| 单词 | porterage |
| 例句 | From providing porterage services to supplying food and other necessities that made the trade possible, local businesses also profited from the sale of enslaved people. World History: from 1400 2022-12-14T00:00:00Z Owner of car will oblige by telegraphing acceptance of offer, with name and address, early to-morrow, paying porterage, which will be refunded.—Armathwaite, The House 'Round the Corner 2012-04-14T02:00:22.063Z The salvage from the most ardent fires of affection rarely paid the porterage. The King of Schnorrers Grotesques and Fantasies 2011-12-28T03:00:34.587Z The deep snow, the tremendous ascent, and impossibility of seeing a foothold made this porterage most laborious: but we had all safely stowed in our cave before sundown. Wild Spain (Espa?a agreste) Records of Sport with Rifle, Rod, and Gun, Natural History Exploration 2011-12-05T03:00:38.980Z Between the provision tax, porterage and paddlers, I believe that the people of Bompona have got very little time to themselves. The Crime of the Congo 2011-10-13T02:00:47.603Z In addition to the porterage of goods they also undertake the hewing of wood, such as is used for warming purposes in the East. Turkey Peeps at Many Lands 2011-09-21T02:00:31.190Z There are still a large number of cities where the suburbs have no proper water service, and the water barrel is then very handy 411 for water porterage. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 4 "Finland" to "Fleury, Andre" 2011-03-20T02:00:30.697Z A great idea is labouring its way to birth in his mind—an idea that may give him a better foothold here than any casually escaped fox or precarious porterage of messages can ever do. Doctor Cupid 2011-03-13T03:00:23.987Z These were made over for porterage to some of Tyala’s tribesmen who were hanging respectfully around, and then the old man got up to go. Harley Greenoak's Charge We may pass the Report of the Commission in so far as it deals with the taxation of the natives, food taxes, porterage taxes and other imposts. The Crime of the Congo 2011-10-13T02:00:47.603Z Supplies were now abundant, and, thanks to private enterprise, a railway extended from Balaclava to the camp, and so saved the labour of porterage. A Gallant Grenadier A Tale of the Crimean War The antique and barbarous method of porterage should be abolished in every British colony, more especially in tropical colonies, where exposure to sun and rain means death to white and black. Through South Africa His Visit to Rhodesia, the Transvaal, Cape Colony, Natal Besides, persons in transitu will leave much money in our cities and along their routes, to say nothing of the porterage and costs of transportation of goods. Ocean Steam Navigation and the Ocean Post Soon my two light carpet-bags, which I was not allowed to carry, came up with a fresh demand for porterage. Glances at Europe In a Series of Letters from Great Britain, France, Italy, Switzerland, &c. During the Summer of 1851. And finally came the dismembering of the raft itself, and the porterage of its component parts and the canoe to the upper end of the rapids, where it was put together again. In Search of El Dorado But the porterage was no sinecure for the delinquent elephant, who found it difficult at times to get along over African sands even without a burden. Captain Canot or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver For some reason or other the R.E., who design material for our porterage, consider its end and not its portability. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 150, March 29, 1916 My bag this time made no great demands on my powers of porterage, consisting as it did of a solitary snipe. The Right Stuff Some Episodes in the Career of a North Briton He then left them, and went alone into the forest to find Maroons for the porterage. On the Spanish Main Or, Some English forays on the Isthmus of Darien. At the side men and boys drive the flocks and herds, while as often as not the elder women-folk take a full share in the porterage of their property. Life in Morocco and Glimpses Beyond None were exempt, and those who were not employed in porterage and rough carpentry might be found shifting furniture, or stitching curtains, or jointing together bedsteads. Uppingham by the Sea a Narrative of the Year at Borth Hence it was confided to the careful porterage of Dawson, an assiduous and favored courtier of Miss Paterson; and he, having lunched, was fated to leave it behind at Lazarus' Hotel. The Second Class Passenger Fifteen Stories A thousand threats have made her porterage a downright office, bluntly performed. Berry And Co. It was a somewhat unusual occurrence; for we were a good way from the office, and, porterage being expensive, we had carefully instructed our ordinary correspondents that we preferred the humbler post-card, as a rule. Up in Ardmuirland No porterage of water anywhere in the house. The Card, a Story of Adventure in the Five Towns It is here necessary that the traveller should be as much upon his guard as in Egypt among the Arabs, in the matters of boat-fares, porterage, etc. A Visit to the Holy Land, Egypt, and Italy And this is quite a wide one, including a great variety of errandry and porterage, as well as polishing boots and shoes. A Walk from London to John O'Groat's It was already beyond maternal porterage, and Caddles, staggering indeed, but grinning triumphantly at quantitatively inferior parents, bore it back to the free-sitting occupied by his party. The Food of the Gods and How It Came to Earth For many years the porterage of goods across this island to the Ottawa above—which is called Lake Chats—was a work of much difficulty and expense. Lands of the Slave and the Free Cuba, the United States, and Canada You paid far less for seeing me, I ken, Than porterage for seeing noble men. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 397, November 7, 1829 When Skinsky had come to him, he had taken him to the ship and handed over the box, so as to save porterage. Dracula The basket being large and heavy, Car had placed it for convenience of porterage on the top of her head, where it rode on in jeopardized balance as she walked with arms akimbo. Tess of the d'Urbervilles The telegram despatched, prepaid with the porterage by Viviette, Austin felt that he had done his duty by his brother, and deserved some consideration on his own account. Viviette "I wish you would let me do the porterage," he said. In the Midst of Alarms Some said that Sisyphus had done his job of porterage long enough; Tantalus would be dying of thirst, if he were not relieved; the drag must be put at last on wretched Ixion's wheel. Apocolocyntosis Here they made but slow progress because of the frequent rapids, which necessitated the porterage of the canoes over broken ground, and for considerable distances. The People of the Mist Yes, sir; there's half-a-crown to pay for porterage, if you please. What's Bred in the Bone The man who plunders is no longer a man, he is a machine for porterage, and all who list may treat him as a slave. Cyropaedia: the education of Cyrus To those who desire it letters are brought out and delivered by carriers, who charge a separate porterage for that service; but the rule is that letters should be delivered from the window. North America — Volume 2 |
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