Smuggled
[smʌɡld]
Definition
(imp. & p. p.) of Smuggle
Typist: Preston
Examples
- Then she wrote a short, simple note, and with Laurie's help, got them smuggled onto the study table one morning before the old gentleman was up. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- Some of those Medicis would have smuggled themselves in sure. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Even yet she used to send him little hurried smuggled notes, and pop them into the post in private. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- He makes an allowance, too, for the quantity of each metal which, he supposes, may have been smuggled. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- He smuggled wine in. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- An asp was smuggled to her past the Roman sentries, concealed in a basket of figs, and by its fangs she died. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Back in the seventies an English botanist, Wickham by name, smuggled many Hevea seeds out of Brazil. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
Typist: Preston