Looking for sentences and phrases with the word freights? Here are some examples.
Sentence Examples
He thinks wistfully of how he used to hop freights, white lightning in hobo jungles, go through the pockets of the recently dead.
But when the decline in sailing-ship freights set in, and crews were reduced in number, stunsails were discontinued, and they will now never be seen again.
Meanwhile, Apollo paints a vivid picture in his music of smokey clubs, runaway freights, bonfires and bossa novas.
Examples from Classical Literature
The classification of freights applies to all the lines, regardless of class.
The high prices charged for trifles were eloquent of high freights and bewildering distances of freightage.
It should administer the sea law of the world, and control and standardise freights in the common interests of mankind.
Would not Hungary, for instance, be able to manipulate the railway freights?
I suppose you are one of those grasping traders that go about in ships as captains or merchants, and who think of nothing but of their outward freights and homeward cargoes.
It is only at home, in dock, that she lies abandoned, shut off from freedom by all the artifices of men that think of quick despatch and profitable freights.
