How To Use Smollett In A Sentence
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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
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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 .
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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
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'I have a chart here,'says Captain Smollett.'see if that's the place.'
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Captain Smollett had eyes in the back of his head and a sense of timing that was extrasensory.
FAIRYLAND
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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
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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.
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Vince the Vile Smollett was young, stocky, and boasted a bristly brown mustache.
FAIRYLAND
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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
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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
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Freed from the necessity of a systematic delineation Smollett rambles about Nice, its length and breadth, with a stone in his pouch, and wherever a cockshy is available he takes full advantage of it.
Travels through France and Italy
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Emilia, in her scene with Peregrine in the bouge to which he has carried her, rises much above Smollett's heroines, and we could like her, if she had never forgiven behaviour which was beneath pardon.
Adventures Among Books
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Apart from these and the English girls in French seminaries it was estimated ten years after Smollett’s sojourn there that there were twenty-four English families in residence.
Travels through France and Italy
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The implication reminded Smollett of a narrow escape from a duello at Ghent in 1749 with a Frenchman.
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I hate the French cookery, and abominate garlick," Tobias Smollett told his readers 245 years ago, with a snooty disregard for foreigners that runs through too much travel writing today.
Travel writing: Lost art in search of a lost world | Editorial
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If he owed to Smollett's Humphrey Clinker the form of his Up the Rhine, he has equalled Smollett in the narrative, in the variety of character, and in the admirable cacography of Martha Penny.
English Literature, Considered as an Interpreter of English History Designed as a Manual of Instruction
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I hate the French cookery, and abominate garlick," Tobias Smollett told his readers 245 years ago, with a snooty disregard for foreigners that runs through too much travel writing today.
Travel writing: Lost art in search of a lost world | Editorial
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Sorensen retails an anecdote of Smollett walking with another Scot in London around the time of the battle of Culloden, their swords drawn, Smollett warning his companion to keep his mouth shut lest the mob recognize his Scottish accent.
