"Smuggler" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... side, When he the tap, with dext'rous hand, applied; Nor from their seats departed, till they found That butt was out and heard the mournful sound." He praised a poacher, precious child of fun! Who shot the keeper with his own spring gun; Nor less the smuggler who th' exciseman tied, And left him hanging at the birch-wood side, There to expire;—but one who saw him hang Cut the good cord—a traitor of the gang. His own exploits with boastful glee he told, What ponds he emptied and what pikes he sold; And how, when blest with sight alert and ...
— The Parish Register • George Crabbe
... he was a harpooner); but he had been too shining and glorious a personality for me ever to address as I paddled around the yacht at a wistful distance. Would I take Scotty, the runaway sailor, to visit the harpooner, on the opium-smuggler ...
— John Barleycorn • Jack London
... of promises. He had been, if not a smuggler, at least an associate of smugglers, and all along Solwayside that was no disadvantage to him—in a country where all either dabbled in the illicit traffic, or, at best, looked the other way as the ...
— The Dew of Their Youth • S. R. Crockett
... story, that smuggler stuff," pronounced Captain Jenks. "To my mind a man who breaks the game laws is worse than a smuggler. We found the ashes of his campfire and this." He held up ...
— Four Little Blossoms on Apple Tree Island • Mabel C. Hawley
... was a smuggler's jolly-boat, and well used to it. Look how they're pulling. God pardon them, but they're in ...
— Charles O'Malley, The Irish Dragoon, Volume 1 (of 2) • Charles Lever
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