In the first he was quite right, and if my master had always been on the premises I do not think I should have been overloaded, but there was a foreman who was always hurrying and driving every one, and frequently when I had quite a full
load he would order something else to be taken on.
"The last
load, eh?" he shouted to a young peasant, who drove by, standing in the front of an empty cart, shaking the cord reins.
The fellow seemed sane enough--yet ten
loads of gold!
Forward then they set, the Indians with their horses well freighted, and the first
load convoyed by Reed and five men, well armed; the gallant Irishman striding along at the head, with his tin case of despatches glittering on his back.
Somebody's
load has tipped off in the road-- Cheer for a halt and a row!
The modern steamship with her many holds is not
loaded within the sailor-like meaning of the word.
By this time, tumbling things in as they came, we had the jolly-boat
loaded as much as we dared.
As soon as the sledge was
loaded he meant to send Jotham back to the farm and hurry on foot into the village to buy the glue for the pickle-dish.
During the halt Tess's eyes fell upon a three-pint blue mug, which was ascending and descending through the air to and from the feminine section of a household, sitting on the summit of a
load that had also drawn up at a little distance from the same inn.
Into the midst of them, when with more howlings and yelpings they were
loaded into the baggage car, was Michael's cage piled.
But tell me where it is, and I will
load my eighty camels with it, and give you one of them as a token of my gratitude."
Buck watched them apprehensively as they proceeded to take down the tent and
load the sled.