United States or Laos ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Ivan Mironov's commercial method consisted in buying from the stores a cord of wood and dividing it into five cartloads, and then driving about the town, selling each of these at the price the stores charged for a quarter of a cord. That unfortunate day Ivan Mironov drove out very early with half a cartload, which he soon sold.
"But still," I put in, "to feel the burden of life is not a bad thing for people's characters." "Perhaps not," said Alpha. "But to be crushed under a cartload of bricks isn't likely to do one much good, is it? Why, Omega's a wealthy man, and d'you know, he must live on about a third of his income.
Wristlets, watches, spy-glasses, chocolate, cigarettes, were now as common as in ordinary times they were rare. Heliographic and telegraphic instruments by the cartload. No doubt about it, Roodewal came at an opportune moment. Roberts was pressing Botha hard in front, and this stunning blow at his lines of communication compelled him to pause.
The labourer has, as I have said, little appreciation of the invisible or what does not appeal strongly to his senses; he cannot understand, for instance, that a small bag of chemical fertilizer, in the form of a grey, inoffensive powder, can contain as great a potentiality for the nutrition of crops as a cartload of evil-smelling material from the farmyard; nor is he aware that, in the case of the latter, he has to load and unload 90 pounds or thereabouts of worthless water in every 100 pounds with which he deals.
Fifty to a hundred men with adequate equipment could have gotten the thing up in a summer. It was only by forcing himself to think in terms of spadeful after spadeful of earth, cartload after cartload creaking behind straining beasts, timber after timber cut with axes and dressed with adzes, stone after stone and brick after brick, that he could appreciate it.
'If only one could be sure that you wouldn't die, you could stay here as our farm-hand. The poor fellow jumped up from his seat and walked to the door, dragging his foot. 'Why should I die? he cried, 'I am quite well, and when I have a bit to eat I can do the work of two. Give me barszcz and I will chop up a cartload of wood for you. Try me for a week, and I will plough all those fields.
Papa is amazingly tickled with the article on Thomson; thinks that show up of Johnson is very lively; and now heaven be good to us! he has come to the critique on himself: "Of all the rubbish which we have had from Mr. Tomkins, we do protest and vow that this last cartload is" &c. Ah, poor Tomkins! but most of all, ah! poor Mrs.
"A brushing Fox in yonder Wood, Secure to find we seek; For why, I carry'd sound and good, A Cartload there last Week. And a Hunting we will go."
Stone Farm, like the poor of the parish, did not buy its herring until after the autumn, when it was as dry as sticks and cost almost nothing. At that time of year, herring was generally plentiful, and was sold for from twopence to twopence-halfpenny the fourscore as long as the demand continued. After that it was sold by the cartload as food for the pigs, or went on to the dungheap.
I know that he needed money and that Franklin, having no funds, provided the sea fighter from his own purse. "Commodore Jones had brought with him a cartload of mail from captured British ships. In it were letters to me from Margaret. "'Now you are near me and yet there is an impassable gulf between us, she wrote. 'We hear that the seas are overrun with pirates and that no ship is safe.
Word Of The Day