Barges

Examples

• His luck's got fouled under the keels of the barges. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• The latter was encumbered with barges of coal in tow, and consequently could make but little speed against the rapid current of the Mississippi. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• There were a few lighters and barges, but none of the great merchantmen such as ply the upper air between the cities of the outer world. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• There were some boats and barges astrand in the mud, and these enabled us to come within a few yards of her without being seen. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• They took twelve barges in tow, loaded also with rations. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• And what's more,--the boat's drove tight by the tide 'atwixt two tiers of barges. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Two large barges of kerosene were sent into the tunnel, and an air pipe connected to them. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• One small steamer and some barges were got through this channel, but no further use could be made of it because of the fall in the river. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• The pipe is lowered into contact with the bottom to be excavated and the material is pumped into hopper barges or into a hopper-well in the dredge itself. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Five barges of clay had been dumped in the river over this point to make a roof for the tunnel, but the fluid clay could not be controlled, and crept through the doors of the shield. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• About half the barges got through with their needed freight. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Before this I had been collecting, from St. Louis and Chicago, yawls and barges to be used as ferries when we got below. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Some of the steamers that had got below were injured in their machinery, so that they were only useful as barges towed by those less severely injured. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• The loss of two steamers and six barges reduced our transportation so that only 10,000 men could be moved by water. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• The burning mass, however, floated down to Carthage before grounding, as did also one of the barges in tow. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• The very fire that warmed you when you were a babby, was picked out of the river alongside the coal barges. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Accordingly, on the morning of the 29th, McClernand was directed to embark all the troops from his corps that our transports and barges could carry. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.

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