Sentence example with the word 'lighters'

lighters

Last update: October 8, 2015


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..: the ships anchor at considerable risk in the roads, but the love of gain prevails: for the large number of lighters which receive the cargoes and reload them renders the time short before they can enter the river, and having lightened a part of their cargoes they sail in and ascend to Rome."   [Please select]

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It is then conveyed by lighters or surf boats to the great ocean liners which lie anchored off the shore.   [Please select]

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On one side of it lies a fleet of flat-bottomed lighters manned by glistening and excited negroes.   [Please select]

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Just as I did so some lighters came out, and we were hard at work till dusk getting out the cargo.   [Please select]

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The rattle of the derricks, and all the cursing, sweating stevedores in their rolling lighters.   [Please select]

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* * * * * The very singular bequest was a Bible, with three cigarette-lighters for markers, and a date on the fly-leaf: "July 5th, 1912."   [Please select]

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All day we watched the spotlessly clean Mayan stevedores unloading the cargo on to the lighters.   [Please select]

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