Nobody seemed more than mildly interested in our arrival, with the exception of a supply officer who was making agitated inquiries about a consignment of forty crates of oranges which he said should have been on board.
At rare intervals a consignment of canteen stores would arrive, on which occasions the unloading party would be at the beach bright and early; things get lost so easily.
Certainly no human being was more unfitted by nature for successful peddling than Lafcadio Hearn, and at the end of the day he returned to the Syrian with the consignment intact.
A Syrian peddler employed him to help dispose of some accumulated wares, sending him out with a consignment of small mirrors.
They had long been held up before the mob, by placards and impassioned harangues, as traitors to their country, and the populace of Paris were clamorous for their consignment to the guillotine.
Consignment of thirty-three tons of steel, fifty tons of cement safely delivered to Holy Land.
Construction of the third unit of the Báb’s Shrine is terminated, synchronizing with the safe arrival at the port of Haifa of the last consignment of stones ordered in Italy totaling over thirteen hundred tons.
Further consignment hundred twenty tons, comprising lower part of Octagon and Pinnacles, four completed Facades, Door, Window Frames have arrived at Port of Haifa.
Then, warmed by the honest fellow's undoubted anxiety, he said, "Do you remember any consignment of brick that ever came to this station?
A consignment to Lorenzo Marques, connected as is the town by only forty miles of railway with the Transvaal frontier, would seem to be well within the principles of the Civil War cases as to "continuous voyages.
Then on Friday afternoon I shall call up those people and pitch my yarn about my consignment of props having gone astray, and ask if they can send their boat direct here.
The consignmentwas a mixed one, containing different kinds of spirituous liquors.
For every consignment of stuff that leaves the works a permit or certificate is issued and handed to the carrier who removes it.
Quite a number of the pages referring to mixed consignment had for their last item kegs of French brandy.
Hunt then proceeded to examine the consignment itself, and Willis was lost in admiration at the rapidity as well as the thoroughness of his inspection.
Suppose Leatham arranges for a cargo for some indefinite date ahead, then on the day after the Girondin leaves France he goes to Ferriby and says some other consignment has failed him, and could they let him have the next cargo?
He made an excuse for leaving the works, and returning to Hull, called at the licensed house to which the previous afternoon's consignment had been dispatched.
Transvaal, although its owners claimed that the consignment was not destined for the belligerent Republic but for local consumption at Lorenzo Marques.
It was alleged by the captors that the ship's papers were not in proper form, and that besides the flour and other foodstuffs she carried a consignment of lubricating oil for the Netherlands South African Railway.
The representative of the United States insisted that nothing short of delivery at their port of consignment would fulfill the English obligation in a commercial sense such as to give the goods the value intended.
The Maria's cargo included a consignment of lubricating oil as well as a miscellaneous consignment of light hardware.
There was a consignment of lubricating oil to the Netherlands South African Railway, the latter company held to be the property of the Transvaal Government, and a like consignment to the Lorenzo Marques Railway, a Portuguese concern.
An inspection of the manifest had shown several cases of rifle ammunition for Mauser, Mannlicher and sporting rifles consigned to Mombasa, but this consignment was believed to be bona fide.
This consignment was held to be enemy's property since it was considered that the railway belonged to the Transvaal, the specific charge against the ship being that of trading with the enemy.
The consignment was not a large one and the attempt was evidently made as an experiment.
The fact that a consignment of flour was billed to a Lorenzo Marques firm but labelled "Z.
In February the gold was returned to the Bank of Durban because the ultimate destination of the consignment did not warrant the presumption that it was enemy's property.
The end of it was, that Rolandsen went into the office, straight to the instrument, called up the station at Rosengaard, and asked his colleague there to send him half a keg of cognac with the next consignment coming down.
There was his big consignment of herring still in the hands of the agents at Bergen; prices were low, and Mack was holding.
July 31st, the first consignment of emigrants from the North, twenty-nine in number, arrived at Lawrence; and September 2d the second installment of one hundred and fourteen arrived and joined the initial company.
Sending for a second consignment of Sharp's rifles, Robinson wrote these impressive and heroic words: We are in the midst of a revolution, as you will see by the papers.
I understand Stolzenberg sent a huge consignment of their plumage to a firm he trades with in Marseilles.
We travelled down together, he to get married, of course, and I to see to a large consignment of goods that has arrived for us here.
He would finish the half-dozen pictures needed to complete the consignment for the Eastern and European exhibits, then he would start on his journey.
He was to send a consignment of pictures to his Eastern agent for exhibition and sale, and he wished to include several of the landscapes he had painted since his arrival at the cabin.
In June I had to go back to Crete to make consignment of the consulate to my successor.
I sent for a consignment of them yesterday; Bullen says they'll do.
What was more, he caught snatches of their conversation which told him that another consignment of the smuggled goods was due from Trail, just across the border, within the week.
Ever since that consignment of antique ivory got through last year we've gone over every vessel with a microscope, probing the mattresses and even pawing around in the coal bins.
An irregularity has been discovered in the last consignment received from the firm of Defresnier and Co.
The similarity in the brands, we suppose, caused a mistake to be made in sending the consignment from Neuchatel.
In the time of Pebbleson Nephew, Young Mr. Vendale, no such thing was ever known as a mistake made in a consignment delivered at these doors.
We are taking stock, and a trifling mistake has been discovered in the last consignment of champagne sent by your house to ours.
On the 25th April, they were cheered by the arrival of two small English ships from Cochin, where the intelligence of the disaster had reached; and received a small reinforcement of seven men with a consignment of provisions.
By good fortune there happened to be in the road a small country ship that had brought a consignment of cowries from the Maldives.
They finished the first consignmentwithout any luck, and went to the second place.
One battalion when sending a specially large consignment of whizzing bullets across into the Boer lines did so to the accompanying tune of "You have to have 'em Whether you want 'em or no!
It was the second large consignment of the sort which General Botha had consented to receive, and of which we were anxious to be rid.
The two sailors were standing by the boat, and a considerable pile of fish in the bow showed that they had been successful in getting a consignment from the other fishermen of the port.
