"Shipload" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... could have brought in a shipload, instead of a boatload, of fruit, Mr. Repton. They will be of immense benefit to the sick but, unfortunately, there is scarcely a person on the Rock that is not more or less affected and, if your thirty boxes were multiplied by a hundred, it ...
— Held Fast For England - A Tale of the Siege of Gibraltar (1779-83) • G. A. Henty
... be idle to represent that the amigo played his pranks upon that shipload of long-suffering people with final impunity. The time came when they not only said something must be done, but actually did something. It was by the hand of one of the amigo's sweetest and kindest friends, namely, that elderly ...
— The Daughter of the Storage - And Other Things in Prose and Verse • William Dean Howells |
