Then by way of an apology for his appearance, remarked: "I tell you freighting is hard on a man, to drive day after day through all kinds of weather and sleep out at night soon makes a fellow look old.
The great freightingbusiness of this firm was done in wagons carrying a capacity of 7,000 pounds, and drawn by from eight to ten teams of oxen.
Outside, the wind tore at the eaves, the sound muffled by its full freighting of snow.
A silence fell upon them during the meal, a silence broken only by the roar of the wind that came to them as from afar, muffled as it was by its own freighting of snow.
From Nebraska City, which was the principal freighting point upon the river from '64 until the construction of the Union Pacific railroad.
He told us we were too poorly armed to proceed, when the wagon boss took him to some of the wagons and showed him 200 Henri rifles and abundant ammunition which we were freighting to gun dealers in Virginia City.
Many freighting trains started from the Missouri river with not more than two yoke of cattle in the six that comprised each team, that had ever worn a yoke before.
Dell was kept on the move with bunches of cattle, or freighting the caches to the homestead, while Joel received the different contingents and scouted the threatened range.
Two teams were employed in freighting in the corn, four round trips being required, Joel and Manly assuming the work.
After delivering its cargo at an army post, an extensive freighting outfit was returning to the supply point.
The tree grew near the right bank of the creek, the wagon trail passed under it, making it a favorite halting place when freighting in supplies.
The dogs will pull as much as one hundred pounds apiece or more, but that becomes more like freighting than travelling.
Bettles being the head of navigation, and merchandise late in the season finding water too shallow for transport to the diggings, there is more or less freighting with dog teams and horses all the winter.
The typical New England ship for the slave trade was a sloop, schooner or barkentine of about fifty tons burthen, which when engaged in ordinary freighting would have but a single deck.
Its far reaching waterways, furthermore, made freighting easy and permitted the planters to devote themselves the more fully to their staple.
Jack and Bill Combs, George Ray, and Johnny Loughead continued freighting for some time after the Adobe Wall raid.
The price paid for freighting was at one time two to three dollars per hundred pounds, to the Panhandle ranches.
Nelson Cary and Jim Lane, after freighting a few trips, built the first house where Beaver City now stands.
It is true that there was a great profit in the freighting business in the early days, but the difficulties and dangers were proportionally great.
In the meantime, Mancell was to stay there, under pretence of freighting his bark, so as to see all things in readiness against the arrival of the Colonel and his two friends.
The incidental expenses attendant upon freighting a vessel brought the actual cost to 3 16s.
They have done considerable freighting with their teams, going sometimes a hundred miles away.
In the same year, steamboats were freighting barrels of merchandise at fifty cents per barrel for fifteen hundred miles from New Orleans to up-river ports.
There appears to be no fixed freighting tariff established for boats, and the aquatic tourist is placed at the mercy of agents who too frequently, in their zeal for the interests of their employers, heavily tax the owner of the craft.
During all myfreighting to the mines, this is only the second time the scamps have manifested hostility.
The latter was to attend to the freighting and buying in Melbourne, while we would do the trading and selling at Ballarat.
Ship bread is also paying a big profit, while pork and rice can be made to cover all expense of freighting other articles.
The freighting of lumber added much to the income, and the carrying of machinery and other heavy freight on the return trip grew every year.
Murphy, "if she was engaged in freighting munitions to England, it'd be a smart German that would get a chance to blow her up.
The vessel is to be used for transporting troops up and down the west coast of Mexico and for freighting munitions from Japan; and in a delicate way it might be hinted that the de facto Mexican Government is the real buyer.
It is therefore reasonably arguable that our Government has used our Fleet to convoy our Merchantmen in freighting foodstuffs, at our expense, to feed the Germans.
Freighting souls with God to-day, and lading cargoes for the skies.
It was at this time that Buffalo Bill first met his friend Alexander Majors of the freighting firm of Russell & Majors, and he has since then been his lifelong friend.
I remember seeing soldiers coming along that old road lots of times, and freighting wagons, and wagons what we all know carry mostly wiskey, and that was breaking the law, too!
He made the money by freighting groceries from Ohio to Maysville, Kentucky.
Freighting runs high, whether it's from the Iditarod or south from Fairbanks.
But likely it was then, while you was freighting the outfit around to the glacier, you came across those ptarmigan.
Freighting down to New Orleans will pay the expense of going, and leave one or two hundred dollars surplus.
These boats were also engaged in freighting salt to the various parts of the count ry.
Charlie's freighting outfit pulled into Macleod when the troops were drilling, and Philip, though attentive to the commands of his superior, looked across the gully and watched the gate-framed picture of the arrival of supplies.
Charlie will seldom speak of the freighting days, and I remember very little of Fort Benton.
That being the case," agreed the Doctor, "I shall be glad to assist you by freighting your plane to Point Barrow, and I now release my entire crew to help you in demounting it and bringing it to the submarine.
As the Dutch were then doing half the oversea freight work of Europe, and as they had also been making the most of what oversea freighting England had lost during her Civil War, the Act hit them very hard.
The driver of thefreighting outfit wondered at seeing Laramie on foot.
Toward dusk he heard a freighting outfit working laboriously up from the creek.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "freighting" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: bother; demand; exaction; inconvenience; infliction; loading; taxing; trouble
