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Smuggled   /smˈəgəld/   Listen
verb
Smuggle  v. t.  (past & past part. smuggled; pres. part. smuggling)  
1.
To import or export secretly, contrary to the law; to import or export without paying the duties imposed by law; as, to smuggle lace.
2.
Fig.: To convey or introduce clandestinely.


Smuggle  v. i.  To import or export in violation of the customs laws.





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"Smuggled" Quotes from Famous Books



... the kittens, and tell her that George's brandy is just what smuggled spirits might be expected to be, execrable! The smack of it remains in my mouth, and I believe will keep me most horribly temperate for half a century. He (Burnet) was bit, but I caught the Brandiphobia.[36] [obliterations ...]—scratched ...
— Reminiscences of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey • Joseph Cottle
... pointed out to him books calculated to settle his mind on the truth and catholicity of the Church, and had warned him against meddling with the fiery controversial tracts which, smuggled in often through Lucas's means, had set his mind in commotion. And for the present at least beneath the shadow of the great man's intelligent devotion, ...
— The Armourer's Prentices • Charlotte Mary Yonge
... first reaction from this dimly felt loss that he lit one day on a volume which Alfieri had smuggled into the Academy—the Lettres Philosophiques of Francois Arouet ...
— The Valley of Decision • Edith Wharton
... disposed of his prisoner, having converted the cellar at the Drovers' Arms into a lock-up for the time being, and smuggled Joe Rogers in so artfully that McMahon's patrons in the bar were quite ignorant of the proximity of the prisoner and of the presence of the guardian angel sitting patiently in the next room, tenderly nursing a broken head ...
— The Gold-Stealers - A Story of Waddy • Edward Dyson
... contact. "Men of science, working men, rankers, and officers," he writes, "begged me to say what they did not dare to utter themselves." When he was arrested and when his book was seized, the manuscript was rescued and was smuggled into Switzerland. By whom? By an official German courier!—When, having fled from his post, he wished to leave Germany, and when, in the first instance, he thought of getting out of the country on foot, ...
— The Forerunners • Romain Rolland


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