| 单词 | cartload |
| 例句 | “Can I swap your greatest fear for any one of mine? Take two of them. No, ten. Help yourself to a cartload. Please?” Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z We were arrived at the isle’s eastern shore; we unloaded cartloads from the stores. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z "A cartload of gold and jewels! The ruffians would have been content with a mere jingle of coins." The Whipping Boy 1986-04-01T00:00:00Z Sneaking into a cartload of cotton and leaping to the road outside New Orleans. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z “So you could be anyone,” Sarai had said when he told her about the cartload of orphans and not knowing his name. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z "Twenty-four cartloads… What is that, twenty thousand books?" The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z I’d see them drive past the cabin, all three of them sitting of top of a cartload of corn. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z The loss had to be made good, as had also the theft, despite the presence of a chowkidar, of a cartload of bricks and the cart itself. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z “There was a war. I was a baby. I ended up on a cartload of orphans. That’s all I know.” Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z Housewives were exhausted from sweeping away so many dead birds, especially at siesta time, and the men dumped them into the river by the cartload. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z Quinn is more bitter than before, thanks to her failed relationship in the second season, and now she’s never without a glass of vodka – “a cartload of vodka a week”. The return of UnReal: can the new season restore the show to former glory? 2018-02-26T05:00:00Z The “Don Quixote” number, however, is just a cartload of ballet clichés, most of which were certainly added long after Petipa’s death. Dance Review: Miami City Ballet in Liam Scarlett Work at Kravis Center 2013-01-28T23:05:18Z “My mind turns to regret,” she says, “an emotion that has lately found an endless quarry in me, my mind’s darkest tunnels bearing cartloads of salt for the wound.” Review | Amelia Gray captures the mind of Isadora Duncan, the mother of modern dance 2017-06-02T04:00:00Z So many cartloads of bones were dumped that the land is said to have risen high enough to support a windmill. Burial ground of Bunyan, Defoe and Blake earns protected status 2011-02-22T00:04:01Z “Wolf Hall,” a splendidly somber six-part “Masterpiece” series premiering Sunday on PBS, deserves the cartload of praise being heaped upon it — t’would be a shame if it gets lost in the usual Sunday-night TV gridlock. ‘Wolf Hall’: A somber, perfect take on that time the Tudors went tabloid 2015-04-03T04:00:00Z The object, Pliska said, isn’t to produce cartloads of fresh vegetables, but to demonstrate to himself that these antique varieties can still be grown. A historian gets gardening inspiration from his subjects: U.S. presidents 2018-05-28T04:00:00Z The girls were wearing their usual cartload of makeup, heavy on the eyes, and yet it looked natural next to their minimal, slightly cheesy outfits and long, dark tresses. T Magazine: The Wild Bunch 2010-12-04T14:00:00Z While Victorian pomposity merchants were selling oily encumbrances by the cartload, Vincent van Gogh worked unknown, and unsold. Richard Hamilton's farewell, Frieze and Cotman paints France – the week in art 2012-10-05T13:37:48Z Amid the cartload of derivative steps and gestures in Anna’s final solo, there is no moment that looks singular to this character or to this ballet. Dance Review: Illicit Love and All Its Consequences 2011-07-12T22:55:57Z Bones of numerous martyrs were brought from Rome’s catacombs by the cartload to the Pantheon, where Masses are still celebrated, he said. A Restored Painting Recalls the Colosseum’s Christian Past 2022-06-12T04:00:00Z I have a cartload of stuff and I don’t want to use the self-checkout but I was forced to line up with all the people who only have one or two items. Rant and Rave: Reader grateful for post office worker 2022-04-29T04:00:00Z As the war wound down, instead of shuttling cartloads of notes around the streets, people exchanged cotton, bacon and salted pork for goods and services; their money was worthless. How to Fight Inflation in Wartime 2022-03-19T04:00:00Z On Thursday, the hashtag “northbound wild elephants’ buffet site” trended on Weibo, a popular social media platform in China, after residents in a village near Kunming prepared cartloads of corn stalks for them. 15 Chinese Elephants Are on a Long March North. Why, No One Knows. 2021-06-03T04:00:00Z Loveluck groundtruthed the model by scouring the English Pipe rolls, historic scrolls that record annual taxes paid by miners for cartloads of lead. Lead pollution in ancient ice cores may track the rise and fall of medieval kings 2020-03-30T04:00:00Z We watched as chief inspector Gereon Rath, holding on to his trilby hat, dashed down the stairs of a tenement block, elbowing everyone out of his way, including a cartload of chickens. Drugs, dancing, cabaret: Babylon Berlin returns for season three 2019-12-19T05:00:00Z Behind him stood three cartloads of legal filings from the decade-long case, and posters depicting Mr. Epstein’s lavish properties and dark S.U.V.s. Jeffrey Epstein Settles Lawsuit, Avoiding Testimony From Accusers in Sex Case 2018-12-04T05:00:00Z Burning a cartload or two of tally sticks in a coal-fired stove is a wonderful way to start a raging chimney fire. What tally sticks tell us about how money works - BBC News 2017-07-09T04:00:00Z She described buses that disgorge migrants, who push “overheaping cartloads” through the store’s aisles. One Ohio Town’s Immigration Clash, Down in the Actual Muck 2017-06-18T04:00:00Z On Monday, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitoring group said a missile killed seven people in the town’s newly reopened market, scattering bodies and limbs among cartloads of spoiled fruit. Samples from Syria’s deadly sarin attack bear Assad’s ‘signature,’ France says 2017-04-26T04:00:00Z I packed sunscreen and Neosporin, half chaps and a cartload of protein bars. Mongolia: The Destination that Epitomizes Getting Away From It All 2016-11-10T05:00:00Z Some of the scientists described sending cartloads and even trains full of fossils back to Peking for lab analysis. Meet 7 Celebrity Fossils and Find Out What Made Them Famous Buttoning up a couple cartloads of swings always makes for a good day, but 20 of the best teachers in the world made even more of an impact at a Memphis charity event this week. 20 Top teachers fixed a lot more than slices this week in Memphis: The Loop 2013-10-16T04:00:00Z Entrepreneurs toss cartloads of words at investors, and later at prospective customers. You Invented It, But Can You Explain It? 2015-04-06T04:00:00Z The loser on Thursday may have more hope than, say, a cartload of turkeys at Thanksgiving. It’s Only November, but 49ers and Seahawks Are Feeling the Pressure of Postseason Elimination 2014-11-26T05:00:00Z For the first several years of her tenure, she managed to prop up the stock by buying back shares by the cartload. The Truth Hidden by IBM’s Buybacks 2014-10-20T04:00:00Z One cartload of the enemy’s provisions is equivalent to twenty of one’s own, and likewise a single picul of his provender is equivalent to twenty from one’s own store. Sun Tzu's The Art of War, Illustrated (Chapter 2: Waging War) 2013-10-03T13:00:00Z Nowhere in the Gospels do we find a precept for Creeds, Confessions, Oaths, Doctrines, and whole cartloads of other foolish trumpery that we find in Christianity. Can North Carolina Declare an “Official” Religion? 2013-04-08T09:45:45Z About that time, authorities later learned, Barefoot bought a cartload of black powder and started making pipe bombs. Klan leader who plotted to murder North Carolina sheriff gets 15 years 2013-02-07T23:39:00Z The volumes from Booked Up would leave by the armful and by cartloads and in many cases by the carload. The Great Book Sale of Texas: Larry McMurtry Gives Up His Collection 2012-08-15T13:35:29Z But what it lacked in analytical nous, it made up for with cartloads of technicolour giddiness. Euro 2012: did CBBC have the best commentary? 2012-07-02T10:49:07Z Palaces, gardens and holy places were ransacked, with treasures taken off by the cartload. Op-Ed Contributor: Bankers at the Gates 2012-05-25T04:06:13Z This development was that, a week or so before, several cartloads of undressed stone had been shot down by the side of the sandy gully that ran from Pritchard's gap down to the shore. Mushroom Town 2012-04-21T02:00:25.923Z A few minutes before ten Tom Bland came with a cartload of plants from a nursery. The House 'Round the Corner 2012-04-14T02:00:22.063Z When you first came home you brought a cartload of books with you, red-hot upon studying Hindustan�e. Mildred Arkell, Volume II (of 3) A Novel 2012-04-06T02:00:29.933Z Cartmen charged wildly and exorbitantly—some having to pay as high as fifty dollars to have carted away a cartload of stuff. The Story of the Great Fire in St. John, N.B., June 20th, 1877 2012-03-27T02:00:21.067Z The news of Lodovico's advance threw consternation into the town, and when cartloads of provisions were brought in, and the fortifications worked at day and night, the brave citizens began to quake and tremble. The Making of a Saint 2012-03-16T02:00:25.243Z It still is used in the manufacture of proprietary medicines, and for this purpose is cut with a sickle in great armfuls and gathered in cartloads. Old-Time Gardens Newly Set Forth 2012-03-06T03:00:22.850Z Right here I want to say that since I have been studying through a cartload of miscellaneous medical journals, I have changed my opinion of the American Medical Association. Quacks and Grafters 2012-02-23T03:00:40.650Z Thirteen cartloads of pikes were delivered on the plain. My Lords of Strogue, Vol. II (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union 2012-02-15T03:00:26.817Z The Tammany captain was busy hauling his voters by the cartload to the polling place. A Ten Year War An Account of The Battle with The Slum in New York 2012-02-11T03:03:42.997Z On the other side of the Black Mountains I met a cartload of gypsies; they were in a dreadful rage and were abusing the country right and left. The Life of George Borrow 2012-01-26T03:00:14.707Z Its nest is often an enormous structure—quite a cartload of sticks. Wild Spain (Espa?a agreste) Records of Sport with Rifle, Rod, and Gun, Natural History Exploration 2011-12-05T03:00:38.980Z She laid all the dirt in a heap in the corner, and there was as much as a cartload. Memoirs of Leonora Christina Daughter of Christian IV. of Denmark; Written During Her Imprisonment in the Blue Tower at Copenhagen 1663-1685 2011-11-26T03:00:13.823Z That it would take six men, and planks, and cartloads of straw, to get her out. In Mr. Knox's Country 2011-11-21T03:00:16.010Z It heaped a foot of new sand on their roof and sent a cartload of it down the chimney. Maid of the Mist 2011-11-21T03:00:11.937Z Without exaggeration, I sent those I received by cartloads to the hospitals. Memoirs of an American Prima Donna 2011-11-17T03:00:32.600Z In the same way, from eleven cartloads of quaternary cakes thrice roasted, he makes the "final" cakes, of which one centumpondium contains only half an uncia of silver. De Re Metallica, Translated from the First Latin Edition of 1556 2011-11-16T03:00:21.977Z He had consulted a multitude of physicians, and had taken more than a cartload of medicine. The Marquis of Pe?alta (Marta y Mar?a) A Realistic Social Novel 2011-11-12T03:00:35.113Z There must have been other accomplices, for, according to the story, the bodies were kept until they formed a cartload, when they were heaped up, driven away to the Thames at Wraysbury and thrown in. The Bath Road History, Fashion, & Frivolity on an Old Highway 2011-11-06T02:00:11.073Z Others brought cartloads of provisions of every kind, some for the consumption of the troops on their journey, some to be forwarded to the different magazines. For Sceptre and Crown, Vol. I (of II) A Romance of the Present Time 2011-10-13T02:00:45.883Z When you wake up in the morning you find that during the night a cartload has been deposited in your front garden. Lady Barbarina The Siege of London, An International Episode and Other Tales 2011-10-06T02:00:37.063Z He began by dictating a short draft which, even in the case of such a cartload of apes and ivory as The Golden Bowl, might be no longer than thirty thousand words. Henry James 2011-09-05T02:00:22.877Z And who does not know that “a note taken on the spot is worth a cartload of recollections”? Talks to Freshman Girls 2011-09-04T02:00:03.470Z They hide away and peep out sometimes after several cartloads have been washed through the machine. Yankee Girls in Zulu Land 2011-08-31T02:01:39.710Z Before there was time to turn, Gabriel, the tenant, had brought several cartloads from your part of the country—he has made a fortune. Stories and Pictures 2011-08-30T02:00:28.080Z Some cartloads of small stones originally thrown down to make a firm floor to the drinking-place have in process of time become worn into sand, which the rain has washed into the water. Wild Life in a Southern County 2011-08-04T02:00:27.037Z It was nearly night when at length we dispatched the last cartload of effects, locked up the house, and got into the old carryall that had returned for us. The Haunted Homestead A Novel 2011-07-13T02:00:22.920Z There was a side of fresh beef, two carcases of mutton, and a small cartload of potatoes, cauliflowers, and onions. The Log of a Sea-Waif Being Recollections of the First Four Years of My Sea Life 2011-07-09T02:00:13.057Z When a front line trench of the enemy is captured, it is the faithful dogs who draw up the many cartloads of ammunition and supplies, and some of the smaller guns. Lest We Forget World War Stories 2011-07-07T02:00:28.183Z "Why shouldn't I look cheerful when I have been offered feasts of hot bar iron, frozen quicksilver, a dewdrop and a gnat's leg, and seven cartloads of mud?" laughed Knut. Top of the World Stories for Boys and Girls Translated from the Scandinavian Languages 2011-06-21T02:00:28.070Z Entertainment in abundance, information in cartloads, Keats could draw from the matter accumulated and glossed by Burton, but little or nothing to gladden or soothe or fortify him. Life of John Keats His Life and Poetry, his Friends, Critics and After-fame 2011-06-10T02:00:19.290Z Run and tell them a bucketful would make a difference now, but cartloads will make none in ten more minutes! Peccavi 2011-05-17T02:00:22.620Z There is a cartload of it inside me now. Cities of the Dawn 2011-05-13T02:00:10.047Z People bring it to you by the cartload. Abroad at Home American Ramblings, Observations, and Adventures of Julian Street 2011-04-27T02:00:23.800Z Take a fir-tree for a ladle and ladle into yourself seven cartloads of swamp mud. Top of the World Stories for Boys and Girls Translated from the Scandinavian Languages 2011-06-21T02:00:28.070Z You might collect a cartload in half a day. A Month in Yorkshire 2011-04-24T02:00:10.977Z Sure in any case it won’t be any great while standing there, you may depend, and they bedding cattle with it, let alone very belike sending in cartloads of it every week to the market. Humours of Irish Life 2011-04-19T02:00:16.057Z “They calls it harvest thanksgiving,” said another fisherman, “and I see pretty nigh a cartload o’ flowers, and wheat, and barley, and oats, go in. The Vicar's People 2011-02-25T03:01:16.160Z Hammer this old junk out flat, get the blacksmith to cut a few rods, a cartload of stones and a few barrowloads of clay, and there you are. The Tower of Oblivion 2010-12-20T17:11:53.787Z He was also the first custos of Ashmole’s Museum, which could not have been an easy office since “twelve cartloads of Trades cant’s rarities” arrived in Oxford to form its nucleus. Springtime and Other Essays By Heavens, Henry, when you return to your Pyrenees you will have to send me a whole cartload of bears. Marguerite de Valois I bought from a stone-yard a cartload of material, half of it broken flat paving-stone and half of it chunks, and I may add incidentally that I paid too much for it. The New Gulliver and Other Stories It is indeed a proverb, that “He that would know things ancient and modern, must peruse five cartloads of books.” Village Life in China A Study in Sociology The silver coin was so bulky that �200 of our money would be a hundredweight to carry, and �1,000 would be a cartload. The Book of Buried Treasure Being a True History of the Gold, Jewels, and Plate of Pirates, Galleons, etc., which are sought for to this day There is but slight beauty in violets by the ton, as I have seen them in Southern France, brought in cartloads to the perfume factories. A Top-Floor Idyl A citizen took in a cartload of peaches to-day, and upon order of Lieutenant Clark sold them to the boys. An Artilleryman's Diary A few years later he turned out of his garden three cartloads of stone-crop; that, I admit, was in the country. The New Gulliver and Other Stories David sung so many songs, that he sung two cartloads of wood into his house; therefore, he is called Klafter-David—but he does not like to be reminded of that name now-a-days. Joseph in the Snow, and The Clockmaker In Three Volumes. Vol. I. After some hours of delay at the water front, I returned to Mickie's Tavern with a cartload of impedimenta, including my own chest. A Volunteer with Pike The True Narrative of One Dr. John Robinson and of His Love for the Fair Señorita Vallois Procure not less than a cartload of clean, fresh stable manure. Student's Hand-book of Mushrooms of America, Edible and Poisonous The young man went out and came right back in with a little cartload of electric fans. Cue for Quiet Thus, while a mere master-shipwright may steal some cartloads of oak, a Lord of the Admiralty may pocket a whole seventy-four. Punch - Volume 25 (Jul-Dec 1853) A cartload of wood was sent to his place; papa Sournois converted it into money, and got drunk with the proceeds for a fortnight. An Englishman in Paris Notes and Recollections Jacques Cartier said Labrador was "the land God gave to Cain," and that there was "not one cartload of earth on the whole of it." Grenfell: Knight-Errant of the North Eight bundles of barley straw, equal to one pack-horse load, were mixed and tempered with nine cartloads of clay.” Cottage Building in Cob, Pisé, Chalk and Clay a Renaissance (2nd edition) The old man bustled round the cartload, taking in the value at a glance, and talking all the time. Ditte: Girl Alive! Then of a sudden came a booming sound, followed by a hoarse noise, as the crater filled with steam, out of which shot, some seventy-five feet in air, about a cartload of mud. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 26, July 1880. I wouldn’t give a dollar a cartload for them. Young Auctioneers The Polishing of a Rolling Stone At the Doctor’s death, his manuscripts, amounting to two cartloads, were scattered or sold for waste-paper, and this was one of the number. Calamities and Quarrels of Authors Three cartloads of clay built a perch and a half of wall 20 in. wide and 1 ft. deep. Cottage Building in Cob, Pisé, Chalk and Clay a Renaissance (2nd edition) Early next morning the pretty young wife from the Sand farm, could be seen driving through the hamlet seated on top of a swinging cartload of peat. Ditte: Girl Alive! In every ship also were 2 cartloads of earth, to throw over any inflammable substance which might have fallen on board. Before and after Waterloo Letters from Edward Stanley, sometime Bishop of Norwich (1802; 1814; 1816) What!" says I; "do they bring in fodder by the cartload for the creatures? Phemie Frost's Experiences His commissioner, one Tinet by name, had orders to ransack Perugia, and six cartloads of her treasured paintings, drawn by oxen, left the city for Paris. Perugino Most of us have seen cartloads of them in this condition landing at our city wharves. Due South or Cuba Past and Present The sort of "copy" which anti-suffrage papers demanded was supplied by them in cartloads and not at all by law-abiding suffragists, who were an immense majority of the whole. The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume VI It was Christmas again, and they were wending their way towards St Roque's to assist at the holiday decorations, for which cartloads of laurel and holly had been already deposited within the church. The Doctor's Family I also intended to purchase several cartloads of provisions, so that if a siege was attempted we could not be starved out. The O'Ruddy A Romance I had believed the ladies of Spain kinder to their cavaliers than to grudge a kiss for a cartload of stones at the head. The Spanish Jade After all, 'exageration' only substitutes the idea of mound, or agger for carica—the heaping up of a mound—for the common Italian word 'load' or 'cartload.' The Confessions of a Caricaturist, Vol. 1 While he was speaking we passed a cartload of yellow grapes that drenched us in jingle of mulebells and in dizzying sweetness of bubbling ferment. Rosinante to the Road Again On the side of the Black Mountains I met a cartload of real Gypsies. Letters to his mother, Ann Borrow and Other Correspondents Even the Slough of Despond could not be mended with all the cartloads of promises and texts that were shot there. Beside Still Waters The officials, however, were equal to the emergency, and cartloads of candles were quickly obtained. The King's Post Being a volume of historical facts relating to the posts, mail coaches, coach roads, and railway mail services of and connected with the ancient city of Bristol from 1580 to the present time Last night peasants from that end of the valley had come flocking into Benevento with cartloads of possessions and stored crops. The Saracen: The Holy War The innkeeper left his wife as a hostage and went out to the nearby farms, and after a tense hour arrived back with a cartload of wine barrels. The Saracen: Land of the Infidel This scourge swept off with no less virulence the workmen employed on the line of telegraph, and as the season advanced, cartloads after cartloads were carried to the hospitals, so that the works were stopped. Rambles in the Islands of Corsica and Sardinia with Notices of their History, Antiquities, and Present Condition. This entire sandy district was covered, "cartload by cartload, spadeful by spadeful with good soil brought from elsewhere." Birdseye Views of Far Lands And only two years ago, after many kilnfuls had been gathered and burnt, his grace the Duke of Argyll found that fossil wood could still he collected by cartloads along the shore of Helmsdale. The Testimony of the Rocks or, Geology in Its Bearings on the Two Theologies, Natural and Revealed As for the crypt, they carried away the bones, which made a thousand cartloads, and laid them over Finsbury Fields, covering them with ground, on which were erected three windmills. The History of London But the very thing that made it easy for him to get into the palace with that cartload of rice left him shocked and uneasy. The Saracen: Land of the Infidel The lower end was rendered firm by something like a cartload of heavy boulders being built around it. The Plant Hunters Adventures Among the Himalaya Mountains Oh, I don't want any explanations: I wouldn't give a thank-you for a cartload of 'em. Lippincott's Magazine, December 1878 We can never dispose of such a cartload of stuff in a week if we don’t have the entire school to help us,” cried Toinette, as she lifted one thing after another from the box. Caps and Capers A Story of Boarding-School Life And how all the people in the country used to work day and night to bring in cartloads of things, for fear if they allowed him to go hungry he would eat them instead? The Children's Book of London You see he was one of the leading murderers in that section of country, and consequently he received about a cartload of flowers every day. The Idler Magazine, Volume III, March 1893 An Illustrated Monthly He had come with a cartload of manure, and had scattered it pell-mell over the grass. Bouvard and Pécuchet A Tragi-comic Novel of Bourgeois Life If I was only rich," said Tommy miserably, "I'd buy her a cartload of dolls, all dressed in blue silk and all with brown eyes. Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1909 to 1922 "I wish there was less of fudge and humbug everywhere," said Sheffield; "one might shovel off cartloads from this place, and not miss it." Loss and Gain The Story of a Convert The giant could swallow up those cartloads as if they were spoonfuls. The Children's Book of London The few consisted of what might easily have been a cartload of snow, which passed them with a rush, fortunately on the opposite side of the gully. The Crystal Hunters A Boy's Adventures in the Higher Alps I'll telephone to the laundry to send down a cartload right away. Cricket at the Seashore "It's only a cartload of bricks being tipped," said Mrs. Bradford rather faintly. The Privet Hedge They go off downtown and proceed to lug home a cartload of mysterious bottles which they keep religiously away from hubby's investigating eye. The Woman Beautiful or, The Art of Beauty Culture The man is his own advertisement; his eccentricities are worth, at a moderate estimate, a dozen advertising vans, a daily paragraph in a score of newspapers, and a cartload of posters. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 379, May, 1847 Then we have a large surplus of earth, two cartloads to the rod, displaced by the two loads of stone, to be disposed of; and in case of the tiles, we have just earth enough. Farm drainage The Principles, Processes, and Effects of Draining Land with Stones, Wood, Plows, and Open Ditches, and Especially with Tiles We need not speak of the cartloads of oysters thrown into the sea to prevent a dainty, hitherto reserved for the rich, from becoming a food for the people. The Conquest of Bread There were stacks of tools, dozens of machines, and cartloads of material. The Crooked House A group of 60 was captured escorting two cartloads of arms and ammunition to a house. The Philippine Islands I declare false refinement is better than none at all; but these girls understand several languages, and have read cartloads of history, for their mother was a prudent woman. Mary Wollstonecraft First a small outer bag was pulled ashore, then a bigger one holding the day's catch, a Scotch cartload of fish—a bumper bag. From Edinburgh to India & Burmah Stow says the Duke of Somerset borrowed them, with a design never to return them, but furnisht his own study in his pompous house in the Strand; they were five cartloads.' The Book-Hunter in London Historical and Other Studies of Collectors and Collecting In a few hours both returned, a cartload of supplies and some clothing accompanying their conveyance. Oswald Langdon or, Pierre and Paul Lanier. A Romance of 1894-1898 We were perhaps half a dozen yards apart when right between us from the invisible roof, thirty feet above, a cartload of rocky fragments fell without warning. Recollections With Photogravure Portrait of the Author and a number of Original Letters, of which one by George Meredith and another by Robert Louis Stevenson are reproduced in facsimile And yet even Mr. Barnum, who should have had more sense, one day, on coming in, expressed his amazement on seeing about a cartload of country exchanges which I had not opened. Memoirs He might have had a cartload of wood handsome in appearance; but handsome wood combined with acoustical properties he deemed needful, was another matter. The Violin Its Famous Makers and Their Imitators At Hodgson's, of course, these books find their level, after repeated appearances; they are here sold, not quite by the cartload, but certainly in lots sufficiently large to fill a moderate sized wheelbarrow. The Book-Hunter in London Historical and Other Studies of Collectors and Collecting Then they washed it out, and flooded away cartloads of worthless soil, until a small residue of clear shining particles remained behind. The Lifeboat There was probably a good cartload of spoiled lead strewn there, and the dark face of the rock was pitted all over with grey bullet-marks. Recollections With Photogravure Portrait of the Author and a number of Original Letters, of which one by George Meredith and another by Robert Louis Stevenson are reproduced in facsimile It takes a cartload of our money to buy a paper collar and then it's a poor collar. Before the Dawn A Story of the Fall of Richmond He traces missing places, and there are cartloads of Poles in their own countries waiting for explorers. Here are Ladies A man with a cartload of corn was coming past. The Mermaid A Love Tale On the other side of the Black Mountains I met a cartload of gypsies; they were in a dreadful rage and were abusing the country right and left. George Borrow and His Circle Wherein May Be Found Many Hitherto Unpublished Letters Of Borrow And His Friends Wherever the Greeks had a school they dragged out a cartload of little children bidden to sing or shout in Greek. Twenty Years Of Balkan Tangle I hear wondrous stories of bees getting into cracks of church towers or upper stories, and bulging out the buildings with their accumulated stores—positively cartloads of sweetness. A Truthful Woman in Southern California Thirty-four cartloads of marble were then ready for shipment, together with two blocked-out figures. Michael Angelo Buonarroti Soon after this, Sidney arrived with cartloads of luggage, which seemed to detach him from America forever. Secret History Revealed By Lady Peggy O'Malley They came to us by basketfuls and cartloads. The Wit and Humor of America, Volume III. (of X.) We had sent his substitute, the poultry-dealer, with a cartload of odds and ends to Galicia, just to have him out of the way. Dr. Dumany's Wife Immense ant-hills are often depicted in the illustrations to tropical travels, but this great pile, which certainly contained more than a cartload, was within a few miles of Hyde Park Corner. Nature Near London You haven't to sit under the Pater's eye all day long, and have him down on you like a cartload of bricks if you make the slightest slip. A Popular Schoolgirl This is rock-salt, of which cartloads may be seen moving to the railway stations or piled up in various places. Roumania Past and Present For reply Drake landed part of his force on the islands, and Don Pedro, not knowing what to make of such visitors, found it best to propitiate them with cartloads of wine and fruit. English Seamen in the Sixteenth Century Lectures Delivered at Oxford Easter Terms 1893-4 Sometimes it is a wood-chopper and sometimes a couple of hundred cabbages, and sometimes a cartload of manure, and sometimes a few good hens. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 159, 1920-11-03 If I thought that I'd bring a cartload, and then run. The House of the Misty Star A Romance of Youth and Hope and Love in Old Japan And so, to-day, four cartloads of melons and cabbages have actually come with the Empress Dowager's own compliments. Indiscreet Letters From Peking Being the Notes of an Eye-Witness, Which Set Forth in Some Detail, from Day to Day, the Real Story of the Siege and Sack of a Distressed Capital in 1900—The Year of Great Tribulation They were soon speeding along the level road, past cartloads of farm products of every kind, which were slowly making their way towards the same goal. Miss Dexie A Romance of the Provinces Every day a cartload or two of corpses went over the bluff into the river; and men became reckless. The River and I As I walked to the mess, I found the road almost impassable from fallen trees; and dead birds, chiefly crows and kites, were so numerous that they had to be carried off in cartloads. Forty-one years in India From Subaltern To Commander-In-Chief A great deal would be said about the unscrupulous recklessness involved; the judge would come down like a cartload of bricks and the paper would get badly stung. The Summons A lady's trunk was a cartload; and a lady's trunk passing through the streets was a curiosity; you could scarcely get one carried for love or money. The Other Girls We will suppose the Cucumbers are to be grown in a two-light frame, for which will be required four good cartloads of stable manure. The Culture of Vegetables and Flowers From Seeds and Roots 16th Edition They expended some cartloads of ammunition in this manner without interference. The Record of a Regiment of the Line Being a Regimental History of the 1st Battalion Devonshire Regiment during the Boer War 1899-1902 A cartload of the wood was carried to the trial, and much of it was taken home by the spectators to make into canes and other relics, "The King is dead, long live the King!" The Bay State Monthly — Volume 1, No. 2, February, 1884 But the next minute, on seeing a couple of cartloads of quicklime, his thoughts were diverted. Jerusalem No. A cartload of bricks, tumbled down at random, would be a better metaphor. Expositions of Holy Scripture Ezekiel, Daniel, and the Minor Prophets. St Matthew Chapters I to VIII About twenty to thirty cartloads of half-rotten manure per acre may be dug or ploughed in to as great a depth as possible, consistent with the nature of the subsoil and the appliances at command. The Culture of Vegetables and Flowers From Seeds and Roots 16th Edition In Machadodorp on the evening of the day of the fight, guns and cartloads of ammunition were parked in the big open space in the centre of the town. The Record of a Regiment of the Line Being a Regimental History of the 1st Battalion Devonshire Regiment during the Boer War 1899-1902 The writer who has any honest intentions is more likely to be helped by a little judicious acid now and then than by cartloads of honey. Plum Pudding Of Divers Ingredients, Discreetly Blended & Seasoned Commodore Jones had brought with him a cartload of mail from captured British ships. In the Days of Poor Richard There has been swallowed up here twenty thousand cartloads of the best material in the attempt to mend the place. Young Folks Treasury, Volume 3 (of 12) Classic Tales and Old-Fashioned Stories Behind a mass of flowers--cartloads of them--a foreign orchestra was placed. Across India Or, Live Boys in the Far East You will see her first at a ball, with a cartload of nosegays slung on her arms, and generally all over her. Doctor Claudius, A True Story A well-known farmer, who was accustomed to make friendly calls on the Turnbull family, was caught in the act of bolting with a cartload of unlawful merchandise. Looking Seaward Again Tom at once took him at his word, and, placing the rope in a right position, rapidly made up a bundle containing at least a cartload, the men jeering at him all the while. Young Folks Treasury, Volume 2 (of 12) The youngster put some cartloads of food into his bag and set out again. Folk Tales Every Child Should Know History says that one hundred and forty thousand cartloads of pink sandstone and marble were brought from the quarries of Rajputana; and every province of the empire furnished precious stones to adorn it. Across India Or, Live Boys in the Far East There has been time for me to send my men out into the country; time for a farmer to come in with a cartload of produce, and be robbed here under your very nose! The Sword Maker Meanwhile, in each village, pyres of dry wood, amounting to thirty, fifty, or even a hundred cartloads, have been piled up. Modern Mythology I sent down a cartload this morning and had it well dug in. Hocken and Hunken But when he rested to get his dinner, for which he was going to have one of the cartloads in his bag, he found it was all eaten up. Folk Tales Every Child Should Know He dreams he is rich, and he goes out and orders cartloads of things from shops. The Little City of Hope A Christmas Story Tell them a vast sum has been collected, and that their cartloads will be bought entire the moment they enter the city. The Sword Maker Martin, a whole cartload of our furniture is come in. The Doctor's Dilemma They were therefore buried under two cartloads of manure, and the pile daily sprinkled with a certain liquor prepared with great trouble by the adepts. The Magician It is said that strange noises were frequently heard there, which sometimes seemed as if cartloads of stones were being run down one of the gables. True Irish Ghost Stories Them old rocks," sniffed the farmer, who had overheard this last remark, "I wouldn't give yer ten cents fer a cartload uv 'em. The Boy Inventors' Radio Telephone For it is most indubitable there is good in all;—and if you even see an Oliver Cromwell assassinated, it is certain you may get a cartload of turnips from his carcass. The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872, Vol II. By the time Denis Donohoe had delivered the cartload of turf the little donkey had eaten all the hay in the sack. Waysiders But to be crushed under a cartload of bricks isn't likely to do one much good, is it? The Plain Man and His Wife Then he poured into it all kinds of precious stones, and chips of sweet-smelling wood, besides a thousand cartloads of rose-leaves and a thousand cartloads of orange flowers. Milly and Olly We have material for a week at least, and paid for, excepting a few cartloads of lime. Don Orsino Of "Levered" and the other small American Documents—alas, I get cartloads of the like or better tumbled down at my door, and my chief duty is to front them resolutely with a shovel. The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872, Vol II. Then approving of the advice of the bishop, he said: 'Very true, my good host,' and he added: 'Be sure to send me every year to Aix two cartloads of just such cheeses.' Medieval People It happened to be the day when, all things and Rhoda working together, a cartload of bricks, another of sand, and some bags of lime had been despatched to build Sidney his almost daily-demanded pig-pound. A Diversity of Creatures Some were used in the repairing of a local church; a little later further leave was given for 200 cartloads of freestone to be removed from the ruins. The Historic Thames Ugo tells me that in a recent excavation twenty cartloads of oyster shells were discovered behind one house. Don Orsino In some places about the approaches to the factory cartloads of clinker and cinders have been dumped, and some of it continues to burn like pyres, throwing off dark flames and darker curtains. Light Londoners had seen Spanish gold and silver paraded through the streets when Philip married Mary—'27 chests of bullion, 99 horseloads + 2 cartloads of gold and silver coin, and 97 boxes full of silver bars!' Elizabethan Sea Dogs "How many of these cartloads have you lying around?" asked the proprietor quickly. The High School Boys' Fishing Trip "What on earth, Abner, did you mean by sending me this great cartload of pennies?" demanded the principal's spouse. The High School Pitcher Dick & Co. on the Gridley Diamond We met nobody the whole way except a man with a cartload of wood, who greeted the Oberforster with immense respect, and some dilapidated little children picking wild strawberries. Christine That is like trying to mend the Slough of Despond with cartloads of texts. Father Payne You might have done better than bring cartloads of phlox and larkspur a thousand miles. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 09, No. 55, May, 1862 Cartload after cartload of them came in at Angeles, shortly after General Jacob H. Smith took that place. The Philippines: Past and Present (Volume 1 of 2) Then take as much manure, in appearance, as you have dead leaves, and for each cartload have two bushels of unslaked quicklime and some earth. Gardening for the Million I ordered a cartload of plants and flowers to put along the staircase and in the rooms. Without Dogma We had such an abundance of vegetables from the garden and orchard, that we must have wasted cartloads, if we had not kept pigs to consume them. Our Farm of Four Acres and the Money we Made by it We brought home a small cartload of natural brackets; some of them beautiful. The Life and Letters of Elizabeth Prentiss "He probably gives 'em to his girl by the cartload—huh!" Polly and the Princess Lastly, he informs his correspondent that he has contracted with two separate companies for two hundred cartloads of Carrara marble. The Life of Michelangelo Buonarroti How aptly "spoon-fed pudding" characterizes whole cartloads of our current "juveniles"! Library Work with Children Every manager of a theatre, and every publishing bookseller of eminence, can produce you in each revolving season whole reams, almost cartloads, of blurred paper, testifying the frequent recurrence of this phenomenon. Thoughts on Man, His Nature, Productions and Discoveries Interspersed with Some Particulars Respecting the Author Like him he was a wild projector, seeking to heap up gold by the bushel and the cartload, instead of scraping it together, coin by coin. From Twice Told Tales He then pitched the cartload of tubs, buckets, and piggins out into the road, and gathering dried leaves and pine-straw, spread them in the bottom of the cart. The House Behind the Cedars It shows that thirty-four cartloads of marble were then ready for shipment, together with two figures weighing fifteen cartloads more. The Life of Michelangelo Buonarroti We dug foundations, got bricks in by the cartload, made our own mortar, and I think that we shall end by making a very fair job of it. The Stark Munro Letters "Yes, I used it to pay for a cartload of firewood I bought from a peasant." The Forged Coupon Many years since I used to go there to collect the sand by cartloads, to make sandpaper with, and I have continued to visit it ever since. Walden Her unflagging concentration would be required if she were to be finished by six—she had seven more cartloads of books, and less than five hours in which to reshelve them all. Violists So numerous were the abandoned weapons and equipments that cartloads of them were collected. My Days of Adventure The Fall of France, 1870-71 And if you like to bring a cartload of convicts down here, pray do so. The Crimson Blind He loaded up again with another cartload which he hoped to sell, but he looked in vain for a customer; no one would buy it. The Forged Coupon I simply made one single remark, and out she came with two cartloads of nonsensical trash! Hung Lou Meng, Book II Or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel in Two Books Cellars were dug on all sides, and cartloads of gravel flung upon its source, whence oozed a turbid stream, forming a mud-puddle, at the corner of two streets. A Rill from the Town Pump To the fuel, which the forest so plentifully furnished, were added several cartloads of coal, which they found at the foot of the spurs of Mount Franklin. The Mysterious Island Then all at once down something plunged close by the side of his bed, as if it were a whole cartload of hay. Popular Tales from the Norse Ivan Mironov began by asking a high price, but reduced it once, and finished by selling the cartload for just what it had cost him. The Forged Coupon Outside, three cartloads of fodder were going to waste. Look Back on Happiness "But if you made a mésalliance, as they call it," said I, "they'd be down upon you like a cartload of bricks." The Mountebank Slimak has bought a cartload of wood, and we must get it home before the roads are too bad. Selected Polish Tales Honest Tom gave Mercury a whole cartload of thanks, and revered the most great Jupiter. Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 4 What a devil! said he, this wound is very deep; it would hold above two cartloads of moss. Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 2 Ripping and tearing the trunk, he descended almost as if falling, a shower of bark preceding him like a cartload of shingles. Hunting with the Bow and Arrow Cartload after cartload may be tilted into the bottomless bog, and there is no more solid ground on the surface than there was at the beginning. Expositions of Holy Scripture Psalms No sooner had he departed than the Germans drove off and returned with heavy cartloads of building materials. Selected Polish Tales One day a cartload of chairs; the next a waggonful of fenders, fire-irons, and glass and crockery—a quantity of supplies, in a word, he poured into the place. The Newcomes Memoirs of a Most Respectable Family You cannot fill a bottomless bog with any number of cartloads of earth. Expositions of Holy Scripture : St. Matthew Chaps. IX to XXVIII To start the heap, gather up every available substance and make it into a pile with a few wheelbarrows full, or half a cartload, of fresh horse manure, treading the whole down firmly. Home Vegetable Gardening — a Complete and Practical Guide to the Planting and Care of All Vegetables, Fruits and Berries Worth Growing for Home Use To tumble down cartloads of quotations about all sorts of nations that ran up booths and feasted in them at vintage-time does not help us much. Expositions of Holy Scripture Guy had gone on with the men-at-arms at daybreak, and a banquet had been prepared, and twenty cartloads of grain and a hundred bullocks sent off to meet the army on its march. At Agincourt Poplar trees fell, houses crumbled, like a cartload of stones emptied by the roadside. The Flood Mr Macmichael said he might try it, only he must mind and not go to bed and leave the water running, else they would have a cartload of mud in the house before morning. Gutta-Percha Willie In amount, from fifteen to twenty-five cords, or 60 to 100 cartloads, will not be too much; although if fertilizers are used to help out, the manure may be decreased in proportion. Home Vegetable Gardening — a Complete and Practical Guide to the Planting and Care of All Vegetables, Fruits and Berries Worth Growing for Home Use The leaves, even, are not all left; they have a value for gardening purposes: though, of course, the few cartloads collected make no appreciable difference. The Open Air Little wonder over the wild talk, when cartloads of solid silver bricks as large as pigs of lead were passing by every day before their very eyes. Mark Twain If they chose to say nothing of the matter which was in her heart continually, would she go whining to them about it, and scrape a grain of pity from a cartload of contempt? Mary Anerley : a Yorkshire Tale “Mine has brought three cartloads of sand without pay.” The Social Cancer The vicinity of the oil-boring had been exceptionally free from small stones; but in half an hour one might have picked up a two-horse cartload weighing from ten to twenty pounds each. On a Torn-Away World Or, the Captives of the Great Earthquake As to the early religious pictures of the Italian school, I cared nothing either for subject or treatment, and would have given a cartload of them for a drawing by Hunt of a bird’s nest. More Pages from a Journal When a mere child I once drew a small cartload of raw turnips over a wooden bridge.—The people of the village noticed me. Public Speaking "I don't intend to buy books by the cartload," he replied. Without a Home What was I doing—a fat, middle-aged woman—trapesing along the roads with a cartload of books I didn't understand? Parnassus on Wheels The arrival of a cartload of cases at the Junta, which Constance arranged for herself, bore out the letter. Constance Dunlap She sent me home a whole cartload of green ties, and declared I'd ordered them. The Beetle Several birds seem to co-operate in the building of a mound, which may contain many cartloads of material, but each bird appears to have a particular area in which to deposit her eggs. Confessions of a Beachcomber I say, Riach, if I were you I would set all my prisoners free and take away a cartload of their wives instead. The Little Minister These things are sent to me by the dozen—I might say, by the cartload. Born in Exile "The chap that did all that had a cartload of patience," Blaire declares as he looks at the rainbow embellishments. Under Fire: the story of a squad Melons and cantaloupes were brought in by the cartload. Tales of Aztlan; the Romance of a Hero of our Late Spanish-American War, Incidents of Interest from the Life of a western Pioneer and Other Tales Lower down, where they had thrown the big dam across to make the bed dry, they were taking out this same stuff and even better, so they said, in cartloads. Arcadian Adventures with the Idle Rich The boughs cracked, and the leaves torn away by cartloads went down the cavernous throats of the vast brutes. A Journey to the Interior of the Earth It seemed so painfully absurd that forty muscular men should be ironed and guarded for no better purpose than the cracking of a cartload of quartz-pebbles. For the Term of His Natural Life Such cartloads and piles of bananas and pine-apples, such heaps of custard-apples and "bullocks' hearts," such a wealth of gold and green giving off fragrance! The Golden Chersonese and the Way Thither Naturally, the Talmud was condemned, and twenty - four cartloads of Hebrew books were consigned to the flames. Rashi I don't think you can, because King'll be down on the corps like a cartload o' bricks. Stalky & Co. And sure enough the whole place was soon turned upside-down—cartloads of sand coming in for the garden walks and the courtyard, and painters hard at work repainting the houses. The Great Hunger When Josiah went to Springfield to buy any thing, he took a cartload of things with him to exchange. Tales of the Argonauts When you wake up in the morning you find that during the night a cartload has been deposited in your front garden. The Point of View At Montargis, the sentence pronounced against the marauders who had stolen cartloads of wood in the national forests had to be revised, and by the judges themselves. The French Revolution - Volume 1 In this way hardly a cartload of "pay-gravel" ever arrived safely at its destination, and the unfortunate M'Ginnis was compelled to withdraw Billy as a beast of burden. Mr. Jack Hamlin's Mediation That wretched nag was to drag all the cartload of them at a gallop! Crime and Punishment I suppose cartloads have been written about art. A Face Illumined And he added that surely whole cartloads of words and theories could never fill that chasm. Under Western Eyes The landowner sent to the Russian camp several cartloads of forage, and put amongst his carters his bailiff, dressed as a peasant. The Memoirs of General Baron De Marbot It will find its food, its real Sunday dinner, in the midst of a whole cartload of refuse; and it will do the whole week's work on it. David Elginbrod Then it grew louder, and I thought somebody was shooting out cartloads of stones; then it seemed as if the shock was breaking big stones into pieces. A Miscellany of Men But he knew not how to consume the time; he could not sleep, and spent the hours of the night in reading; every evening he brought back with him, as Mariotte remarked, cartloads of books. Beatrix Now they were bringing them down by the cartload, dumping them in like the rubbish from some demolished building. The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse The shearers came aboard next morning, with their swags and two cartloads of boiled mutton, bread, "brownie", and tea and sugar. Over the Sliprails Next, as main-march, 'fifty cartloads of corn,' which have been lent, for peace, from the stores of Versailles. The French Revolution To the fuel which was so abundantly supplied by the forest, they added several cartloads of coal, which had to be brought from the foot of the spurs of Mount Franklin. The Mysterious Island He passed, without misadventure, a fruiterer's van and a sluggish cartload of bricks. The Wheels of Chance: a Bicycling Idyll Human souls buried under a cartload of blithering rubbish.... The New Machiavelli Twice when the dustman is called in to carry off a cartload of old paper, ashes, and broken bottles, the whole court assembles and pries into the baskets as they come forth. Bleak House Get the Constitution ready; and all men will swear to it: for do not 'Addresses of adhesion' arrive by the cartload? The French Revolution Nay motherly Paris has sent her Avengers sufficient 'cartloads of loaves;' which are shouted over, which are gratefully consumed. The French Revolution The City, through all streets, is flowing thitherward to see: 'two cartloads of paving-stones, that happened to pass that way' have been seized as a visible godsend. The French Revolution "Good honest men," as Dayton calls them, rule the world, with a way of thinking out decisions like shooting cartloads of bricks, and with a steadfast pleasure in hostility. The New Machiavelli |
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