hundred British tars from the Brigadier, headed by Frank, and additional sailors from the Iris and Gloucester.
In the aft turret of the Brigadier the British tars were sweating and muttering imprecations at their inability to put a shell aboard the enemy.
This was accomplished with astonishing rapidity and amid the cheering of the crew and passengers of the Ventura and the wild hurrahs of the British tars of the Essex.
The British tars under Frank's command went forward with a wild yell.
Instantly men sprang to obey the command, while others of the British tars still stood quietly behind their guns, their eyes scanning the sea.
A launch loaded with British tars had put off from the Lion and was making toward the German flagship.
All ready, sir," came the reply from the tars who were standing by to throw them, and then there ensued a few breathless moments of intense silence.
Our antagonists fought with the desperate bravery of men who already felt the halters settling round their necks; but whoever heard of British tars yielding an enemy's deck when once their feet were firmly planted upon it?
With nine good English tars aboard an English brig I thought I could snap my fingers at Duguay-Trouin in a smack.
The tars were his to a man: but the officers were either his dear friends or his bitter foes.
We must be very careful; I don't make light of the difficulties before us, but we shouldn't be worth the name of English tars if we didn't make the best use of this opportunity that Providence has offered us.
We swarmed up, half a 'dozen of us together, the men shouting and cursing as Jack tars will, and met with a very warm reception.
Heavy bets were made relative to hitting the target, the iron was well thrown, and every moment increased the eagerness of the tars to get fairly alongside.
Admiral Nelson recruiting with his bravetars after the glorious Battle of the Nile.
A bacchanalian scene, picturing the diversions of salts on shore in the days when tars indulged in such jocularities as frying gold watches, and eating one-pound Bank Notes on bread and butter.
Welsh Sailor's Mistake, The, or Tarsin Conversation, ii.
Admiral Nelson Recruiting with his Brave Tarsafter the Glorious Battle of the Nile, i.
The French Canadians and half-breeds bowed, shook hands, and addressed the tars as messieurs.
My position happened to be somewhat secluded, and I had in my hands a scrap of an old New York Ledger, that one of the tars had loaned me.
In our mess I think there were four of as jolly, good-hearted tars as may be found in any navy, who vied with each other in their efforts to make my stay with them as comfortable as possible.
The Brave Tars of the 'Victory,' and the Remains of the lamented Nelson.
Admiral Nelson recruiting with his brave Tars after the Battle of the Nile.
Certain smartly-rigged tars have just come on shore, evidently after a handsome haul in the way of prize-money, as the spruceness of their turn-out evinces.
Admiral Nelson Recruiting with his Brave Tars after the Glorious Battle of the Nile.
The Welsh Sailor's Mistake, orTars in Conversation.
The tars gave a cheer at the sight of this reinforcement, especially as one of the newcomers was a naval officer--for Dick had bought the uniform of a naval officer killed in the fight of the 1st.
In five minutes all the tars and the Highlanders--who arrived on the ground immediately after the sailors--were at work pulling down houses, so as to arrest the progress of the flames by isolating the burning block.
The astonishment of the people of Cawnpore at the appearance of the brawny tars was unbounded.
For quarter of an hour the tars labored assiduously; and many a bedridden old woman, or a forgotten baby, did they bring out.
Lounging about with the other tars on the forward deck the boys found their friend, Tom Marlin.
This concluded the great-gun drill, and the boys and the crew of the forward turret joined the other tars assembled on the forward deck, awaiting the sounding of the supper call.
Murray turned, and saw the two stalwart British tars standing beside Thyra.
The sturdy tars bent to their oars, and the boat left the murmuring waters of the sunlit Mediterranean.
Emissaries were constantly at work, endeavouring to inflame their passions, and poison the source of honour; but though the gallant tars were true to themselves, and to each other, they were also faithful to their country.
Four pieces were evidently used, and they were fired with considerable rapidity, proving that the British tars who formed her ship's company had seen service in the navy.
In a very short space of time the six-oar craft was pulling with all the muscle of her British tars for the scene of peril, and not more than two cables' length astern of the second cutter of the Guardian-Mother.
But her conduct looks heathenish, and I will warrant that she was not an English steamer; for the British tars never pass by their fellow-beings on the ocean in distress without rendering assistance.
Cheering British tars beset the gallant Frenchmen on all sides; man after man of the defenders fell, and in two minutes from the time when the last boat's crew boarded, the cutter was once more in English hands.
I've seed Jack Tarson donkeys, and orficers on hosses," said he.
Mounted on a cask, the orator launched at once into the war, showed how we had been forced into it by the injustice of England, and dwelt with great unction on the separate naval victories the brave tars had gained.
Those gallant tars saw the quivering lip of their noble commander when he spoke of capture, and scarcely a dry eye was seen on deck.
Several tars from the steamer descended to assist.
The tars regarded the whole affair as a glorious joke, and raced from house to house, making a hasty search in each for concealed valuables before setting it on fire.
The tars were now at work firing the gingals attached to the bulwarks and the matchlocks with which the deck was strewn, at the approaching junks.
With wild cheers the Hawk's crew tumbled into the boats and boarded the prize, but the steamer's rail was lined with riflemen and the popping Mausers drove the Hawk's tars back to their ship.
Our Yankee tars had won the fight, and won it without the loss of a man.
If it had not been for the excitement of taking occasional prizes, the blockading of Havana would have been dull business for the Jack Tars aboard the North Atlantic squadron.
Though our old Tars can do much, they cannot do everything; and it would be unsafe and dastardly to lie skulking behind them.
Hearts of oak are our ships, Jolly tars are our men, &c.
They boast in the dark they will give us the slip: The attempt may procure them a dangerous dip; Our bold Tars are watching in Ocean’s green lap, To give them a long Jacobinical nap.
As a specimen of the bombast of the time, we may take the subjoined illustration of what our Tars would do with Napoleon.
A grocer ran out of his door to beg the tars wouldn't think of such a thing, and the village constable came shoving himself in with the beadle.
We have never heard a more cheerful, hearty, and cordial shout than that which welcomed the gallant tars of the Niagara as they moved up Broadway.
On arriving at the Cooper Institute the tars were saluted with a discharge of fireworks and the hearty cheers of the multitude.
Tyrant Nicky, you may fume and boast, And with threats disturb each peaceful coast, But you reckoned have without your host, For you're no good to our tars and Charley.
For your cowardly tricks at Sinope Bay, Most dearly we will make you pay, For ourtars will show you bonny play, While commanded by brave Charley.
Despotic Nick, you've been too fast, To get Turkey within your grasp, But a Tartar you have caught at last, In the shape of our tars and Charley.
Our gallanttars led by Napier, May bid defiance to the Bear.
Our jolly tars will have to tell, How they the Russian bears did quell, And each honest heart with pride will dwell, For our jackets blue, and Charley.
For tho' brave Nelson, he is dead, Our tars will be to victory led.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "tars" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
