Occasionally whales are driven in from the sea; and I have seen us commencing at six o'clock on summer morning and working till late in the afternoon, or perhaps six at night, in getting them secured.
The entries are filled in by the captain, and signed by him and each man; but sometimes they are not very particular in getting them signed, and objections have been made to receiving them at the Shipping Office in consequence.
Very few of the hosiery dealers keep provisions, so that at the time the woman had no other way of getting them.
That would save us all the trouble of getting them down by train to Maritzburg and selling them there.
I am afraid there is no use thinking of getting them back.
There will be no difficulty in getting them, as so many have been thrown out of employment owing to the farmers losing their herds.
There is no getting the horses through this crowd, and if we did manage to do so there would be no getting them back, certainly not in a hurry.
Other troops were immediately pushed forward, but the time consumed in getting them up enabled the enemy to rally from his surprise (which had been complete), and get forces to this point for its defence.
We then let them rest and crop the withered grass until nine o'clock, hoping, that in the cool of the evening, we should succeed in getting them to the water, now so few miles away.
Tom Mann uses hate also, and hate has been found to be, as directed toward classes of persons as a means of getting them to do things, archaic and inefficient.
He had succeeded in doing the first, in raising the wages of his employees, by thinking up original ways of expressing himself to them, and of getting them to believe in him and of making them want to work a third harder.
The decks were in a condition of confusion, and this ardent officer was busying himself in getting them cleared up before dark.
The crew of this vessel was supplied with alcohol with the specific object of getting them to work hard at the discharging of the cargo.
They had a tough job, but at midnight of the second day they succeeded in getting them to retrace their way to the ship, the plan being to get aboard when nobody was about.
And I will Endevor to meet him there With some money to assist him in getting them.
I do not know whether the best plan would not be to take the diamonds out and substitute pearls; there would be no difficulty in getting them, and in that case I might have it ready for you in a month.
Isn't it extraordinary that for twenty years four or five men should be spending their lives waiting for a chance of getting them back!
When I, in despair at getting them cleansed, but hopeful of getting them at least smoothed out, suggested damping them down, and ironing them, he compromised matters with his conscience by ironing them wet.
On getting them, we commenced putting my plan into execution.
Then follows the labour of getting them on board, but in a short time all are ready for sea.
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