But to the chief, in case he should require his services again, he gave an extravagant present and left bales of cloth for the carriers upon their return.
The carriers were kept on the native shuffling lope by the aid of attentions from the askaris.
Through the humid air came the faint chant of carriersat the end of a journey; swelled louder and ceased.
Accordingly he negotiated with the nearest village for carriers and set out, striking due west, thus approaching the Wongolo territory towards the southern boundary.
With the carriers bearing the mail was a case of “imprisoned stars” (rockets) and a special cinema outfit, so that Birnier felt that he could afford to explode the last manifestation of magic which remained to him.
Then, after giving final instructions to Sergeant Ludwig and the various native non-commissioned officers, he ordered the jabbering men to march, with the carriers staggering on at the point of the bayonet.
Bakuma cried out in terror and thecarriers gasped fearfully.
So the carriers cut a circle and built a zareba and the messenger was swallowed by the green wall bearing presents of two rifles.
The carriers had arrived and the green tent was pitched, invitingly cool against the grey flood of the river.
The men ate their rations, but thecarriers were too exhausted to eat; they drank water and lay prostrate.
But just beyond the last hut, waiting by the path, was a group of women loaded with the soldiers’ gear; and beside them were some carriers bearing his green tent and apparently all his equipment.
This lead ore, since it was similar to that of Goslar, they put into their carts and carried to Goslar, for the same carriers were accustomed to carry lead from that city.
Would not thesecarriers supply their own manufacturers?
No; and this exclusion from the colonies of other manufactures, and leaving her merchants the sole carriers of the world, produced a greater vent for her manufactures than the whole quantity consumed in the United States.
Winter came with snow and ice and cold winds, making it hard for the carriers to deliver their papers before the breakfast hour.
The following is one of a number of incidents that induced the president to include the carriers in the association.
But later, after many years of work, incident after incident came to the president of the wrong-doings of the carriers who occasionally sold extras.
The names applied in different parts of Europe and in India to the several kinds of Carriersall point to Persia or the surrounding countries as the source of this Race.
On the other hand, in carriers and runts, which have large bodies and long wings, eleven primary feathers have occasionally been observed.
In Carriers there is often a conspicuous difference in the degree of attenuation and curvature of the beak.
Barbs, in short, may be called short-beaked Carriers, bearing the same relation to Carriers that the Tronfo of Aldrovandi does to the common Runt.
Yet, if well-characterised Carriersand Barbs (see figs.
Indeed, certain carriersand runts pass into each other by such insensible gradations that an arbitrary line has to be drawn between them.
In those races which present some remarkable deviation of structure, such as in the tail of fantails, crop of pouters, beak of carriers and tumblers, &c.
Misled by the extraordinary shortness and form of the beak, I did not at first perceive the near affinity of this Race to that of Carriers until the fact was pointed out to me by Mr. Brent.
He gave the man strict charge to find out "the certain night, and the time of the night, when the carriers laded the Treasure from the King's Treasure House to Nombre de Dios.
The creek was bridged to allow the Porto Bello carriers to enter the town, and a small gatehouse or porter's lodge protected the way.
The stinging units spread through the woods, and shortly a steady procession of loaded carriers began to stream back through the hole.
She told the two carriers not to answer any questions as to what was in the bed.
Tow dipped in it was fastened to the heads of arrows, which thus became carriers of unquenchable flame.
The state constitution contained (and still contains) the provision that all common carriers enjoying right of way for public use shall carry the mineral, agricultural, and other productions of the state “on equal and reasonable terms.
The cars or carriers are made of two sugar barrels cut in half.
It has been frequently said by the police that if taxi companies and other common carriers would cooperate with the law more closely, there would be much less chance for the criminal to escape.
The most significant piece of labor legislation was the employers' liability law enacted in 1906, which imposed a liability upon common carriers engaged in interstate commerce for injuries sustained by employees in their service.
The law created a commission of five members empowered to investigate the operations of commoncarriers and order those who violated the law to desist.
Railroads and common carriers were compelled to provide separate accommodations for whites and blacks, "Jim Crow Cars," as they are called in popular parlance, and to furnish special seats in street railway cars.
They had the same troubles as the mail-carriers and a few more.
Yes, the mail-carriers had more success in less well-developed countries.
The body was then borne on the shoulders of the carriers to the museum enclosure which was near by, in front of the Chinili Kiosque.
These glass disks carry on them a certain number (not less than 16 or 20) tin-foil carriers which may or may not have brass buttons upon them.
In front of them a disk of ebonite or glass, havingcarriers of metal fixed to its edge, was rotated by a winch.
Varley also constructed a multiple form of influence machine having six rotating disks, each having a number of carriers and rotating between field plates.
The glass plates are well varnished, and the carriers are placed on the outer sides of the two glass plates.
On a rotating glass or ebonite disk were placed carriers of tin-foil or metal buttons against which neutralizing brushes touched.
As therefore the disks revolve, these carriers travel in opposite directions, coming at intervals in opposition to each other.
They were obliged, when the carriers were bringing the meal to Pettigo, to guard it with their clubs, as the people of the adjacent parishes strove to take it by force, in which they sometimes succeeded, hunger making them desperate.
The roads crowded with carriers laden with rich manufactures, the perpetual concourse to and fro of pompous equipages.
The carriers hung about, but we ignored them as though they had been men of glass.
The utmost force we could rake up was two dilapidated Russian Skolte Lapps, who would ferry us in a canoe by the fjords and rivers to the Neiden, where we must trust to luck in finding carriers who would take us through overland.
It was vastly improbable that we should be able to get carriers for the few we had got.
It must be remembered, too, that if we two foreigners suffered badly from this plague of flies, our carriers were ten times more tormented.
Our carriersbrisked up; even the humpback straightened himself; and the pace quickened--to something close on three miles an hour.
They were good fellows these two new carriers of ours.
However, carriers or no carriers, it was a certain thing that we could get no more work out of these three Lapps, and we were rather ashamed of ourselves for having pressed willing men too hard already.
The carriers shouldered their loads again, and we knocked out our tobacco into the grass; but the caravan did not start till the two Lapps had come up and carefully stamped out any smoulder which might remain.
We came into another forest, where the air was heavy with mosquitoes, and the weary carriers could hardly drag one foot up to the other, and still on we plodded.
Our luggage was not heavy; two negro carriers on the Congo or the Gold Coast would have capered with the whole lot of it; but through a wish for long quick marches, we had made it up into three light loads.
We were marching light, in the strictest sense of the word, and everything else that we possessed was left to the tender care of the other two carriersat the rest-hut.
At last, after much pressing, it was admitted that we might possibly find carriers for our transport at the other side of the Varanger fjord, but at the same time it was pointed out that we probably should not.
It seemed there was a man with influence who had a farm farther on, and if any one could collect carriers to take our goods across to Enare See, he was the man to do it.
The precious cargoes they carried, and scarcely less valuable intelligence, supplied the means of maintaining the opium-carriers in the highest efficiency.
The greatest pains were taken to secure the efficiency of the service, for the ships were more than mere carriersor passenger-boats.
I got carriers from village to village, and got on nicely with people who had never engaged in the slave-trade; but it was slow work.
The question of state tolls on mail carriers will be treated in the chapter on “The Power of the States to Interfere with the Mails.
The following account is taken from the Garment Workers' Bulletin:-- "Recently the hod carriers in San Francisco presented a petition to their employers for increased pay and pressed for its consideration.
The result was that the trouble with the hod carriers was settled in a week, and the contemplated industrial war in the city was indefinitely postponed.
It was later given power to fix rates which such carriers could charge.
To this end the Commission should be in a position to have available for any Board of Conciliation or Arbitration relevant data pertaining to such carriers as may become involved in industrial disputes.
They were not men who themselves desired to be letter-carriers or clerks or policemen, or to have their friends appointed to these positions.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "carriers" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
