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Updated: May 16, 2025
"Barny, my Trojan, how is every cart-load of you?" "How is Granua Waile, Barny?" "Why, thin, holy music, did you never see Barny Dhal afore? Clear off from about me, or, by the sweets of rosin, I'll play the devil an' brake things. 'You're welcome, Barny! an' 'How are you, Barny? Why thin, piper o' Moses, don't I know I'm welcome, an' yit you must be tellin' me what everybody knows!
This satisfaction of station as said grew out of the slight exertion necessary for all the wants of life, with unlimited choice of the finest land on the continent; the waters alive with fish and aquatic fowl; rabbits and prairie fowl at times by actual cart-load; elk not far, and countless buffalo behind, furnishing meat, bedding, clothing and shoes to any who could muster a cart or go in search; the woods and plains in season, ripe with delicious wild fruit, for present use or dried for winter, the whole backed by abundant breadstuffs.
He must travel thousands of miles and he must pay his passage and his hotel-bills. At home he could pay with products of his farm. But he could not well take a hundred dozen eggs and a cart-load of hams with him to satisfy the greed of the shipping agent of Venice or the inn-keeper of the Brenner Pass. These gentlemen insisted upon cash.
'But you can buy me the books, Susan; and you will, when you know why I want them. 'Well, Miss, and why do you want 'em? replied Nipper; adding, in a lower voice, 'If it was to fling at Mrs Pipchin's head, I'd buy a cart-load. 'Paul has a great deal too much to do, Susan, said Florence, 'I am sure of it.
If having got it he does not become satisfied, I shall in addition, give him, him that is, that will discover Arjuna to me, a cart-load of jewels and gems. If that does not satisfy the person who discovers Arjuna to me, I will give him a century of kine with as many vessels of brass for milking those animals. I will give a hundred foremost of villages unto the person that discovers Arjuna to me.
Her stately rooms were aglow with immense fire-places, each holding a small cart-load of hissing and crackling wood, the reflected light gleaming brightly from the shining fire-irons, while a number of brass sconces the picturesque chandeliers of the past polished to the similitude of gold, were softly shimmering overhead.
'When your mind requires to be refreshed by change of occupation, said Mr Pecksniff, 'Thomas Pinch will instruct you in the art of surveying the back garden, or in ascertaining the dead level of the road between this house and the finger-post, or in any other practical and pleasing pursuit. There are a cart-load of loose bricks, and a score or two of old flower-pots, in the back yard.
It must be borne in mind that specimens of genuine old work are by no means common; the abundance which this street and other localities can supply to order by the cart-load, are ingenious adaptations of fragments of old work pieced and placed together for a general effect; but which are sometimes ludicrous, from the mixture of bits of all ages and style in one cabinet or sideboard.
And now his grandmother's furniture began to appear; and a great cart-load of it from her best bedroom was speedily arranged in Willie's late quarters, and as soon as they were ready for her, Mrs Macmichael set out in a post-chaise to fetch her mother. Willie was in a state of excitement until she arrived, looking for her as eagerly as if she had been a young princess.
You know you're in league with the Russians. I have had my eye on you this long time. Some of these days we'll be down upon you like a cart-load of bricks." "You a very hard man, Major Shervinton, sare very unkind to poor Joe. I offer you bread every day for nothing; you say No. Why not take Joe's bread?" "Because Joe's a scoundrel to offer it. Do you suppose I am to be bribed in that way?
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