Warehouses

Examples

• Warehouses were lightened, ships were laden; work abounded, wages rose; the good time seemed come. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• And tell my dear Lydia not to give any directions about her clothes till she has seen me, for she does not know which are the best warehouses. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• But Rome never produced a very considerable industrial population, and her warehouses never rivalled those of Alexandria. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Otis, an American, invented and patented in America and England in 1859 the first approach to the modern passenger elevator for hotels, warehouses, and other structures. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• To-day her piers are deserted, her warehouses are empty, her merchant fleets are vanished, her armies and her navies are but memories. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• Their warehouses were the great distributing depots from whence the costly merchandise of the East was sent abroad over Europe. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• The closed warehouses and offices have an air of death about them, and the national dread of colour has an air of mourning. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• My brother Sheva, he said, groaning deeply, hath the key of my warehouses. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• A rich man there lived alone in one of the immense mansions which were formerly both dwellings and warehouses. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• As a mere child the busy scenes of the canal and the grain warehouses were of consuming interest, but the work in the ship-building yards had an irresistible fascination. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• They are, however, the principal ones; and there may not, perhaps, be warehouses proper for this purpose in the greater part of the others. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.

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