How To Use Smollett In A Sentence
- In the literature of the eighteenth century the warrant is inseparably associated with the short, incurvated service sword commonly known as the cutlass or hanger; but in the press-gang prints of the period the gangsmen are generally armed with stout clubs answering to Smollett's The Press-Gang Afloat and Ashore
- Captain Smollett, the squire, and Dr Livesey were talking together on the quarterdeck, and, anxious as I was to tell them my story, I durst not interrupt them openly .
- The strappado as described by Smollett, however, is a more severe form of torture even than that practised by the Inquisition, and we can only hope that his description of its brutality is highly coloured. Travels through France and Italy
- 'I have a chart here,'says Captain Smollett.'see if that's the place.'
- Captain Smollett had eyes in the back of his head and a sense of timing that was extrasensory. FAIRYLAND
- In the literature of the eighteenth century the warrant is inseparably associated with the short, incurvated service sword commonly known as the cutlass or hanger; but in the press-gang prints of the period the gangsmen are generally armed with stout clubs answering to Smollett's The Press-Gang Afloat and Ashore
- It started with visits of convalescents like Tobias Smollett, devastated by the loss of a teenage daughter, and heading down to Nice in the spring of 1763.
- Vince the Vile Smollett was young, stocky, and boasted a bristly brown mustache. FAIRYLAND
- Navarre on the other is not likely, however, to appeal to that part of the English and American reading public that expurgates its Chaucer, and blushes at the mention of Fielding and Smollett. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 3
- The callosity of Smollett's midshipman, who spat in the pressed man's face when he dared to complain of his sufferings, and roughly bade him die for aught he cared, was characteristic of the service. The Press-Gang Afloat and Ashore
