What is "soper"

Usage examples of "soper".

Miles Soper, though he was perfectly uneducated, and could neither read nor write.

Miles Soper had got thus far in his history I was summoned on deck, and eager as I was to hear how he and Jack had fared, I was obliged to attend to my duty.

I got Miles Soper to describe him minutely, and the missionary kindly promised to make inquiries for him.

Brown, Ringold, Soper, Jim, and me, the crew rushed forward to secure the fore-topmast stay.

Griffiths kindly let me take one of the boats, with Jim, and Soper, and Coal as a crew, and we visited every ship in the harbour, that I might make inquiries for Jack.

His boat was the first up, and in a short time Soper put two irons into the whale, which almost instantly turned over on its back, threw its lower jaw open, and nipped her clean in two.

Griffiths, the doctor, Horner, Jim and I, Brown and Miles Soper and Coal, with two other men, went.

Miles Soper and Coal undertook to swim on shore with baskets and catch some crabs, for which the fish in these seas seem to have a special fondness.

I could not get the idea out of my head, and longed for morning, that I might set off and make a tour round the island with Jim, who, I knew, would be ready to come with me, as would Miles Soper and some of the others.

No one proposed going to Japan, and the doctor and Miles Soper wished to steer for Guam.

Miles Soper, Sam Coal, and Jim were the best climbers, but without assistance, weak as we all were, they found that they could not swarm up the trees.

Miles Soper and Sam Coal again climbed the trees to get some cocoanuts.

Miles Soper examined the matting, and as he was looking about he found a knife on a shelf close to the bed.

I, however, believed that it must be Jack, and, notwithstanding the doubts that Soper had expressed, begged that I might be allowed to remain behind that I might the sooner meet him.

I thought that Soper was more likely to bring him back to the hut than to follow the rest of the party.