CHAPTER XI THE START Rain was falling and the light had hardly reached the opening between the tall warehouses.

The prisoners were crowded like cattle in the immense warehouse in squads of a hundred or more.

But...." He glanced around the dingy warehouse.

A pain shot through her breast, but she carried her part of the dead weight, saying nothing, and, at high noon, pushed her jingling, jangling cart through streets sharply outlined with sunlight and shadow to a dilapidated brick warehouse that, long since, had taken the place of Grit's junk-yard.

He discovered before the end of the first day that he had never yet guessed what "hardware" meant; he wandered through the mazes of the vast warehouses until his legs ached much and his eyes ached more.

His mind is, in fact, a great spacious and roomy warehouse, where things are kept dry and in excellent order.

They had also extensive warehouses, built in secure and secluded places, where they stored their plunder.

Successful salesmanship: Majestic warehouse; The Bank of England; and 8 others.

Elegy in a theatrical warehouse.

The banks of the river are lined for a long distance with mammoth warehouses and the anchorage is crowded with steamers from all parts of the world.

Gex soon became the picturesque warehouse of every conceivable kind of contraband goods.

But her place of residence, and where she has her principal warehouse, is at Depford, for the opportunity of getting her goods on shore.

Is no warehouse satisfied with what it has?

Glidden's place of confinement was a square warehouse, near the edge of town.

He had nearly reached it, when torchlight flared behind him, rushing in, and savage cries, both shrill and guttural, rang through the stuffy warehouse.

Sloping coral sands, where Arab dhows have beached themselves for ages past, are now supporting the newest and most modern of tropical warehouses and wharves, electric cranes, travelling cargo-carriers and a well-planned railway goods yard that takes the freights of Hamburg to the heart of Central Africa.

" The two friends rode to a corner, turned into Poydras Street, crossed Magazine and Tchoupitoulas and presently, out from among the echoing fronts of unlighted warehouses, issued upon the wide, white Levee.

We had already bought the beginnings of our furnishing, and had them stored in an unused warehouse at the back of her father's premises; with Mr. Gilverthwaite's bank-note, lying there snugly in waiting for me, we should be able to make considerable additions to our stock, and the wedding-day would come nearer.

After the death of his father he was taken by his uncle and employed in his wholesale warehouse in the city of London.

Lace now seems to lead the way, and there are whole streets of factories and warehouses busy with its manufacture and sale.

He asked "How?" "Because the jail was burned down," said Kansas; "you know we had to put him in yore warehouse, Judge, as the next strongest place, and they dug him out.

There was a great barn and stables, a capacious warehouse, out-buildings of all sorts, corn houses, hayricks, and a building for wheat, while nearby was a shed full of modern agricultural machinery.

Let proper officers be appointed to collect these skins into commodious warehouses.

Around three sides of the dock formed by walls, said to be fifty feet in depth and twenty in thickness, ran a road close to the water's edge, beyond which was again a vast continuous warehouse.

The day after his memorable rebuff, he was sitting in the choky little counting-room of a crammed commission-warehouse in India Street, musing and mousing over the various schemes that occurred to his fertile brain for increasing the profits of his business.