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Sentence Examples The party also included two flagmen, two chainmen, three axemen, a cook, and a teamster to look after two wagons and a pack train of mules. We all went through some tough times together, but we really circled the wagons. A melancholy cavalcade of clansmen subsequently set forth in wagons for London. Trains 908m in length, and trailing 62 wagons, started transporting produce through the port last week. Skipton Police have received three complaints of parked cars, delivery wagons and trailers, causing problems for pedestrians and other motorists. The convoy, which included articulated lorries, skip wagons and even a tractor, was escorted by police as it left Monks Cross at 8am. The twenty-eight attempted to return to their cars when suddenly they were surrounded by dozens of police cars and wagons. Stories abound of coal wagons stripped of half their load by street urchins before a first delivery could be made. Residents have complained about being awoken in the early hours by empty wagons rumbling through the town on their way to the quarries. Road sweepers and bin wagons were among the vehicles which attended the final farewell for Eric Saporiti yesterday. Transport in closed wagons was only permitted on 22 November 1941, at which point there had been permanent frost for over three weeks. Only ammunitions wagons and ambulances were brought up to the immediate rear lines. This lane has a 7.5-ton restriction which is ignored by all and sundry, especially skip wagons and large vehicles. A pall of gloom hangs over the usually bustling market town as sealed container wagons and Army trucks rumble through the streets. It took 12 wagons to transport one of the immense guns and 24 hours to put it together once its destination was reached. Aboard the covered harvest wagons, out of the misty air, we wind our way past fields of broccoli, kale and parsley, and stop in the tomato patch. There were still a few farms left, hay wagons were as common in the streets as horse drawn beer carts. Villagers had to use whatever transport was available, including pickup trucks and wagons pulled by tractors. After we had bailed the hay then we would get the long wagons and load the hay. On a mixed conventional and organic farm, wagons can also be potential vectors for contamination. Show More Sentences Two stories and a side shed provide space for calving heifers, storing wagons, and fixing equipment. I travelled by foot, by hitch-hiking and by clambering onto the wagons of freight trains. For a long time, the line, its locomotives and wagons was the most reliable inland mode of transport for both passengers and goods. Heaps of coal from the shattered freight wagons lay scattered across the line, spilling right up to the very doors of the nearest homes. The railway has generally scoured Europe for suitable rolling stock and has also acquired some ballast wagons from Romania. His saloon car was written off in the incident and one of the railway wagons suffered axle and chassis damage. The company would also construct a 2.5km rail loop at the rail head for loading wagons and servicing locomotives. The North Yorkshire Moors Railway provided a diesel locomotive and goods wagons to ferry water to the scene. Fourteen wagons of timber left the track at Quintinshill, near Gretna, at 9.07 am. All railway wagons of the kind in the tragedy at Tebay have been removed from service by Network Rail pending its investigation. Transport officials said one of the rear wagons may have derailed first, pulling others off the line. Each siding will accommodate a locomotive and wagons capable of transporting 210 vehicles. Around him, horse-drawn wagons rumbled by, loaded with sacks of flour or crates of dried meat. They traveled by rail, further by horse-drawn wagons over a steep, rugged mill road that ended at Sempervirens Creek. And when the Rocieros arrive with their horses, wagons and high-sprung carriages the image is complete. The bureau was now responsible for the inspection of motorized vehicles, as well as horse-drawn wagons. The fair was just as colourful as always with traditional horse-drawn wagons vying for space with modern caravans. Turning up late for the summer-solstice party at Stonehenge in 2001, he found the only stragglers left were folksy types in horse-drawn wagons. A cloud of dust rises into the air as horse-drawn wagons filled with farm families head into town. Mobile food wagons rather than traditional catering facilities are the order of the day. Show More Sentences Once the council realises its mistake and I'm allowed to stay, I'll get gypsy wagons down here to repair and put on show. A major recent trend is the popularity of a host of new style occasional four-wheel-drive wagons. Are sports wagons an antidote to SUVs, or are they a niche unto themselves? Subaru's very good Outback was one of the pioneers, and there are several European all-wheel drive wagons for the image conscious. I certainly see there is plenty of good automotive art in this mix of new models and concept wagons. Many consumers just preferred the SUV image and fun over the minivan and increasingly didn't even explore wagons. But he didn't answer, simply stumbled into the middle of the road, disrupting the monotonous traverse of the sedans and hatchbacks and wagons. The lines on the cars are more defined and crisp than on previous Peugeot sedans and wagons. Elephants and horses have been replaced now by tractors and wagons decked with flowers and a throne for each acharya and a few of his followers. Grant's goal was to have his wagons never operate more than a single day's march from their supply depots, usually at railheads or river ports. The timber is of the highest quality, denser than other oak timber, and in the days of wagons was prized for making whiffletrees. Laborers raked it into windrows at the marshes' edges, shoveled it into wagons, and transported it to refining sites. Railways' have only a meagre capacity for manufacturing wagons in their workshops. The other interesting thing for a North American is seeing wagons rolling through a yard and then noticing that there are no hand brakes. Mr Hill said the Class 66 diesel locomotive was pulling 16 hopper wagons loaded with coal for Eggborough power station in North Yorkshire. The locomotives and the oil tank wagons were built in China and are powered by British-manufactured engines. Seeds and planting supplies were delivered late, wagons and ploughs arrived decrepit, axes were too small to be useful. Trucks, buses, and horse-pulled wagons paid seventy-five cents for a round trip. Once they had passed, Bligh scrambled down the bank and stopped as the wagons rumbled past within inches of his face. There were wagons parked there, two of them, with bison in the traces ruminating and steaming in the crisp air. Show More Sentences It was not caused by the weight of concrete in the wagons, the bridge structure, vandalism on the line, or excessive train speed. Whilst waiting for the wagons, the boys organised sentries, checked their horses' tack, loaded their revolvers and relaxed. On macadamized roads, stage coaches and freight wagons could travel unimpeded by bogs or ruts. In November, we had incidents of people breaking through fencing and looking under tarpaulins to see if our wagons were loaded. Once everyone was cowering inside a protective ring of wagons, carts, and horses, Hasim breathed a sigh of relief. Two locomotives and tenders, ten carriages, fifteen goods wagons and one horsebox were purchased. That envisaged more than 2,000 stations, thousands of passenger services and a third of a million freight wagons being scrapped. However, open and closed wagons are available for the carriage of bicycles and can be marshalled into a train as required. Not quite a sedan or SUV, today's station wagons are stylish, functional and fast. A Coroner van, what the doctors back at the hospital used to call meat wagons, backed in neatly, and two men got out. More than a fifth of urban wagons weighed over three tons, with heavier weights requiring long, hard-to-manage multiple-horse teams. Picture horse-drawn vegetable wagons, like those that worked the Bronx well into the 1940s, piled high with organic microgreens. Hardly had these words been uttered when a train of wagons arrived from the village and drew up outside the mess hall. Sattahip has not produced much traffic for rail, although I believe a train of oil tank wagons did run each night for a time. Behind the huge caravan of people, travois, and pony herds, some 120 freight wagons carried supplies and indigent Indians. Bin wagons, rubbish bins and boxes are all in line for a major shake-up to smooth the way for kerbside recycling. It was the longest passenger train in Australia's history with two NR Class Locomotives hauling 43 carriages and two Motorail wagons. Two wagons had been uncoupled and set up at the far side as back to back dressing rooms. Chernow estimates that Standard Oil charged unprofitably low prices in 9,000 out 37,000 towns where tank wagons distributed the oil. The roads were built so that two of these wagons could pass on both sides of the roads. Show More Sentences Prodigious quantities of soil were excavated manually by navvies, and moved with the aid of nothing more than horse-drawn tip wagons. The trust is also raising funds for plans to obtain new wagons and a brake van and is appealing for sponsors. What threatens to be merely a soppy love story among the wagons and petticoats becomes something more dramatic. Under such circumstances their wagons frequently became stuck and they had to cut open new roadways on higher and thicker vegetated ground. As we expected, you are trying to circle the wagons to protect your hold on power. Burning arrows streamed over the trees, a few finding marks in hardened leather armour, or our caravan wagons. The South Hall houses animal-drawn vehicles, including Voortrekker wagons and some ox-wagons. On the 15th December 1838, 500 Voortrekkers formed their 64 wagons into a laager close to the bank of the Ncone River. Keep all guards and safety shields in place on pumps, around pump hoppers, on manure spreaders, tank wagons, power units, etc. As we arrived at the square the normal jumble of carts, wagons, stalls, and milling people that we saw every day greeted us. For years pressure groups have been calling on the authorities to force wagons to use the bypass rather than the town centre. The Council has six weeks to clean up its act or lose its licence to operate refuse wagons. The Tunis Ordinary was a popular rest stop for stagecoaches and wagons heading westward. I give the car a bit more gas, accelerate past a caravan of station wagons. We harnessed up horses after that and tied down the covers on wagons that no longer had anyone to steer them. Two long wagons appeared in the square, ridden by the priests in their flowing carmine robes. On and on and on they marched, until finally there came a stream of carts and wagons carrying supplies and parts of instruments of siege. The people of Sydney would thrill to the crack of the stock whip and the grinding wheels of the wool wagons. For the next two hours, the entire area was crawling with dozens of police vans, squad cars, riot troops and paddy wagons. Down the block, closer to where the protests had been, many of the protesters were cuffed and put into paddy wagons. Show More Sentences We are being treated like criminals, being handcuffed and taken away in paddy wagons. Tents were being moved into wagons and onto horseback, along with their contents. The press office responded to criticism by circling the wagons and freezing out reporters. All professional organizations are known to circle the wagons at the first signs of trouble. The Cuban people continue to circle the wagons around him in response to efforts to bring down his government. In 1861, horse-drawn wagons clip-clopped to the top of the newly completed carriage road in a plodding three hours. Here the traffic consisted not of coaches and carriages but of wagons and hand-carts. The wagons were all unpainted and plain, making them look dull compared to the bright colourful tents. The floats, although not many, were terrific, with some improvisation where wagons were not available. The Union campaign was going to commandeer wagons to haul their supplies but found fewer than 50 wagons in the entire valley. When we were living in wagons on the commons we had a bullet come through a windscreen. In order to overcome this problem, field trials of stainless wagons are in progress. We no longer need bur oak groves to act as safety nets for Conestoga wagons heading west. He ordered the wagons to be inspanned, but left where they were, and refused requests to allow them to be laagered. Trinity Rail GmbH produces all types of railway freight wagons, including intermodal, and tank wagons. The Germans offer station wagons, coupes and convertibles, even hatchbacks, in several series. When these show up in configurations such as convertibles and station wagons, the rest might as well pack up their slide rules or get on the bus. As the wagons were corralled into an even tighter circle at the Crescent, the Trust arrived like the cavalry in the nick of time. The train of merchant's wagons continued slowly into the gate, their wooden axles creaking loudly in the hot stagnant air. Because they could pull two wagons and a water tender if needed with a two-man crew, they cut desert freighting labor costs by half. Show More Sentences At the event, the company also showed off a new depot, which will house Grand Express and other wagons. For cleaning out hopper bottom wagons, we added a piece of wide rubber belting to the top of the push broom. The strikers pitched stones through grocery store windows, tipped wagons and pushcarts, and scattered and destroyed vendor produce. I leaned on the railing and watched teams of dockhands transferring crates to the waiting wagons. Still, a week later the draft horses were so exhausted they were set free, the wagons left to rot in the bush. There he shoed draft horses, fixed freight wagons, made repairs to machinery, and fabricated iron parts as needed. I am especially looking for a picture of one of the brewery's drays or wagons. The public health people have been circling the wagons to cover up the facts! They had used their sit down money to buy four battered station wagons. Today, 4Matic is available on all Mercedes sedans and wagons. The wheels of the heavily laden wagons ground deep ruts into the soil. There were big wagons carrying cotton bales to the mills from the enormous railway warehouses on Manchester Road and dripping hides from the fellmonger's to the tannery. Although railroads made the stagecoaches, freight wagons, and steamboats unprofitable and obsolete, virtually no one mourned the passing of these conveyances. It is a street in an expanding urban area which had been blighted by heavy wagons transporting materials and finished products for a large and noisy industrial operation. The wagons were a sign from Yosef that he had remembered the last Halacha that he learned with his father Yaakov, the Halacha of Egla Arufa, before they had separated. Even though mules could carry heavier loads, cost less to run and were more surefooted, they were increasingly used in harness to pull wagons, not as pack animals. They left Adelaide on 12 November 1879 with four wagons, four drays, two express wagons, 40 men with portable troughs and a year's supply of fodder. Under a lowering sky, the entourage crowds into two hertz station wagons for the sixty mile drive to Las Cruces. If they must, they could turn the wagons broadside to the wind and use them for cover, and their felted tents and sleeping sacks would keep them from freezing to death. They turned useless prairies into golden wheat fields, their wagons into powerful locomotives, and a savage wilderness into a network of commerce and trade. Show More Sentences The CFD was also fully mobilized using fire wagons pulled by horse teams. Farmers sent grain, fruit, and vegetables to the goldfields, and supplied oats and wheat to feed horses pulling wagons and coaches to and from the goldfields. We always clear the roads so that the milk wagons can get to the farms. Our regular bale mover would not lift high enough to load wagons. The scheme involves track large enough to take huge trains and wagons, which would carry heavy goods vehicles, taking lorries off the congested motorway system. Cars were still relatively new and many's the tale I've heard of wagons laden with hand-picked cotton that were so heavy the mules strained to pull the enormous load. Liquids are spread on fields with tank wagons or irrigation. This allows added flexibility when hooking up wagons with heavy tongues. In all seasons, droves of cattle, sheep, hogs, geese, turkeys and other livestock shared the busy road with wagons loaded with grain, barreled beef and pork. Children rode in a procession of omnibuses carrying flags, while farmers from nearby Lake County formed a column of farm wagons carrying produce they would donate to the fair. Phaethon willingly agreed, detaching his horses from the wagons. Farmers' trucks, which were towing their trailers, had to be immaculate, both inside and out, and the trailers and cattle wagons were cleansed to commercial kitchen standards. Stations were often the scene of innovations because they had problems in parcel handling, rolling stock shunting and above all wagons in marshalling yards. The sort of stuff that thimbleriggers and sleight-of-hand artists peddled off the backs of wagons to gawping farmhands and country bumpkins back in the 19th century. As early as 1903, 11 machine gun detachments had been formed with each consisting of six MG 01 Maxim guns, with horse drawn gun and ammunition wagons. It appears that the deceased was employed shunting coal wagons, and at about the time stated he was in the neighbourhood of the Arley pit with an engine and wagon. After yielding his blankets and sleeping spot in one of the wagons to another traveler who was ill, Langford tried to make himself comfortable on the ground in a buffalo robe. Railtrack said today it would not be in a position until tomorrow to say when the East Coast line would re-open, with several wagons and carriages remaining on the crash site. The Boers charged the hill four times, and were inspanning wagons preparatory to a retreat, when our men were forced to fall back owing to their reserve. Some groups who could not afford wagons pulled two-wheeled handcarts. Show More Sentences He got to work, and some other men came forward and unyoked those of the second waggon, so it was clear that the wagons were to be left as they stood. Paste cans were loaded into the wagons, brushes and pails, together with the paper that had been carefully laid out and counted, the night before, for each billposter. In its first official announcement, EWS said today it had ordered 300 new coal hopper wagons from the company as part of its continuing expansion plans. A hundred years ago, during the Tsarist Russian occupation, kibitkas, or horse wagons, were leaving the Citadel's gallows filled with Polish political prisoners. Otherwise this year's gathering will remain untouched featuring everything from traditional fairground rides to traction engines, steamrollers and wagons. She kept low and watched the wagons disappear, but a flicker of movement caught her eye and she turned her head in time to see a red spider logo on the back of a jacket. The threatened York rail manufacturer has been thrown a much-needed lifeline by rail freight company EWS, which has ordered a further 220 coal wagons. The programme relied almost exclusively on picturesque images from the long-gone era of horse-drawn wagons, roadside tinsmithery and jolly beggarmen singing for their supper. Clad in only a loose shirt and white underbreeches, she burst into the courtyard filled with wagons and pack animals laden with supplies and the trunks of nine thousand men. At that moment the first of the early morning wagons rolled thunderingly, creakingly, sqeakingly by the garden wall, and without a word the two lovers dressed. Less soil compaction occurs with irrigation than with tank wagons. Cowboys rarely, if ever, ate pasta and Italy's history, while rich and storied, is bereft of tales of cattle rustlers, gunslingers and homesteaders circling the wagons. Avoid loaded truck traffic and overloaded combines and grain wagons. Picking my way between fully exposed pie wagons and wide-loads, I did, however, feel quite fit and trim myself. The children played musical chairs in the living room, miniature golf in the back yard, and rode wagons made with skates, two-by-fours, and apple boxes. They park behind the cottages on the back lane, which was constructed to allow night-soil wagons to collect the waste from the one-time earth closets. This meant the destruction of Boer farms, the confiscation of horses, cattle and wagons and the rounding up of the inhabitants, usually women and children. Because they could pull two wagons and a water tender if needed with a two-man crew, a teamster and a swamper, they cut desert freighting labor costs by half. The North Korean side said the accident was between two train wagons that were being shunted on a siding, not a collision of two trains as had been previously believed. I've requisitioned more oil from Cosh, and expect wagons any day. Show More Sentences House Speaker John Boehner and other gop leaders have circled the wagons, vouching for Scalise. Anyone interested in joining the procession of decorated wagons, morris dancers, bands and queens will be welcome, including walkers and vintage vehicles. Come on, momma, now is the hour for the family to join hands and metaphorically circle the wagons. Product was delivered via the Piebald and Skewbald horses pulling covered wagons. Ten 4-wheel hose wagons, three with ballbearing axels and one with roller-bearing axels, all manufactured in the city. The seasons are come to a stagnant stop, the trees blench and wither, the wagons role in the mica ruts with slithering harplike thuds. All night long, Dog heard the clip-clop of horses hauling the wagons to market. They knew the lineage of all the boys and girls who crowded into old cracky wagons, rode four to a horse or footed it out to the lake. Reducing friction was one of the major reasons for the success of railroads compared to wagons. Twelve wagons were loaded with stones, till each wagon weighed three tons, and the wagons were fastened together. These were all horse drawn or relied on gravity, with a stationary steam engine to haul the wagons back to the top of the incline. At the hitch-bars along the street a few heavy work-horses, harnessed to farm wagons, shivered under their blankets. The British troops broke ranks to loot the abandoned French wagons instead of pursuing the beaten foe. Accounts record the large number of wagons and barges which delivered the jointed timbers to Westminster for assembly. Since the HGV wagons are not covered, fire sensors are located on the loading wagon and in the tunnel. The company pioneered the use of larger, more economic goods wagons than were usual in Britain. The GWR provided special wagons, handling equipment and storage facilities for its largest traffic flows. Special wagons were produced for many other different commodities such as gunpowder, aeroplanes, milk, fruit and fish. In the early years of the GWR its wagons were painted brown, but this changed to red before the end of the broad gauge. The first goods wagons to be fitted with vacuum brakes were those that ran in passenger trains carrying perishable goods such as fish. Show More Sentences All wagons for public traffic had a code name that was used in telegraphic messages. Trains were hauled by company steam locomotives between the two towns, though private wagons and carriages were allowed. In many parts of the world they still pull wagons for basic hauling and transportation. So they had to take me from there in an ambulance.... I remember my dad and uncle used to call them meat wagons. Joining the Royal Army Medical Corps as a private, he drove ambulance wagons in France and later in Greece. One of them, led by general Platen in September resulted in the loss of 2,000 Russians, mostly captured, and the destruction of 5,000 wagons. Freight locomotives and wagons were not passed to ROSCOs, instead being owned directly by the freight train operators. Whilst many carriages and wagons were built in the workshops, only two locomotives were actually constructed at Oswestry. These wagons on these tramlines would be pulled by horse over wooden rails, which later were replaced by wrought iron. The wagons were loaded on and off with the use of stationary steam engines. In the late 1700s, traffic in the United States was RHT based on teamsters' use of large freight wagons pulled by several pairs of horses. Various safety announcements are played and the train departs once the loading wagons are stowed. Passenger vehicles are carried in a car shuttle train, made up of closed wagons. In 1865 the railway ordered 10 more wagons and bought two carriages from the Ryde Pier Company. Carrier could carry up to 14 wagons on two tracks, each having a maximum load of four tons. It usually includes both powered and unpowered vehicles, for example locomotives, railroad cars, coaches, and wagons. It did not take long to discover that wheeled wagons could be used to carry heavy loads. Her wagon tour has been likened to several archeological wagon finds and legends of deities parading in wagons. Terry Gunnell and many others have noted various archaeological finds of ritual wagons in Denmark dating from 200 AD and the Bronze Age. They lacked animals to ride and draft animals that could pull wagons and plows. Show More Sentences Heavy draft horses developed out of a need to perform demanding farm work and pull heavy wagons. This involved using wagons, pulled by a steam engine, on iron rails laid on a level roadbed. Much hay was originally cut by scythe by teams of workers, dried in the field and gathered loose on wagons. Forage harvesters collect and chop the plant material, and deposit it in trucks or wagons. The adjacent alleys were choked with tethered wagons, the teams reversed and nuzzling gnawed corn-ears over the tail-boards. Scotland's last pit pony retired in 1994 and animals have not been used to haul coal wagons anywhere in Britain for more than a decade. Leinster would circle the wagons, Connacht would repay favours for McDonagh and McCague would be left sweating it out. This is establishment thinking, circling the wagons around yes-men and punishing anyone that dares to take a stand for good public policy. Taxis at Dubai airports will now be family-size station wagons to provide better space for passengers and baggage. Vehicles such as taxis, auto-rickshaws and trekker station wagons remained off the roads in Guwahati, the state's principle city. By the end of production in 1951, only 641 station wagons had been produced and more than 600 of these had been exported. The train has covered car-carrying wagons and couchette cars, with compartments. Roma and Zingaro, two wooden wagons with rustic seating, served as our bedrooms for the weekend. The Zulus came over the hills in waves, but the Voortrekkers shot them down from behind their wagons. For the first time ever, patrons refused to be led into paddy wagons, setting off a three-day uprising that launched the gay rights movement. Under Stalin, paddy wagons disguised as bread trucks carried millions off to the Gulag. I'd shot a gun once before in something I'd done, but no lassoing or driving wagons. The wagons rev up, rattling along the road, bleeping again as they reverse. The company was persuaded to install this train ferry service for the transportation of goods wagons across the Firth of Forth from Burntisland in Fife to Granton. Dennis Eagle, who make bin wagons, are headquartered off the A452 on the Heathcote Ind Estate, south of Calor Gas, in east Warwick towards Leamington. Show More Sentences Even under normal circumstances, the mix of carts, wagons, and pedestrians in the undersized alleys was subject to frequent traffic jams and gridlock. This successfully hauled wagons but was so heavy that it broke many rails. At the same time the provincial government has sent in a police force, about 30 officers, a riot squad really, two paddy wagons, to arrest the elderly and the youth. A secondary ejector or crosshead vacuum pump is used to maintain the vacuum in the system against the small leaks in the pipe connections between carriages and wagons. She was a quite biddable creature and good-hearted, but she had a flow of talk that was as steady as a mill, and made your head sore like the drays and wagons in a city. As the Britons' losses increased, the Britons tried to retreat, but their flight was blocked by the ring of wagons and the Britons were massacred. The miscellaneous setting of horses, dogs, saddles, wagons, guns, and cow-punchers' paraphernalia oppressed the metropolitan eyes of the wrecked sportsman. The traffic on the line quickly grew to the point where the horses could no longer haul the empty slate wagons back to the quarries quickly enough to meet demand. But the quiet, responsible sort of middle class English survivalists who say that supermarkets will run out of food within two days if their supply wagons stopped rolling. The Beeching Cuts, in contrast to passenger services, greatly modernised the goods sector, replacing inefficient wagons with containerised regional hubs. Stakeholders in the household and personal care industry are circling the wagons to refute findings in a paper co-written by the Silent Spring Institute. Today''s estate cars are much more luxury vehicles, a far cry from those early days when they were usually referred to as station wagons or shooting brakes. The graves contain especially finely made pottery, animal bones, usually pork, sometimes gold rings or sheets, in exceptional cases miniature wagons. Seated on the left, the driver preferred that other wagons pass him on the left so that he could be sure to keep clear of the wheels of oncoming wagons. After Awdry wrote The Three Railway Engines, he built Christopher a model of Edward, and some wagons and coaches, out of a broomstick and scraps of wood. Examples from Classical Literature The thoroughfares were clogged by wagons laden with furniture and other spoils. In the familiar clang of the locomotive bell, and the movement of railroad wagons which were engaged in haulage for Leaping Horse. The men, too, who work in the gardens or drive the henequen wagons wear nothing but the breech-cloth and soup-plate straw hats. A train consisted of twenty-five wagons, all in charge of one man, who was known as the wagon master. It was not surprising that some of the soldiers were already dead when they were taken out of the rough, springless wagons. The chaos about the trains was straightening out, and the men were corralling the wagons, and unharnessing the mules and horses. The line of the enemy's retreat was strown with abandoned baggage, wagons and artillery. It creeped and crawled among the wagons and carts and horses to Smithfield street. After the canes are cut they are hauled to the mill or sugarhouse on wagons. Quesada's dorados had gone behind the wagons to currycomb and further polish their new horses. Only last year twelve Boer wagons appeared upon the Katanga border and were, contrary to all international law, warned off. Near the head of the train were his own two wagons, and beside the first walked Seth Wright and Keaton, in low, earnest converse. Colonel Keifer, in command of four hundred men, started with ninety wagons for Nashville. Gen. Daniels, commanding our forces at Kinston, sent out wagons and ambulances to convey them within our lines. Deck was studying up some way to extricate the wagons from their miry plight. Supt. Doherty assembled 150 men in Randolph street and seventy wagons employed on First ward streets. He takes as the live load for a bridge two such engines, followed by a train of wagons covering the span. Our wagon train had four hundred big government wagons, each drawn by six mules. I could make that appointment, saddle-sore and weary as I was, but I doubted we could get the wagons there. They believed the range might yet show a rift at this end which their wagons could traverse. Show More Sentences But there were kopjes ahead, sown with fierce dopper Boers, and those tempting wagons were only to be reached over their bodies. We travelled from Merced to this place in our own wagons, pitching our tents every night. It was soon clear that he could not haul wagons over the road, and he proposed to go without wagons and double-team his artillery. We rode there and back in the big government wagons, each wagon being drawn by a team of six mules. A shackle and links hang from the end of the drawbar for attachment to ordinary wagons. The men carried rations, with some forage, and wagons were sent back across the Atchafalaya. The teamsters there might be extortionate, as it was a double trip for the wagons. Just over the crest of the ridge we came upon their combat wagons and a field gun. I can easily descend with the cavalry, but how to get the wagons down is a puzzler. This gun also shelled the wagons as they came into camp, necessitating their halting under cover and coming in later. The mountains were steep and sometimes we had to unyoke our cattle and drive them down, letting the wagons down by ropes. Four fat horses and four wagons started from Goodfields with the churchgoers. Presently they went back and turned their wagons into the siding and began to unhitch. For the women there were waiting big two-horse wagons, which set off at a gallop as fast as they were filled. In crossing a small ravine, an axletree of one of the wagons was broken. The woods was full of teams and wagons, hitched everywheres, feeding out of the wagon-troughs and stomping to keep off the flies. With him were two wagons laden with goods, which he was transporting to Pretoria. They crept along slowly, their wagons loaded from baseboard to roof. The clean sand is chuted from these bins directly into cars or wagons. The iron about the wagons, and the chains were blistering to the touch. Show More Sentences The rarefy of the atmosphere continued to affect the wood-work of the wagons, and the wheels were incessantly falling to pieces. Because Lord Chelmsford planned only a temporary stop at Isandlwana, he made no effort to fortify the camp or set up a laager with the wagons. When I was a child, vacations down the coast were pleasant trips in beach wagons stuffed with suitcases, camping gear and kids. I had only to close my eyes to hear the rumbling of the wagons in the dark, and to be again overcome by that obliterating strangeness. The Abergele rail disaster of 1868, marked with a memorial in the town, happened when an Irish Mail train hit unsecured wagons on the line. Find more words! 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