Then all of his possessions had been stowed in a long, bolster-like canvas bag for the short voyage.

They carried supplies which, having been brought by the military railway from the Suez Canal to railhead, were conveyed by motor lorries as far as the state of the road permitted self-propelled vehicles to run, were next transhipped into limbers, and, when horse transport could proceed no farther, were stowed on to the backs of camels.

It was a custom of Five Towns hospitality that a departing guest should be accompanied as far as Knype and stowed with personal attentions into the big train.

Baggage of every kind was slung across the backs of horses, or stowed into cumbrous two-wheeled waggons made of rough planks, or of laths covered with twisted osiers, which had been seized from farmer or peasant for the king's journey.

Unfortunately we could not clear the line for the trawlit is stowed under the fodder.

The young man remained on deck to superintend the stowing of the scientific goods and the personal baggage.

Then, in each boat, we mounted the whalebackwhich had been stowed along the tops of the thwartsalso its supports, lashing the same to the thwarts below the knees.

The Glasgow Committee, with Mr. Stow at their head, deserve the thanks of the whole community for having applied the principles on which the Infant School System is based, to juveniles, and carried out and proved the practicability of it for the public good.

"The tories, stowed like sheep in the little hut, soon began to drink, and, as they did so, became very valorous and boastful.

After this, I served in his Majesty's fleet a whole war, and got as much honour as I could stow beneath hatches.

Everything was in working trim, even to the concussor, stowed out of sight, but within easy reach, in its narrow basket.

(Engraved by James Stow from an original drawing by S.D. Koster.)

she inquired, when the last of the stuff was stowed aboard the little steamer.

It is one thing to watch the game from the grand stand or side-lines and another to have an awkward, wobbly, elusive spheroid tossed to the ground a few feet from you and be required to straightway throw yourself upon it in such manner that when it stops rolling it will be snugly stowed between you and the ground.