Cargo

Examples

• Then our comrade, always a shrewd businessman, offered to take the whole cargo at thirty days, but that little financial scheme was a failure. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• And he took the heiress's two hands--causing her to let fall her whole cargo of flowers--and seated her by him on the sofa. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• By the old hand method it required twenty-eight men, two days and two nights, to unload a cargo of 4,000,000 pounds. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Among the things she brought back--more as a curiosity than as an article of cargo--was a consignment of Chinese firecrackers. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• I had it from the stevedore who has been loading their cargo. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• What was our surprise, not long after we had gone into bivouac, to see the lost mule, cargo and owner coming up the ascent. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• In the case of cargo vessels, the owners are able to get into touch with them at any point of their voyage. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• I put my cows and sheep into my coat-pockets, and got on board with all my little cargo of provisions. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
• This new type of vessel, the Deutschland, was an undersea craft of 315 feet length and a gross tonnage of 701 tons, its cargo capacity being more than 1,000 tons. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• He and his cargo take up as much room as a carriage. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• This sea bottom, in localities near land, is abundantly sown with wrecks, old and new, and in many cases bearing permanently valuable cargoes, such as gold and coal. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• With sensitive accumulators of this character hydraulic machinery is much used on board ships for steering them, and for loading, discharging and storing cargoes. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Thus vessels laden with coal have been traced that had been many years under the water and deeply covered with sand and silt, and their cargoes brought to the surface. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• In the cargoes, therefore, of the greater part of European ships which sail to India, silver has generally been one of the most valuable articles. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Trade was stopped by the failure of the interchange of cargoes usual between us, and America, India, Egypt and Greece. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• They were finally informed that their vessels and cargoes were prizes. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Eunuchs--None offering; however, large cargoes are expected from Egypt today. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• He threw them open, and behold, the cargoes of crude bullion of the assay offices of Nevada faded out of my memory. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• Many ships were sunk and many lives, with cargoes of great value, were lost, and it was not until the summer of 1916 that the submarine appeared in a new r?le, that of a commerce carrier. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• To-day every ocean liner is equipped with its own cold storage and ice-making plant, refrigerator cars transport vast cargoes of meats, fish, etc. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.

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