waggonload

Updated: May 23, 2025

He carries with him cooks, confectioners and laundresses, a waggonload of plate, a wardrobe of laced and embroidered suits, and much rich tent furniture, of which the patterns have been chosen by a committee of fine ladies. While the hostile armies watched each other in Flanders, hostilities were carried on with somewhat more vigour in other parts of Europe.

Baron Thomas Babington Macaulay Macaulay - The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 4

Hans, I should say, was that same Hottentot who had been the companion of most of my journeyings since my father's day. But of this journey we did not dream in those days. For the rest Hans was a most entirely unprincipled person, but as the Boers say, "as clever as a waggonload of monkeys." Also he drank when he got the chance.

Henry Rider Haggard - She and Allan