1 There were a few wagons loading at the freight cars and several mud-splashed buggies with rough-looking strangers at the reins but only two carriages.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret MitcheGet Context In CHAPTER XXXIII 2 The sound of wheels roused her from these musings, and leaning behind her shutters she saw the omnibus take up its freight.
House of Mirth By Edith WhartonGet Context In BOOK 1: Chapter 5 3 'We'll catch the freight that gets in before twelve,' I told him.
Main Street By Sinclair LewisGet Context In CHAPTER XXIV 4 Maybe he came in on a freight, but the brakeman hadn't seen him.
My Antonia By Willa CatherGet Context In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: VI 5 Sometimes there were Bohemians from Wilber, or German boys who came down on the afternoon freight from Bismarck.
My Antonia By Willa CatherGet Context In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: XII 6 That day they had killed about four thousand cattle, and these cattle had come in freight trains from far states, and some of them had got hurt.
7 The gates were down, and a long train of freight cars was thundering by.
8 He traveled upon the railroad with several other men, hiding in freight cars at night, and liable to be thrown off at any time, regardless of the speed of the train.
9 For some time there was no noise but the grating sound of the spades discharging their freight of mould and gravel.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark TwainGet Context In CHAPTER IX 10 About two o'clock in the morning the raft grounded on the bar two hundred yards above the head of the island, and they waded back and forth until they had landed their freight.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark TwainGet Context In CHAPTER XIII 11 When the ferryboat with her wild freight pushed into the stream, nobody cared sixpence for the wasted time but the captain of the craft.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark TwainGet Context In CHAPTER XXIX 12 I'm the captain and the owner and the mate and the pilot and watchman and head deck-hand; and sometimes I'm the freight and passengers.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark TwainGet Context In CHAPTER XIII. 13 I fully authorize you at once to assume the command of the Pharaon, and look carefully to the unloading of her freight.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasGet Context In Chapter 5. The Marriage-Feast. 14 The Phoenicians stayed a whole year till they had loaded their ship with much precious merchandise, and then, when they had got freight enough, they sent to tell the woman.
15 I offered to leave my goods in security for payment of my freight: but the captain protested he would not receive one farthing.
Gulliver's Travels(V1) By Jonathan SwiftGet Context In PART 2: CHAPTER VIII.