He tells me the porters upriver have bows and arrows and a BB gun but that these are strictly for hunting crocodiles and birds. |
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It was only the quick grab of one of his porters that saves him from the fall. |
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You need a daypack to carry a few essentials, as the porters carrying your equipment will usually hike their own way. |
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Gone are the African guards, the other porters carrying luggage, and the road and the countryside. |
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We were met by porters who carried our luggage on their heads and we took a shuttle boat, called a dhow, across to tiny Lamu Island. |
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Commuters alighting at the station, porters with luggage on their head and the crowds on the platform as the train arrives, were all there. |
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Horses, and at high altitudes, yaks, are used instead of porters to carry loads. |
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The car drove off to the train station, and the porters put her luggage on the train. |
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Employees including porters, cleaners, security guards and others voted by 254 to 152 to take industrial action. |
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They are looking receptionists, bar staff, night porters, duty managers and housekeepers, among other staff. |
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Now we have Ales, with their bitters, pale ales, porters, stouts, barley wines, trappist, lambic, and alt. |
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Nor do I begrudge the jobs that Everesting has created for Sherpas, guides, cooks, porters, and writers like me. |
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Goods are often transported by pack animals or carried by porters over mountain trails. |
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Yet the Sherpas did not climb this and other peaks until recruited as porters on sahibs' expeditions. |
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Two years later, a 52-man Japanese expedition with 1,500 porters laid siege to K2, scaled the Abruzzi, and posted the second summit. |
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The State Forest Minister even said that the locals will be allowed to act as porters and guides when tourism starts, as if it was a favour. |
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She pursued the thief onto the High Street before returning to Exeter College to alert the porters. |
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The military also forces villages to supply porters to carry army supplies to their operations. |
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Although roads connect many major commercial centers, in much of the country goods are transported by porters and pack animals. |
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In 1925, the porters organized the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, which was led by A. Philip Randolph. |
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Bellboys, porters, restroom attendants and taxi drivers will happily accept loose change. |
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The dining car waiters and Pullman porters knew it too, and they faked their Uncle Tomming to get bigger tips. |
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Last year the sacking of a union rep at the hospital sparked an unofficial walkout by porters. |
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About ten years ago, Mr Haggarty said night porters are said to have seen a First World War soldier drinking in the bar. |
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This explains why Edwardian ladies had so much luggage, deposited in the baggage van by a team of railway porters. |
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Originally, all beers were dark and heavy, similar to the porters, stouts and brown ales of Britain. |
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The unwilling native porters they had brought from Rabaul either went bush or dropped from exhaustion. |
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Wine waiter positions, hall porters and cook jobs can be found for the whole of the London area. |
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The concierges, called hall porters here, are just to the right, efficiently satisfying demands. |
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This locking device can be released by car park porters who will be carrying two handsets called cart controllers. |
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It is 3am and the only people on the streets are bloodstained meat porters lugging carcasses from cold-storage lorries to the butchers' aisles. |
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As an egalitarian, I liked the appellate tribunal's manner of lumping together porters, stokers, stretcher bearers, and doctors. |
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We do still get requests for some of the chewier beers like porters and stouts but the light beers are big. |
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Relations with management are so bad that as well as the official strikes, 25 porters walked out unofficially recently. |
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It's too easy to say that lagers have a clean hoppy character, stouts and porters have roasted flavours, and wheat beers, fruity and clove ones. |
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The staff were wonderful, friendly, approachable, the porters made me laugh and were teasing me lots on the way to the theatre. |
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Sherpas, well known as mountain guides and porters, live in the high mountains of E. Nepal. |
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Even today in more primitive areas, porters and pack animals are still the most effective means of moving military supplies. |
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Cargo ships still to this day jostle with rice barges and fragile sampans, whilst porters sweat in the humidity loading the boats. |
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In these buildings stores were massed, porters collected and equipment unpacked and tested. |
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At this rate we more or less kept pace with the unfortunate porters whose job it is to supply the mountains' hotels with everything from tea to double glazing. |
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The next day we made it to the village only to find out there was a wedding on, so no porters were available and we still had a days walk ahead of us. |
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Ask porters and taxicab drivers to carry your luggage whenever possible. |
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Lincoln's fire policy was questioned last term, when a fire burned unnoticed overnight and porters, believing there was no fire, turned off five alarms. |
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During his stay at an Italian hospital he charmed nurses and bribed porters into bringing him a steady stream of cognac, Cinzano vermouth, Marsala and Chianti. |
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Six Senegalese porters lived in the single room below us, holding cheerful merguez barbecues with the window closed in case the landlord caught them. |
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Another group that has carved out an occupational niche for itself is the Sherpas, who are well known as guides and porters for mountain-climbing expeditions. |
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A generation ago, mounting an expedition meant drafting a herd of porters, slogging loads of gear to a rocky base camp, and laying siege to a Himalayan peak. |
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Then the Micro-brewery revolution introduced several different varieties of beer, from ales and porters, to bocks and even more pilsners, and the beer market took off. |
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Even in England, the traditional home of ales, lagers grow bigger and bigger, placing not only ales, but stouts, porters and other brews in the shade. |
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The porters struck camp and headed back down the valley towards Gangotri. |
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There are also lockers next to the pigeonholes. Ask the porters. |
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The country's military junta has come under fire for decades for conscripting boys to the lower ranks of the military as porters and mine carriers. |
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In England, porter, originally the beer favoured by porters at the market, became the health drink of the Victorians, often prescribed by doctors for convalescent ladies. |
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It was crowded and noisy, but fortunately, Baron Kaspar got a few porters to carry our luggage and surround us, keeping us isolated from everyone else. |
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This always becomes alarming as the number of items increases to the point that I would need an army of attendants and porters to carry the luggage. |
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I have been in hospital, very recently, where I was never checked in, never greeted and not even asked to get changed for my operation until the porters came to get me. |
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Bill, like many of the porters at the hospital, is a former steelworker. |
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It is an eight-day walk from the nearest town to the earliest gold fields, and the only way to bring in supplies is on the backs of native porters. |
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Instead of four porters, two men transport the colonial official. |
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The expedition lasted 15 days, with a crew of porters, cooks, and guides. |
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The porters at the College and eleven hired security officials then detained a man at the instruction of the College Dean while the police were called. |
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On all the treks featured here, porters are available to carry their gear, so all they carry personally is a small daypack with water and a camera. |
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The term stout was initially used to indicate a stronger porter than other porters issued by an individual brewery. |
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Not only bishops, priests, deacons and subdeacons but also of porters, lectors, exorcists, acolytes, canons, abbots, abbesses. |
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Long queues have become normality whereas the porters have been witnessed to sell the tickets in black. |
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Because of the huge popularity of porters, brewers made them in a variety of strengths. |
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All of the porters also belonged to Union Lodge, a black freemasons' temple popular with seafarers, sleeping car porters, and prosperous black Haligonian businessmen. |
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Not but that the Grand Hotel is equal to any other Grand Hotel with its regiment of waiters, bootses, chambermaids, porters, lifts, housemaids, cooks, and so forth. |
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With beer writers such as Michael Jackson writing about stouts and porters in the 1970s, there has been a moderate interest in the global speciality beer market. |
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It took 10,000 lbs of baggage and supplies, 362 porters and 20 Sherpa guides for Sir Edmund Hillary and Tibetan climber Tenzing Norgay to become the highest humans on Earth. |
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Golden ales, summer beers, harvest ales, barley wines, India pale ales, porters, stouts and oak-aged beers bring a diversity to the beer scene unknown 30 years ago. |
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We decamped to Porters, as usual, and took over half a dozen tables or so to drink the night away. |
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Porters stagger towards the First Class under a mountain of smart packing cases and trunks. |
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English Porters and stouts are generally as dark or darker than old ales, and significantly more bitter. |
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