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They came across from the island of Groix three shiploads, and they stormed the fort and sacked St. Julien yonder, and they started to burn St. Gildas you can see the marks of their bullets on my house yet; but the men of Bannalec and the men of Lorient fell upon them with pike and scythe and blunderbuss, and those who did not run away lie there below in the gravel pit now thirty-eight of them."
If a private merchant, at his own risk, took a cargo of rifles to some Southern port, that act to Northern eyes was an act of English interference of favor shown to the South by England as a nation; but twenty shiploads of rifles sent from England to the North merely signified a brisk trade and a desire for profit.
Not a gun is left in the gunsmiths' shops in Dublin, and I am told that shiploads are brought in from America weekly. The people are perfectly right in resisting eviction, but Parliament ought to interpose. We must get rid of the landlords, and we must establish compulsory education. Then the priests will go like smoke before the wind. Free trade is another cause of the troubles.
They've no use for such things normally, because no nearby planet will deal with them or let them land. But they built a space-ship and came here. They went in orbit around Weald. They asked to trade for shiploads of food. They offered any price in heavy metals, gold, platinum, iridium, and so on. They talked from orbit by vision communicators. They could be seen to be blueskins.
They wait for ransom they have demanded. If it comes not, they will burn and harry all Ulster." "How many ships, then?" asked Dalfin, on hearing that threat. "Two ships, lord, and great ones." The prince laughed at the man. "What, burn all Ulster with two shiploads of men? That is a great boast which we shall not care for. Where is my father, the king and where is the muster?"
And now that the rice fields of South Carolina constantly required more workers the trade in slaves increased. Whole shiploads were brought at a time. They were bought and sold like cattle, and if they died at their unhealthy work it mattered little, for they were cheap, and there were plenty more where they came from. At first there had been no intention of making two provinces of Carolina.
The large number of islands, bays, and promontories on the Maine coast bearing distinctive Celtic names attests the presence and influence of Irish people in this section in colonial times. In 1720, Robert Temple from Cork brought to Maine five shiploads of people, mostly from the province of Munster.
Real jewellery is very like sham jewellery after all, and the "Artemus" vein in Charles Browne's mental constitution the vein of humour, whose source was a strong contempt of all things false, mean, shabby, pretentious, and only external of bunkum and Barnumisation must have seen a gigantic speculation realising shiploads of dollars if the Tower could have been taken over to the States, and exhibited from town to town the Stars and Stripes flying over it with a four-horse lecture to describe the barbarity of the ancient British Barons and the cuss of chivalry.
Fortunes have been made in the manufacture of the equipment for exercise: Indian clubs, dumb bells, and whole shiploads of so-called sporting goods, the object of all of which is to enable the active man to get some relief from the ache of his muscles or nerves due to lack of exercise. But the man of muscle is, as we have said, frequently a man of brains.
Shiploads of granite had been brought from Norway, and stone fleets had been sunk in the channel, but the insatiable quicksands had swallowed them as fast as they could be deposited, the tide rolled as freely as before, and the bold pirates sailed forth as gaily as ever to prey upon the defenceless trading vessels and herring-smacks of the States.
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