CHOUANS (a Bas-Breton word signifying screech-owls), the name applied to smugglers and dealers in contraband salt, who rose in insurrection in the west of France at the time of the Revolution and joined the royalists of La Vendee. [Please select]
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Alan had shown Marjorie where the secret entrance to the cave was, and called it the Smugglers' Hole, for want of a better name. [Please select]
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She could get to the Smugglers' Hole more quickly if she ran round by the path to the cliffs. [Please select]
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To have remained would have been to forfeit his life, for the betrayed smugglers had many friends. [Please select]
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Many were no worse than smugglers; others were robbers with violence; and a few had a dash of the fiend. [Please select]
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But take care of yourself, lad; don't go swimming off the Land's End again, and above all things avoid smugglers. [Please select]
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It was a favourite resort of smugglers, and many a gallon of spirit, free of duty, had been consumed on the premises. [Please select]
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No pursuit took place, as the smugglers had enough to do to defend themselves against the dragoons. [Please select]
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Toward this habitation the smugglers now led their young captive, having first removed the gag from his mouth. [Please select]
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Lieutenant Driscoll was in command at the fort and he could be counted on to bring the smugglers to terms. [Please select]
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Yes, I will leave word that I have gone in the sudden pursuit of smugglers; or I will remain here as you wish, and send those who may follow back again. [Please select]
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