45 examples of shiploads in sentences

I wish you had ten shiploads of it instead of one.

You might have ten shiploads; I've told Madame Esmond so; I've rode over her plantation; she treats me like a lord when I go to the house.

" Sir William Scott is no less precise: "The transportation of two or three shiploads of ammunition is necessarily a limited assistance; but, by despatches, the whole plan of the campaign may be transmitted in such a manner as to destroy all the plans of the other belligerent in that part of the world."

On the 17th of December, 1773, three shiploads of tea were destroyed in Boston harbor by a number of men dressed as Indians.

Not only were the Crusaders helped by the fleets of the maritime republics of Italy, they also received reinforcements by sea from western Europe and England, on the 'arrival of MalikAnkiltar (Richard Coeur de Lion) with twenty shiploads of fighting men and munitions of war.'

Turn a few shiploads of Polish Jews upon any of these districts, and they will and must in the struggle for life destroy the whole of this.

There can, however, be little doubt that if a few shiploads of Chinese labourers were emptied into the wharves of East London, whatever Government chanced to be in power would be compelled to adopt immediate measures of restraint on immigration, so terrible would the effect be upon the low class European labourers in our midst.

Three shiploads of tea were sent to Boston.

And nations to nations send good news: a race of slaves is set free; a war has ended; shiploads of grain have been sent to the starving; a good man has been made ruler; these are good tidingsgospels.

Shiploads of Indian corn had been landed, and public works for the help of the destitute established up and down the country.

III.Hereward in England Having settled his affairs in Flanders, in due time he landed once more in the Wash with Torfrida and the child and two shiploads of stout fighters, with whom he went through Fenland raising an army.

Every spring, whole shiploads of Chinese boys, from ten to fifteen years old, come over here.

Others are coming in shiploads as fast as they can.

"To continue my history of the tomb of Julius, I say that when he changed his mind about building it in his lifetime, some shiploads of marble came to the Ripa, which I had ordered a short while before from Carrara, and as I could not get money from the Pope to pay the freightage, I had to borrow 150 or 200 ducats from Baldassare Balduccithat is, from the bank of Jacopo Gallo.

He was the Mormon leader, you know, and brought a shipload of his followers to establish a settlement in forty-six.

At least he admitted that the port of Zeebrugge was positively congested with shiploads of the stuff.

Russia was sending shiploads of corn, and English charity was, as it always is, large, but the retention of the refugees permanently was impossible, even with foreign aid.

It is not more than a hundred and fifty yearsperhaps not so longsince it was a great curiosity; so that a piece half an inch square would sell in London for nearly a dollar of our money, but now it comes in shiploads, and a pound of it costs less than quarter of that sum.

Its object was to punish Paris, son of the King of Troy, for eloping with Helen, the wife of Menelaus, King of Sparta, and taking away a shipload of treasures to boot.

They are bringing them to England and America in shiploads, to such extent and variety, that nearly all the dead languages and many of the living are ransacked to furnish names for them.

Some thousand shiploads of chronometers were distributed to the selectmen and other great folks of all the different nations.

In 1720, Robert Temple from Cork brought to Maine five shiploads of people, mostly from the province of Munster.

You and my father made the valley what it is; your shiploads of hides and tallow that you sent from Yerba Buena made the town prosper, and called adventurers this way; and now they steal your cattle and lands, and their government is the biggest thief of all, for it tells them to steal more.

The greedy nobles and landed gentry, who grabbed the ancient foundations of the old religion, cared nothing for the books they found cumbering the walls, and either devoted them to vile domestic uses or sold them in shiploads across the seas.

The soldiers, some of whom are ten thousand miles from home, should have shiploads of letters and papers.

45 examples of  shiploads  in sentences