Pleased at finding a man who spoke English, the lieutenant told him he had come to buy some turtle and get a boatload of young cocoanuts, and showed him the tobacco and knives intended for payment.
The conditions of the cutting off of the brigantine were faithfully observed by the contracting parties, and long ere night fell the last boatload of plunder had been taken ashore.
As boatload after boatload of Russians attempted to land, we either sank them by shots from our guns or swept them with a salvo of bullets from our Maxims; yet as soon as we had hurled back one landing party others took its place.
The Chinese, attracted by the ease with which he had made that gain, laded a fine boatload of wooden noses the following year, and returned to Manila.
January 27, a violent north wind sunk a boatload of Joloan captives who were fleeing from Manila, six of whom were captured.
When the first boatload of redeemed captives landed at Marseilles a cry of thanksgiving rose in Christendom.
Then, gradually, the legend grew till it was a remarkably full boatload that landed, in A.
There they stood, eager yet patient, until the last boatload left the land; then, with a rush, they poured up into the citadel.
He landed the officers and the crew, in boatload after boatload, upon the shore, and left them to shift for themselves.
We have a boatload of goods from the land for the vessel, upon which no duty has been paid.
The unfortunate boatload of marketers could do no more than invoke God's protection, and bail out the water as fast as it poured over the gunwale.
About midnight on 7th January a boatload of men boarded the Spanish vessel and overpowered the sailors, raised the anchors, and set sail.
Running boatload after boatload of men to the land side, he brought them back by stealth, leading the garrison to expect an attack from that quarter.
To-morrow there will be a brave spectacle, lad, when the last boatload of redcoats has pushed off, and we can stand on the bank and cheer and hoot to our heart's content without fear of being clapped into a guardhouse.
Greene and I watched the lastboatload put off from this side.
I shall start for Valley Forge when the last boatload of soldiers puts out from the shore.
How many came we do not know, but shipping records of the colonial period show that boatload after boatload left the southern and eastern shores of Ireland for the New World.
Received boatload of bricks for New Zealand, sent for a boatload of firewood.
On the 11th of March, the wind still hanging to the south, I took some hands on shore to cut a boatload of wood and fill our water casks.
Received boatload of water, people cutting wood on shore.
Received a boatload of bricks for New Zealand and stowed them away.
Once, by incredible exertion, I managed to get my boatload as far up the river as Lechlade.
In two hours more as happy a boatload as ever floated was springing before a fresh breeze toward the cape.
Just as the last boatload had been got on board, Walter and his party appeared, not having seen any smugglers.
He saw the first boatload of the newcomers pull in to the landing rock, and he gazed shyly and yet gladly at the faces of the men and women who were to be his townsfolk.
It was near dusk when they came down again through the village, where the last boatload from the ship had just landed.
Bout that time Massa Gibbs run out of corn to feed he stock and he took my daddy and a bunch of niggers and left to buy a boatload of corn.
Niggers in Louisiana say Queen Elizabeth sent a boatload of gold to America to give the free men, but we never seed any of it.
Shortly after these Athabasca Indians had left us I saw a large boatload of men coming across the lake towards our village.
A few weeks after, another boatload of men called to have a talk with me.
Said Uncle Jake: "I'd rather see they come in wi' a boatload o' herring than any boat along the beach.
We all wished luck to the Shooting Star--to that cranky oldboatload of pluck, ill-luck, and ancient desperation.
The "stool's" message was relayed to the Everett authorities and, after being revised by the advocates of the open shop, it finally reached the deputies in the form of a report that a boatload of I.
Lieutenant Hedges of the Seattle Police force that there was a boatload of I.
Charles Tennant, captain of the detective force of the Seattle police department, testified to having telephoned to the sheriff's office in Everett on November 5th to give the information that a boatload of I.
A cowering woman with a boatload of English soldiers palpitated under the darkness.
Gaspard went down to his landing, and watched boatload follow boatload, until the river was swarming with little craft pulling directly for Beauport.
One day it was a vast number of empty water-casks; another day, more than a hundred barrels of farina; yet another day, a boatload of beans and one of lumber.
The girl translated one remark that came up to them from the boatload of pursuers: "The old man is waiting back there.
Here is a boatload of my lads coining alongside, roaring with song and as drunk as lords.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "boatload" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
