The deck-loads of vegetables at Balaklava, thrown overboard because they were rotten before they were drawn, were not the only stores wasted for want of being asked for.

De load is often twice der size, And smilin' is der biggest prize.

This morning the main loads were fodder.

'The axle; and the wheel is the prop, the load is the weight, and the power is your hand.'

Bowed slightly under the weight, the man passed within twenty feet of her, so close that she could see the sweat-beads glisten on that side of his face, and saw also that the load he carried was the carcass of a deer.

Thou hast, indeed, been a victim of their hellish duplicity, and well mayest thou say, the load was past bearing.

Mr. Hamilton looked on them both with extreme emotion; his mind's eye rapidly glanced over the past, and in an instant he saw what a heavy load of suffering must have been his niece's portion from the first moment she awoke to the consciousness of her ill-fated love; and how had she borne it?

And this load is food for a whole brigade alone for half a day; so you may see how necessary it is that this valuable cargo arrives in time.

[40] A camel-load is about five cantars, and a cantar is a hundred weight.