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    1. then smuggle it into the town as well as you can


    2. A pound of tea, however, is about a hundred times the bulk of one of the highest prices, sixteen shillings, that is commonly paid for it in silver, and more than two thousand times the bulk of the same price in gold, and, consequently, just so many times more difficult to smuggle


    3. Heavy duties being imposed upon almost all goods imported, our merchant importers smuggle as much, and make entry of as little as they can


    4. When the diminution of revenue is the effect of the encouragement given to smuggling, it may, perhaps, be remedied in two ways; either by diminishing the temptation to smuggle, or by increasing the difficulty of smuggling


    5. The temptation to smuggle can be diminished only by the lowering of the tax ; and the difficulty of smuggling can be increased only by establishing that system of administration which is most proper for preventing it


    6. In the distillery of malt spirits, both the opportunity and the temptation to smuggle are much greater than either in a brewery or in a malt-house ; the opportunity, on account of the smaller bulk and greater value of the commodity, and the temptation, on account of the superior height of the duties, which amounted to 3s


    7. By increasing the duties upon malt, and reducing those upon the distillery, both the opportunities and the temptation to smuggle would be diminished, which might occasion a still further augmentation of revenue


    8. The temptation to smuggle, consequently, is to many people irresistible; while, at the same time, the rigour of the law, and the vigilance of the farmer's officers, render the yielding to the temptation almost certainly ruinous


    9. I’ll just smuggle him out again


    10. As Soffen helped the suffering badgers, she managed to smuggle a few of the worst afflicted ones to her old burrow in Bluebell Clearing, where she could tend to their ills without the threat of their eviction and subsequent death

    11. The Confederacy could not smuggle in slaves any more because of the Union blockade, but no doubt would have


    12. Some time back, there had been a spectacular case blown wide open by the OIJ narcotics squad: Costa Rican diplomats were caught using their pouch privilege to smuggle cocaine to Europe


    13. When they got to the match, his dad would smuggle young Steve to the front of the crowd


    14. While Cassa worked to earn spending money for his next surfing trip throughout Asia, a plot to smuggle out the latest currency printed on plastic for the Vietnamese Communist Government was in play


    15. An insider named Gary needed a mule to smuggle the currency into Vietnam


    16. It wouldn’t work to attempt to smuggle some out


    17. The younger ones will smuggle, the older ones will bribe officials to miss the most valuable parts of their goods


    18. Unfortunately, we are too old to smuggle and too poor to bribe, so we’ll have to move


    19. It will be in Texcoco, so it will be easy to smuggle you in and with the likely throng in attendance you can certainly be there unnoticed


    20. The groups that smuggle heroin into the

    21. My classmates saw the New York trip as an opportunity to smuggle any receptive woman they met on the street into the club, alas without success


    22. Customs commissioner expressed concern about the potential of terrorist organizations to smuggle small nuclear devices by ship into major deep water sea ports


    23. way to smuggle the two of us, which aren’t chosen to lead the


    24. considerable trouble it would have taken to smuggle them to me


    25. I smuggled myself in, could I smuggle myself out again? How? I need not have worried


    26. Newton used to smuggle science into 17th century England at a time


    27. No way to smuggle them in unless you talked to a satyr, maybe


    28. “I need you to smuggle me out of the city


    29. This same method had been used to smuggle in drugs worth R57 million from Dubai and India, which the Unit had seized


    30. After a moments silence the Director said, “They are close to making a snatch, that’s how the Israeli’s do it, they snatch their prey off the street and smuggle them out to Israel then they execute them

    31. She was not yet familiar with any of the ways to smuggle the stuff in so it was a bit uncertain first time round


    32. So it wouldn’t show up in a scan, she told me to smuggle the chip out, past the security team, by covering it in tape and putting it in my mouth, at the back


    33. We could smuggle him out


    34. He knew better than to try to smuggle a crystal past Hurd, but it was still fun to hold all that money in one's hands


    35. "And to answer Brale's question about the PC's," she said as she looked at Brale, "there are two laser cannons aboard this G15 and two aboard the other G15, plus we were able to smuggle three into Newusa


    36. smuggle the white rubber ball back to his cell at this


    37. managed to smuggle something into the hospital


    38. “Was Tar-chin really sick, or was that also a part of the scheme to smuggle information into the States through me as well?” the monk asked


    39. I would later smuggle


    40. to let you take Quick’s away with you, but a friend of mine has managed to smuggle in another pair for

    41. It was difficult to smuggle the requested machines and when I was caught trying to put together a food package for the University in Harare decided it would be best to refrain from informing my friends and colleagues about who the request had originated from and why


    42. Bias smuggle the truth


    43. She had managed to smuggle out one of the Cluster’s highly guarded blueprints, and now just had to deliver it to her associates


    44. “What was she trying to smuggle?”


    45. Severe penalties were imposed on everyone who was caught contravening the regulations and attempting to smuggle gold or money out of the Turkish state, thereby attempting to stop the financial crash and strengthen the economy


    46. ’ He explained his simple but clever plan to smuggle the golden liras by hiding them in the hollowed out struts of the wooden boxes used to transport their everyday household goods


    47. Agreeing to smuggle heroin was bad


    48. Jack would back the vehicle to the penthouse’s service elevator, and give the appearance of loading office supply boxes into the back of his SUV, with Gerry’s help, and under cover of these boxes, they could smuggle Kathy into the car, while the other two would covertly slide into the back seats of the vehicle at the same time


    49. Easy to measure and easier to smuggle when the time comes


    50. about Sergi Dubanski and that Dubanski was being paid a huge bonus to smuggle something

























    1. "Unfortunately, only a handful of these weapons remained, smuggled down through the ages


    2. Gold, too, is much more liable to be smuggled than even silver; not only on account of the superior value of the metal in proportion to its bulk, but on account of the peculiar way in which nature produces it


    3. At present, the value of the tea annually imported by the English East India company, for the use of their own countrymen, amounts to more than a million and a half a year; and even this is not enough; a great deal more being constantly smuggled into the country from the ports of Holland, from Gottenburgh in Sweden, and from the coast of France, too, as long as the French East India company was in prosperity


    4. The quantity of gold and silver imported at both Cadiz and Lisbon (including not only what comes under register, but what may be supposed to be smuggled) amounts, according to the best accounts, to about six millions sterling a-year


    5. He makes an allowance, too, for the quantity of each metal which, he supposes, may have been smuggled


    6. On account of what may have been smuggled, however, the whole annual importation, he supposes, may have amounted to seventeen millions of piastres, which, at 4s


    7. On account of what may have been smuggled, however, we may safely, he says, add to this sum an eighth more, or £ 250,000 sterling, so that the whole will amount to £ 2,250,000 sterling


    8. Her friends smuggled her out from the wedding and dropped her


    9. smuggled cigarettes and the evasion tax with which


    10. They represented, secondly, that this prohibition could not hinder the exportation of gold and silver, which, on account of the smallness of their bulk in proportion to their value, could easily be smuggled abroad

    11. Brought some of it – er, smuggled some of it – from home when I first arrived here


    12. It was written by Yavi herself – she must’ve smuggled it out with the help of Milzuk


    13. To pretend to have any scruple about buying smuggled goods, though a manifest encouragement to the violation of the revenue laws, and to the perjury which almost always attends it, would, in most countries


    14. These new sailors had smuggled themselves on board the


    15. I smuggled him in


    16. As Khan’s back was turned, she took her hand from her pocket, holding the small dagger she had smuggled into the arena


    17. She knew why Alexia always won: underhanded tactics, bribery of other prisoners, smuggled weapons, pre-injured opponents


    18. “That motley crew you saw me with the other day , from the café, are dealing in stolen diamonds, smuggled out of god knows where


    19. Drugs are being smuggled into Canada, and Buffalo is one of the


    20. British and French goods were smuggled in, while American goods could not be shipped out

    21. This would have brought a death rate from 10-50% for slaves smuggled in despite the British Navy's efforts to stop the slave trade


    22. Yes, Mike smuggled coke, just like the muscleman had said, but big deal! She could see it all clearly


    23. This man, also with white hair (Dutch he believed, and whose name was Andre something-or-other), sold machines that had been smuggled into the country to avoid Costa Rica’s exorbitantly high taxes, and business with him was strictly cash


    24. As comforting as that knowledge was, he always made friends with other lads who had been smuggled to the front by their dads


    25. and bombs, but was told only to look for Bibles being smuggled into


    26. “My mother smuggled that to me when I was young


    27. I asked how they had smuggled the silk worms out of lands of the Hanjen, but he didn’t seem to know


    28. officials with cash and women to protect a crime ring that smuggled an


    29. Also, English translations of the Bible were being smuggled into England


    30. During Prohibition in the United States they had their Al Capones to deal in booze that they smuggled in - mostly from Canada

    31. The restaurants in Germany had to procure butter and other foodstuff which had to be smuggled through the closely guarded borders mostly from Denmark and Holland


    32. I smuggled myself in, could I smuggle myself out again? How? I need not have worried


    33. I remember my sisters and brothers sometimes smuggled banned books home


    34. weeks, she smuggled them into The Boutique in a tote bag she


    35. smuggled someone aboard who was not registered for the trip


    36. `He asked me to smuggled him out of the castle to spent sometime in privacy with Sidney


    37. It appeared that the drugs were not just being smuggled from the UK to Jo’burg but also from Jo’burg to the UK…and mainly drugs that had originated from the Mexican Sinaloa Cartel and Afghanistan…


    38. The Maputo Branch of Ubisi Dairies would have to be placed under observation to determine exactly how the Drug consignment was actually being smuggled into Maputo


    39. He had also been landed with the additional responsibility of setting-up the new drug laboratories and equipment smuggled into South Africa which would help increase sales throughout the Continent of Africa


    40. "They rode to the frontier which the heathen Picts assail – thanks to the strong liquor which I've smuggled over the borders to madden them

    41. Their families have been smuggled out of Berlin through Switzerland and are waiting at the new destination


    42. A volley of crossbow quarrels routed the mob, and a charge of horsemen littered the market with bodies, but Athemides was smuggled out of the city to plead with Trocero to retake Tamar, and march to aid Shamar


    43. Coastguard found it stuffed full of Mexicans being smuggled into the States


    44. you’ve just smuggled into the country


    45. We smoked a few ciga"s that we had smuggled on to the truck and had a laugh at the whole saga


    46. He was smuggled out and raised by a kitchen maid as her son


    47. between eight and half past, the Koreans had been smuggled into the plant shortly


    48. “The container smuggled us to the moon


    49. This item or items comes in through Harwich docks in a container, but whatever it is can be fitted into a locker, which suggests to me it’s something smuggled in


    50. “Let’s celebrate!” Gulab jumped with joy holding a bottle of whiskey that she’s smuggled out of the club





































    1. The risk becomes worth it, when I consider him walking the streets, and realize the only way for me to see that this animal get the punishment he deserves is to prove that he smuggles cocaine


    2. I am part of an international gang which smuggles marzipan to Turkmenistan, where it is illegal


    1. 'As I say, some time ago Pantelis got wind of what was going on and over a period of time he collected his evidence: names, numbers, times, photographs, dates, recordings; a comprehensive list of villains, including prominent public figures, involved one way or another in the smuggling and acquisition of priceless cultural objects


    2. behaviour, and to recognise the signs of attempted smuggling


    3. prevent smuggling, and the wagoners knew that they were being


    4. of malicious intent or smuggling


    5. Even this tax upon silver, too, gives more temptation to smuggling than the tax of one twentieth upon tin; and smuggling must be much easier in the precious than in the bulky commodity


    6. The value of the precious metals, however, must be lower in Spain and Portugal than in any other part of Europe, as they come from those countries to all other parts of Europe, loaded, not only with a freight and an insurance, but with the expense of smuggling, their exportation being either prohibited or subjected to a duty


    7. This expense would generally be all laid out in the country, in smuggling the money out of it, and could seldom occasion the exportation of a single sixpence beyond the precise sum drawn for


    8. You see, our Harley buddies back in the US gave us the idea to work together with one of their outposts in Georgia on smuggling immigrants from the US to Alataria


    9. Spain by taxing, and Portugal by prohibiting, the exportation of gold and silver, load that exportation with the expense of smuggling, and raise the value of those metals in other countries so much more above what it is in their own, by the whole amount of this expense


    10. When the tax upon a commodity is so moderate as not to encourage smuggling, the merchant who deals in it, though he advances, does not properly pay the tax, as he gets it back in the price of the commodity

    11. The great distance, too, from the mother country, would enable the colonists to evade more or less, by smuggling, the monopoly which the company enjoyed against them


    12. The expense of the ordinary peace establishment of the colonies amounted, before the commencement of the present disturbances to the pay of twenty regiments of foot ; to the expense of the artillery, stores, and extraordinary provisions, with which it was necessary to supply them ; and to the expense of a very considerable naval force, which was constantly kept up, in order to guard from the smuggling vessels of other nations, the immense coast of North America, and that of our West Indian islands


    13. The great difference between the price in the home and that in the foreign market, presents such a temptation to smuggling, that all the rigour of the law cannot prevent it


    14. This enormous duty presented such a temptation to smuggling, that great quantities of this commodity were clandestinely exported, probably to all the manufacturing countries of Europe, but particularly to Holland, not only from Great Britain, but from Afrira


    15. An injudicious tax offers a great temptation to smuggling


    16. But the penalties of smuggling must arise in proportion to the temptation


    17. This prohibition has, in some cases, entirely prevented, and in others has very much diminished, the importation of those commodities, by reducing the importers to the necessity of smuggling


    18. The high duties which have been imposed upon the importation of many different sorts of foreign goods in order to discourage their consumption in Great Britain, have, in many cases, served only to encourage smuggling, and, in all cases, have reduced the revenues of the customs below what more moderate duties would have afforded


    19. The bounties which are sometimes given upon the exportation of home produce and manufactures, and the drawbacks which are paid upon the re-exportation of the greater part of foreign goods, have given occasion to many frauds, and to a species of smuggling, more destructive of the public revenue than any other


    20. When the diminution of revenue is the effect of the encouragement given to smuggling, it may, perhaps, be remedied in two ways; either by diminishing the temptation to smuggle, or by increasing the difficulty of smuggling

    21. The temptation to smuggle can be diminished only by the lowering of the tax ; and the difficulty of smuggling can be increased only by establishing that system of administration which is most proper for preventing it


    22. If, by such a system of administration, smuggling to any considerable extent could be prevented, even under pretty high duties ; and if every duty was occasionally either heightened or lowered according as it was most likely, either the one way or the other, to afford the greatest revenue to the state; taxation being always employed as an instrument of revenue, and never of monopoly ; it seems not improbable that a revenue, at least equal to the present neat revenue of the customs, might be drawn from duties upon the importation of only a few sorts of goods of the most general use and consumption ; and that the duties of customs might thus be brought to the same degree of simplicity, certainty, and precision, as those of excise


    23. Faction, combined with the interest of smuggling merchants, raised so violent, though so unjust a clamour, against that bill, that the minister thought proper to drop it ; and, from a dread of exciting a clamour of the same kind, none of his successors have dared to resume the project


    24. Thirdly, the hope of evading such taxes by smuggling, gives frequent occasion to forfeitures and other penalties, which entirely ruin the smuggler ; a person who, though no doubt highly blameable for violating the laws of his country, is frequently incapable of violating those of natural justice, and would have been, in every respect


    25. Not many people are scrupulous about smuggling, when, without perjury, they can find an easy and safe opportunity of doing so


    26. This observation, however, may very probably be the mere suggestion of fraudulent dealers, whose smuggling is either prevented or detected by their diligence


    27. The smuggling of salt and tobacco sends every year several hundred people to the galleys, besides a very considerable number whom it sends to the gibbet


    28. In a poor country, the consumption of the principal commodities subject to the duties of customs and excise, is very small; and in a thinly inhabited country, the opportunities of smuggling are very great


    29. In these particular branches of the excise, there is not, I apprehend, much more smuggling in the one country than in the other


    30. The duties upon the distillery, and the greater part of the duties of customs, in proportion to the numbers of people in the respective countries, produce less in Scotland than in England, not only on account of the smaller consumption of the taxed commodities, but of the much greater facility of smuggling

    31. In Ireland, therefore, the consumption of the taxed commodities might, in proportion to the number of the people, be still less than in Scotland, and the facility of smuggling nearly the same


    32. The opportunities of smuggling, indeed, would be much greater ; America, in proportion to the extent of the country, being much more thinly inhabited than either Scotland or Ireland


    33. If the revenue, however, which is at present raised by the different duties upon malt and malt liquors, were to be levied by a single duty upon malt, the opportunity of smuggling in the most important branch of the excise would be almost entirely taken away ; and if the duties of customs, instead of being imposed upon almost all the different articles of importation, were confined to a few of the most general use and consumption, and if the levying of those duties were subjected to the excise laws, the opportunity of smuggling, though not so entirely taken away, would be very much diminished


    34. “Old smuggling tunnels,” she confided


    35. The insurance industry got its start from insuring slave ships and slaves, especially from losses where the ships' crews forced to dump slaves overboard if caught smuggling slaves after the overseas trade had been banned


    36. There were other interests that involved her deeply, even on an emotional level, any of which she would rather devote her time than international drug smuggling


    37. Can’t you understand that she would have told you anything for you to stop hurting her? For this fantasy to be true, Gordon himself would have to be mixed up in a major smuggling ring


    38. Sylvia was certain the police knew the man they’d arrested was not, as he maintained, smuggling cocaine for the first time or acting entirely on his own, but he’d been unshakable through hours of rigorous interrogation


    39. She and Sal talked one entire night, considering one smuggling scheme after the other, but in each, they found insurmountable shortcomings


    40. This had been true during the war, with much smuggling going on and all the corruption that entails

    41. But, Alfredo cutting open the gut and fishing about inside could only mean one thing: smuggling and a ruptured bag of cocaine was way more than enough to kill a horse


    42. Edgar had far too little respect for Michael to consider him capable of putting together a cocaine smuggling ring other than maybe the most basic, consisting of nothing more than using his friends, who visited him regularly, as mules


    43. Henderson’s smuggling activities had been going on for some time before he began dating Ms


    44. What was really bad, Truman contended, was that any direction the police investigation went, whether it was strictly the murder, the laundering connection via the checks or drug smuggling, Beth could easily be considered by the police to be an important witness, something she dreaded, particularly knowing that one of the investigating officers was Enrique Segovia, the cocaine-selling cop that coincidentally Truman had learned of that same day in prison


    45. He wasn’t a professional, just an underpaid driver manipulated into smuggling cocaine across the Costa Rica - Panama border


    46. “You’re saying that this man Kevin only hinted that Mike might be smuggling cocaine with these horses?”


    47. I’m sure you can see that I have you cold on cocaine smuggling and money laundering


    48. He kept on with his story, saying that he had information which could prove that a high ranking member of Costa Rica’s political establishment operated a large-scale cocaine smuggling ring


    49. Michael accepted! He began by giving everything Edgar had hoped for in the first place: a signed confession to smuggling cocaine


    50. Truman, like it or not, smuggling drugs is very bad for society and, even if you don’t see it that way, it is still a serious crime














































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    import or export without paying customs duties