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.
2 The sound of wheels roused her from these musings, and leaning behind her shutters she saw the omnibus take up its freight.
3 'We'll catch the freight that gets in before twelve,' I told him.
4 Maybe he came in on a freight, but the brakeman hadn't seen him.
5 Sometimes there were Bohemians from Wilber, or German boys who came down on the afternoon freight from Bismarck.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 DumasContext Highlight 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 1 By Jonathan SwiftContext Highlight In PART 2: CHAPTER VIII.