waggon-load

In one of the Custom-house warehouses were piled a quantity of things that had to go on board: no less than 400 bundles of dried fish, all our ski and sledging outfit, a waggon-load of timber, etc.

The South Pole~ On the Way to the South 2009

Periclymenus, son of the ocean-god, stayed his wild career, heaving on his head a waggon-load of stone, even the coping torn from the battlements; and it shattered his head with the hair and crashed through the sutures of the skull, dabbling with blood his cheek just showing manhood's flush; and never shall he go back alive to his fair archer-mother, the maid of

The Phoenissae 2008

Periclymenus, son of the ocean-god, stayed his wild career, heaving on his head a waggon-load of stone, even the coping torn from the battlements; and it shattered his head with the hair and crashed through the sutures of the skull, dabbling with blood his cheek just showing manhood's flush; and never shall he go back alive to his fair archer-mother, the maid of

The Phoenissae 2008

That odious Mr. Wapshot was with them; and I left him seeing the last waggon-load from the door.

The Great Hoggarty Diamond 2006

One morning a man who accompanied a waggon-load of potatoes gazed rather hard at the house-fronts as he passed, and with a curious emotion she thought his form was familiar to her.

Life's Little Ironies 2006

Given, then, our new polity, with its new waggon-load of laws, what headmarks must we look for in the life?

Lay Morals 2005

Mr and Mrs John Harmon had so timed their taking possession of their rightful name and their London house, that the event befel on the very day when the last waggon-load of the last Mound was driven out at the gates of

Our Mutual Friend 2004

In an hour, a waggon-load of bricks left Ouman, drawn by two sorry nags.

Taras Bulba 2003

In an hour, a waggon-load of bricks left Ouman, drawn by two sorry nags.

Taras Bulba and Other Tales 1952

The schools of herring attempting to ascend the river are here unable to overcome the swiftness of the current and are caught in large quantities by the rude seines and nets of the neighbouring fishermen, a waggon-load sometimes being caught in a few hours.

Neville Trueman, the Pioneer Preacher : a tale of the war of 1812