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Page 56
... ship seized as a smuggler unless taken red - handed or unless contraband was found aboard a vessel . Many a smuggler escaped by destroying the evi- dence when hard pressed , and many were the clev- 56 SMUGGLERS AND SMUGGLING.
... ship seized as a smuggler unless taken red - handed or unless contraband was found aboard a vessel . Many a smuggler escaped by destroying the evi- dence when hard pressed , and many were the clev- 56 SMUGGLERS AND SMUGGLING.
Page 59
... aboard as soon as the coast was clear . Very often , too , contraband that was not injured by immersion , especially liquors , would be dropped overboard with a buoy attached by some incoming ship , to be picked up later by the ...
... aboard as soon as the coast was clear . Very often , too , contraband that was not injured by immersion , especially liquors , would be dropped overboard with a buoy attached by some incoming ship , to be picked up later by the ...
Page 73
... aboard a British man - o ' - war on the high seas . This , then , added another to the many thorns in the sides of coastwise dwellers on both shores of the channel , and many a man joined the smugglers out of pure desire to devil the ...
... aboard a British man - o ' - war on the high seas . This , then , added another to the many thorns in the sides of coastwise dwellers on both shores of the channel , and many a man joined the smugglers out of pure desire to devil the ...
Page 91
... a fishing vessel with the brandy to Cuckmere , where he understood they would be met by a motor - car . The two men were each fined £ 291 and 15 guineas costs . " CHAPTER V ALL ABOARD THE LUGGER Ime usa wohurst and THE BRITISH SMUGGLERS 91.
... a fishing vessel with the brandy to Cuckmere , where he understood they would be met by a motor - car . The two men were each fined £ 291 and 15 guineas costs . " CHAPTER V ALL ABOARD THE LUGGER Ime usa wohurst and THE BRITISH SMUGGLERS 91.
Page 92
Alpheus Hyatt Verrill. CHAPTER V ALL ABOARD THE LUGGER Ime usa wohurst and must not be assumed , however , that because the Hawkhurst and Ruxley gangs , and their ilk , had been broken up and destroyed , that smuggling ... ABOARD THE LUGGER.
Alpheus Hyatt Verrill. CHAPTER V ALL ABOARD THE LUGGER Ime usa wohurst and must not be assumed , however , that because the Hawkhurst and Ruxley gangs , and their ilk , had been broken up and destroyed , that smuggling ... ABOARD THE LUGGER.
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Popular passages
Page 71 - ... restores him to health; on the ermine which decorates the judge, and the rope which hangs the criminal; on the poor man's salt, and the rich man's spice; on the brass nails of the coffin and the ribands of the bride; at bed or board; couchant or levant we must pay.
Page 82 - If you wake at midnight, and hear a horse's feet, Don't go drawing back the blind, or looking in the street. Them that asks no questions isn't told a lie. Watch the wall, my darling, while the Gentlemen go by!
Page 71 - His whole property is then immediately taxed from two to ten per cent. Besides the probate, large fees are demanded for burying him in the chancel ; his virtues are handed down to posterity on taxed marble ; and he...
Page 71 - Taxes on the sauce which pampers man's appetite, and the drug that restores him to health ; on the ermine which decorates the judge, and the rope which hangs the criminal ; on the poor man's salt, and the rich man's spice; on the brass nails of the coffin, and the ribands of the bride.
Page 31 - ... wood, of the growth, production, or manufacture of any English plantations in America, Asia, or Africa, shall be shipped, carried, conveyed, or transported from any of the said English plantations, to any land, island, territory, dominion, port, or place whatsoever, other than to such other English plantations as do belong to his Majesty...
Page 71 - Taxes on everything on earth, and the waters under the earth ; on everything that comes from abroad, or is grown at home. Taxes on the raw material ; taxes on every fresh value that is added to it by the industry of man. Taxes on the sauce which pampers...
Page 31 - ... any land, island, territory, dominion, port, or place whatsoever, other than to such other English plantations as do belong to his Majesty, his...
Page 141 - A little tea, one leaf I did not steal. For guiltless bloodshed I to God appeal ; Put tea in one scale, human blood in t'other And think what 'tis to slay a harmless brother.
Page 142 - I am not dead, but sleepeth here, And when the Trumpet Sound I will appear. Four balls thro' me Pearced there way. Hard it was. I'd no time to pray. This stone that here you Do see My Comerades erected for the sake of me.