The Leman was never more peaceable, and I should take it truly in evil part, were the rebellious lake to get into one of its fits of sudden anger with so precious a freight on its bosom.

His romantic love for the sea and its adventures was now overshadowed by the price and consumption of coal, by the maddening competition that lowered freight rates, and by the search for new ports with fast and remunerative freight.

yearly.[BB] Such is a short epitome of a canal through which, when the Sault St. Marie Channel between Lakes Superior and Huron is completed, an unbroken watery highway will bear the rich produce of the West from beyond the 90° meridian of longitude to the Atlantic Ocean.[BC] Although the Erie is perhaps the canal which bears the most valuable freight, it is by no means the greatest undertaking of the kind in the Union.

Beyond all doubt they regarded me as perishable freight; so I hardly saw any of the fighting.

Could mortal lip divine The undeveloped freight Of a delivered syllable, 'T would crumble with the weight.

How little freight was to be seen except what lay vainly begging for exportsugar, molasses, rice; not even much cotton; it had gone to the yards and presses.

" "Are you sending them by the electric freight?

No vessel ever yet tried that pass without being lost, but the Argo, which owed her safety to the sacred freight she bore, the fleece of the golden-backed ram, which could not perish.

He waited in ghastly suspense till they rowed home with their slow freight.

One had no sooner received its melancholy freight, than it left the islets, on its way to the hospital-ship of the fleet.

The main economic claim made in the home-market argument is that the shipping of food to Europe and the importing of manufactures involve a great cost for double freights which could be saved by manufacturing at home.

The fast steamers will have to pay war rates of insurance and to charge extra freights.

It was possible in Italy for long periods of time to obtain most favourable freights and have coal at almost the same price as in England.

If in a convent some beautiful novices had just made their profession, the doors would give away at midnight under the hatchet-blows of the bearded demons who were advancing inland from the galleys prepared to receive their cargo of feminine freight.

These foure ships hauing receiued their ful freight, and giuen notice on land of their departure (to the end that none of their creditours might bee vnpaid) and also having well prouided themselues of rice and water, departed the thirteenth of Ianuary 1599.

It was the executioner's red hearse with its ghastly freight from the Place de la Révolution.

Oh, say! Let me not burst in ignorancethy freight.

The Mermaid had brought over a light freight of wood from Betto's group, and had discharged at the crater.

"Too good to last long," thought I. The penny trumpet sounds, and off we gonot on our journey, but all over the town to the different hotels, to pick up live freight.

Those belonging to the merchants, that is, ships and brigs of a certain size, have already begun to frequent the ports of China, Java, the coast of Coromandel, Bengal, and the Isle of France, availing themselves of the lucrative freights which formerly enriched and encouraged foreign shipping.

The merchandise is exchanged for slaves, the vessel is delivered up, her name obliterated, her papers destroyed, her American crew discharged, to be provided for by the charterers, and the new or passenger crew put in command to carry back its miserable freight to the first contrivers of the voyage, or their employees in Brazil.

of instruments, ammunition, pemmican, aleuronate bread; Mew followed, his sledge containing provisions only; and last came I, with a mixed freight.

One of the machines was like a great wheel, with four cars attached, which mounted and descended with their motley freight.

And finally, that he was now at Selwoode was not in the least his fault, but all the doing of an N. & O. brakesman, who had in uncultured argument, reinforced by a coupling-pin, persuaded Mr. Flinks to disembark from the northern freight on the night previous.

You cannot embark care in your wherry; there is no room for the odious freight.