laying-up

Steamships first started to use the City Canal for laying-up, repairs and fitting-out from the end of 1814 with the arrival of “Margery”, a ship built on the Clyde that was to operate the first passenger service on the Thames from Wapping to Gravesend for a few months before she was sold and crossed the Channel to undertake similar duties on the Seine.

Early Steam Ships and the City Canal M 2008

Steamships first started to use the City Canal for laying-up, repairs and fitting-out from the end of 1814 with the arrival of “Margery”, a ship built on the Clyde that was to operate the first passenger service on the Thames from Wapping to Gravesend for a few months before she was sold and crossed the Channel to undertake similar duties on the Seine.

Archive 2008-07-01 M 2008

His motives, no doubt, were unworldly enough at first; a mere repaying to his account in the Recording Angel's book of the generosity which had been lavished on himself; a laying-up of treasure in heaven.

The Red House Mystery 1919

-- Perkins, I've got to go uptown for an hour; see if you can't pick up freight to pay laying-up expenses somehow.

Romance of California Life John Habberton 1881

How editors can continue this tremendous labor, this exhausting consumption of brain fibre (for their work is creative, and not a mere mechanical laying-up of facts, like reporting), day after day and year after year, is incomprehensible.

Roughing It Mark Twain 1872

How editors can continue this tremendous labor, this exhausting consumption of brain fibre (for their work is creative, and not a mere mechanical laying-up of facts, like reporting), day after day and year after year, is incomprehensible.

Roughing It, Part 6. Mark Twain 1872

How editors can continue this tremendous labor, this exhausting consumption of brain fibre (for their work is creative, and not a mere mechanical laying-up of facts, like reporting), day after day and year after year, is incomprehensible.

Roughing It 1871

In this second use, currency is the exponent of accumulation: it renders the laying-up of store at the command of individuals unlimitedly possible; -- whereas, but for its intervention, all gathering would be confined within certain limits by the bulk of property, or by its decay, or the difficulty of its guardianship.

The Crown of Wild Olive also Munera Pulveris; Pre-Raphaelitism; Aratra Pentelici; The Ethics of the Dust; Fiction, Fair and Foul; The Elements of Drawing John Ruskin 1859

On November 23, a ceremonial parade was held at the Military Wing for laying-up the King's Colours of Indian Regiments, in which JSW cadets also took part.

unknown title 2009

On November 23, a ceremonial parade was held at the Military Wing for laying-up the King's Colours of Indian Regiments, in which JSW cadets also took part.

unknown title 2009