1146 examples of freight in sentences

I'd give 'em Yellowstone National Park for a freight sidin' if 'twas any use to 'em,' he says.

Great heaps of coal and wood were stacked behind tall planks, and alongside black, sooty docks lay bulky freight steamers; but over all was spread a shimmering, transparent mist, which made everything appear so big and strong and wonderful that it was almost beautiful.

The wild geese flew past factories and freight steamers and were nearing the cloud-enveloped spires.

You would see men in the two uniforms hobnobbing in the open freight-cars as the work-trains rolled up the line, and sometimes a score or so of husky Russians working in the wheat, guarded by some miniature, lone, Landsturm man.

A train arrives, hundreds of tons of freight which normally would roll across the river in a few puffs of a cigarette.

We swung past a freight yard littered with over-turned cars, through a tangle of wagonsarmy wagons pushing one way and distracted peasants the otherover a pontoon across the narrow Bug and on into the town.

All these difficulties might be avoided if, consistently with the good faith of Nicaragua, the use of this transit could be thrown open to general competition, providing at the same time for the payment of a reasonable rate to the Nicaraguan Government on passengers and freight.

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

Sir, it is but one or two years since I saw standing at the railroad depot, as I passed from my boarding house to this chamber, some large wagons and teams, as if waiting for freight; the cars had not then arrived.

The first lad having such a collection, I thought I would look at the others, to see if their baskets were similarly supplied; I found them all alike without exception, I then became curious to know if these debauched little urchins found any purchasers, and, to ascertain the fact, I ensconced myself among some of the freight, and watched one of them.

"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.

Above the natural load-line they flam out like the rim of a washing-basin, so as to give breadth for the superstructure; on the deck is placed the engine and appurtenances, fuel, &c.; whatever is not so occupied is for freight.

A wife and three children, buried beneath piles of freight, had found a wretched grave; his heart and his reason had fled after themnever, apparently, to return.

There is no clear portion of deck for them, and they are driven by necessity among the bales and boxes of freight, with no avenue of escape in case of accident.

Bob worked at the docks, handling freight.

He knew every port in the world, every highway of traffic, and he would be able to find the places where, lacking transportation facilities, they paid the highest freight rates.

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.

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.

As a navigator Ulysses had been most enthusiastic upon beholding its high and sharp prow disposed to confront the worst seas, the slenderness of the swift craft, its machinery, excessively powerful for a freight steamer,all the conditions that had made it a mail packet for so many years.

Each time the freight boats were more numerous and the transportation rates cheaper.

Ulysses with his elegant Mare Nostrum could not compete with the southern captains, drunken and taciturn, eager to accept freight at any price in order to fill their miserable transports crawling across the ocean at the speed of a tortoise.

They would no longer have to plead for freight from port to port as though begging alms.

The price of freight leaped from thirteen shillings a ton to fifty, then to seventy, and a few days later to a hundred.

Valuable freight was waiting for him in Marseilles and Barcelona, but, wishing to tranquillize himself and to pacify his mate, he would say repeatedly: "England will indemnify us....

On the tracks in front of the station dozens of flat cars and freight trains had been purposely run together.

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