1 At one end a ruminating tar was still further adorning it with his jack-knife, stooping over and diligently working away at the space between his legs.
2 For nowadays, the whale-fishery furnishes an asylum for many romantic, melancholy, and absent-minded young men, disgusted with the carking cares of earth, and seeking sentiment in tar and blubber.
3 This plan worked well; the slaves became as fearful of tar as of the lash.
4 They seemed to realize the impossibility of touching tar without being defiled.
5 I'll engage there's no Tar in that: so, the sergeant thanked him and said that as he preferred his drink without tar, he would take wine, if it was equally convenient.
6 I had in vain tried everything producible that began with a T, from tar to toast and tub.
7 "Father, Finogen wants some tar," said the young woman in the clogs, coming in.
8 I that was Aurora Borealis am shrunk to a tar barrel.
9 He wore an open jacket, with a splotch of tar on the sleeve, a red-and-black check shirt, dungaree trousers, and heavy boots badly worn.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In V. The Adventure of The "Gloria Scott" 10 Ole missis she'd take an tar de head off'n me.
11 They were hungry, and the smell of the roasted kid was very savory, and your tars are not very ceremonious.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In Chapter 23. The Island of Monte Cristo. 12 The Portuguese held his tongue like a brick, and walked the plank, while the jolly tars cheered like mad.
13 Now and then he stooped to pick up a patch, or save an end of tarred twine, which otherwise might have been wasted.
14 The Commandments were written on the tarred wall in great white letters that could be read thirty yards away.