In the tonneau of the big car rested several bags and wraps.
I think we may as well leave our bags on check at this depot and look around here," was the answer.
I thought of the papers and bags we had stored in the wagon that night when we fled from Topham.
Uncle Seth cut the painter, and drawing her up to a convenient ladder, we began to carry down our various belongings, finishing with the big bags that hours before I had packed so carefully in the bottom of the wagon.
I put out my hand and leaned over the bags to touch Gleazen, the nearest of the sleepers, when Abe again pressed my arm.
This story is exciting widespread interest, both as a powerful novel and genuine love-story, and as a graphic picture of the West in the adventurous days of saddle-bags and circuit-riding preachers.
Never an orange or an apple was pared on her premises when the peeling was not carefully garnered--dried on newspaper, and neatly stored away in paper bags for sick-room uses.
When fully dried, they are carefully packed in bags and covered up with dry sand, and are thus ready for the market.
Thousands of bags of flour, boxes of biscuits, tinned meats and sardines covered the ground on all sides, while the inhabitants of the village were loading carts and handbarrows.
Ali Baba then went in search of his asses, and having brought them to the rock, took as many bags of gold coin as they could carry, and put them on their backs, covering them with some loose fagots of wood.
Sancho Panza sat his ass like a patriarch, carrying with him his saddle-bags and leather bottle; and all his thoughts were of the Isle which his master had promised him.
It was not too nice to hustle the bags Of the beggar, and flutter his dirty rags; 'Twas so bold that it feared not to play its joke With the doctor's wig or the gentleman's cloak.
These were entirely humbled now, and rolled on the ground like three bags of rice!
Some bags of biscuit were taken from the bread-room, and some casks of wine got ready to put on the boats and raft.
So I got out, still toting five or six bags and bundles of assorted sizes and shapes, and tried all the other doors in sight.
Our best bags are made by the stalking or still-hunting method.
With another look up the road, where the sunlight was fast fading, she took up the wet bags which protected her dress, and passed under the shed, glad to sit down and rest her aching limbs.
With her bags on her arm she went out across the dry grass to where a little black mule, not much larger than a goat, was standing.
Three oil bags were made of duck, half filled with oakum saturated with oil, and hung over the side forward, amidships, and on the weather quarter.
The oil bags were replenished every half hour during the night, all hands taking turn about to go on deck and fill them, crawling along the deck on hands and knees and secured with a rope in case of being washed overboard.
A hand plunged into one of my bags and emerged with several bars of chocolate, the wrappers of which were shorn off before the chocolate was well out of the bag.
When the baggage squad had finished its task and replaced all unsuspected articles, the bags were sealed and sent on to await the owner, whose real troubles now began.
Sacking, formerly used for making bags in which to ship potatoes and other vegetables, has given way to it.
The few passengers filed into the customs room, where a corps of skilled mechanics prised open the contents of bags and trunks.
An uncommon virtue in curing all kinds of complaints is ascribed to these pebbles, small bags of which are brought home by the pilgrims, and distributed to their respective relations and friends.
The carpet bags are sewed up and the buttons put in by machines.
The sewing is done by hand; making the bags requires but a short time, though it is heavy work.
She did not know how many pounds she gathered, but said she got three large bags full every day in good weather.
Carrying bags of feathers, weighing them, assorting and filling other bags, he considered too heavy.
They are always busy just before the sailing of vessels, as they supply many vessels with bags to carry grain.
The bags are considered better than those made by machinery.
There used to be employed far more women than now in making bags to hold dairy or bag salt.
While working in the snuff, women wear caps, but are so covered with it that they might be mistaken for bags of snuff.
A regulation that struck me as being very unjust was, that if a girl learns in their factory and goes elsewhere to seek work, she cannot be taken into their factory again, unless she makes eight or ten dozen bagsfor them without pay.
I was told they employ seventy girls, and make from ninety to one hundred dozen bags a day.
At a sugar refinery a man told us, some women are employed to make bags for containing char, i.
Then, still regarding the bags as of no account, she took one out.
Armorel drew up some of the chains and played with them, tying them round her wrists and letting them slip through her fingers--the pretty delicate things, which spoke of wealth almost as loudly as the bags of guineas.
My dear boy, to paint such pictures is worth many such bags of precious stones, if you will only think so.
To live for nothing than to add more bags to that tray in the great sea-chest!
Then she put the tray in its place and laid the bags in the tray, and locked the old sea-chest.
There was another Surprise waiting for her--even a greater Surprise, perhaps, than that of the bags of gold.
My dear, if these great riches are to drag your soul down into hell, it would be better if they were all thrown into the sea, the silver punch-bowls and the bags of gold and all.
The silver in the cupboard: the lace: the bags of gold?
Not the punch-bowls, or the lace, or the bales of silk, but these bagsfull of gold constituted her wealth.
It was she who made the little brown bags of canvas: she, usurping the place of Family Chief or Sheik, took from her sons and grandsons all the money that they made.
Nobody ever took anything out of it: nobody looked into it: nobody knew, until Ursula counted the money and made bags for it, what there was in the chest.
The vehicle held a dozen bags filled with potatoes, every one of which Dave had planted and dug as his hardened hands bore proof.
Now then, you get those bags of taters down to Swain’s warehouse and back again afore six o’clock, or you’ll get no supper.
Throw a hay tarpaulin over the box, so the bags won’t get soaked, that’s all.
He sank down among the bags and the straw almost out of sight.
As a commercial man, he felt that the mail-bags were not to be trifled with, and he resolved to memorialise the Post Office on the subject, the very instant he reached London.
This folly is highly relished by the sages on the Divan within, who look on with delight till all the bags of money and plates of rice have disappeared.
They are then led forth to a large tree in the court, where a heap of pellises of various qualities lie on the pavement, shaken out of bags in which they were brought.
The bags are then brought out, and laid on the flags in front of the Divan.
On these occasions men bring in small leathernbags of piasters, which they pile on the floor, till they form heaps three or four feet high, and ten or twelve long.
Medley and I were not long in cleaning ourselves and putting on our Sunday best, and with our working clothes in our bagswe stepped into Captain Bland's boat.
I could just make out through the gloom that the boat was no longer in her place, and presently I saw several figures carrying some bags go forward and disappear from the spritsail yard.
I'm a safe carle, and can spae fortunes as well as blaw up thae green bags wi' thriftless wind.
The sledge carried an unusually heavy load, and among the provision bags he noted some iron drills and a small wooden box such as giant-powder is packed in.
Then stack the flour and sugar bags where they're kept.
We had great difficulty in getting through, from the quantity of dead timber, which has torn our saddle-bags and clothes to pieces.
Shoeing horses, and repairing saddles and bags to carry our provisions back.
I find our saddle-bags and harness are so much torn and broken that I cannot proceed until they are repaired.
I am compelled to have some of the horses shod to-day, and also to have a number of saddle-bags mended, which were torn by the scrub yesterday.
Started at a quarter to eight with Thring and Auld, taking all the water-bags full, also King and Billiatt to take back the horses that carry the water.
I have sent King on with him, with a pack-horse carrying twobags of water for the horse that carries him to the Stirling.
One stout fellow came running up, armed with spears, and loaded with fish and bags filled with something to eat.
I am very vexed about the water-bags turning out so badly, as I was placing great dependence on them for carrying me through.
I have a deal of work to do to the plan, and our bags require mending.
Sent King and Nash with the horses that carried the water-bags back to the depot, while I and the other two, at twenty minutes to eight o'clock a.
I am nearly in a fix with a long journey before me, the horses unable to do more than two nights without water, and the water-bags losing half their contents in one day's journey.
The odor from these bags was very strong and made one feel sick until they became used to it.
Another costly present was received from the Viceroy of Canton, and consisted of four bags of pearls, each bag containing several thousands.
There were ten pairs of shoes, silk embroidered handkerchiefs, little bags for betel nuts, and bags for tobacco, all exquisitely done.
