Cargoes

Examples

• 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.
• Our guards--two gorgeous young Arab sheiks, with cargoes of swords, guns, pistols and daggers on board--were loafing ahead. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.

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