The sale of the cerite lighters in France threatened to upset the finances of the republic, which derived large revenue from its monopoly of match-making, so the French Government imposed a tax upon every man who carried one.
American tourists who bought these lighters in Germany used to be much annoyed at being held up on the French frontier and compelled to take out a license.
Not all the lighters had children, but those that had, owned dozens, and all the ugly ones had whooping-cough.
But I don't pity the people on lighters and barges.
This consisted in surprising and making happy many families of children on board the lighters we passed, by bestowing upon them toys and strange sugary cakes bought at Leeuwarden Kermess.
The two of them swerved outside the clumsy motor-lighters and gradually forged ahead, lost sight of them, and went plunging into the head seas, steering by compass and by the glow of the fires of Anzac.
Silhouetted black against these fires was the Cornwallis battleship, left behind to keep the fires burning with her shells--if necessary--and to destroy in the morning the few wooden lighterswhich had been left behind.
The clumsy motor-lighters were a danger to themselves and a terror to others, for they often refused to answer their helms when they left the lee of the sunken hulks and their bows first met the seas.
Pier to find out why two motor-lighters could not get off.
Badly; they've been terribly cut up; haven't landed a man since nine this morning; something went wrong when they tried to get the lighters in position under her bows.
You see those dark shadows under the bows; they're the lighters your chaps fixed up.
That took a good hour, and when the big lighters came hauling themselves into these rope "gangways" they and their men had to unload them.
On the river-side four large lighters were moored in the tideway, and were to work with crabs and sheaves or pulleys upon chains, fastened to the vessel amidships.
At the signals the lighters slowly but steadily commenced to haul taut their tackle from the river.
Barges andlighters were sunk and broke loose by the score, and twenty-two watermen and others working on the river were drowned.
Two lighters were also moored at the stem and two at the stern of the vessel.
It was late when he reached Adexe, and found nobody in authority about, but three loaded lighters were moored at the wharf, and a gang of peons were trimming the coal that was being thrown on board another.
They left the hotel and shortly afterwards reached the mole, which sheltered the shallow harbor where the cargo lighters were unloaded.
The tug and four lighters left last night," somebody answered in Castilian, and Dick imagined from the harshness of the voice that one of the wharf-hands was speaking.
The lighters would tow badly through the white, curling sea, and there was a risk of the hawsers breaking.
Two steamers lay not far off, rolling gently on the glittering swell, and several lighters were moored against the wharf.
Midshipman Drewry assisted Commander Unwin in the work of getting the lighters into position, and toiled on, utterly regardless of the heavy fire.
These gangways slope gradually down from the doors to her bows, so that men can pass along on both sides in single file, and jump on to the lighters which she will tow in with her.
The lighters are placed in position so as to form a bridge between the gangway and the rock.
When the River Clyde was run ashore a floating bridge oflighters was formed.
The lighters give way in the current; the end one nearest the shore drifts into deep water, and many men striving to swim from it to the beach are drowned.
Observing this, Commander Unwin left the River Clyde, and, standing waist deep in the water under a murderous fire, endeavoured to get the lighters into position again.
A third company essays the task: the lighters are filled with dead and wounded.
Now comes the moment for the River Clyde, like the horse of Troy, to pour forth its living freight; but there is grievous delay, for the current runs strongly, and there is grave difficulty in keeping the lighters in position.
The swirling current drove the lighters adrift, and the bridge was broken.
The hatchets went crack, crack; the steamer shuddered and plunged forward; and the lighters bumped swiftly astern.
When thelighters DO come, borrow the fireman's iron rods.
Then the lighters will come and the men will discharge you.
Hindhaugh saw both lighters draw near, he felt the usual scraping bump, and then he heard a sudden thunder of many feet.
Two large felucca-rigged lighters hove up slowly through the dusk, and the chief Scorpion's signal was answered.
Ask those fellows in the lighters if any of them can pay the freight for the job.
It is a serious drawback that passengers by large ocean steamers cannot enter the harbor of Pernambuco except by lighters or open boats; all freight brought by these steamers must also be transhipped.
Frequently all would be ready for lifting, when the sea would roughen, and everything have to be abandoned, the lightersreturning to Portsmouth.
So we had just to shove our things back into our chests and get into our dirtiest uniform, for the coal lighters were already alongside, and we were being smothered with coal dust.
It was too rough for the lighters to come off, so we anchored for the night.
The owner of a stagecoach, a railway company, the master of a general ship, a wharfinger carrying goods on his own lighters are common carriers; and it makes no difference that one of the termini of the journey is out of England.
Vessels were loaded and discharged by lighters from the beach.
There was such a swell running into the harbour that we were banging against those lightersrather heavily, and the natives were often frightened to carry the coal on board.
She worked with the lighters freighting bananas and oranges out to the fruit steamers that could not approach nearer than a mile from the shore.
When they take on fruit it is conveyed on lighters and freighter sloops.
Next a swarm of Caribs began to load upon lighters the thousands of bunches of bananas heaped upon the shore and row them out to the steamer.
The Caribs were busy loading her by means of the great lighters heaped full from the piles of fruit ranged upon the shore.
Warren's, with whom I did motion a business that may be of profit to me, about buying some lighters to send down to the fleete, wherein he will assist me.
So back again, by the way seeing my goods well in the lighters at Deptford, and watched well by people.
In the afternoon I paid for the two lighters that carried my goods to Deptford, and they cost me L8.
Warren that he has gone through four lighters for me, which pleases me very well.
Warren's (the first time I was in his new house on the other side the water since he enlarged it) to discourse about our lighters that he hath bought for me, and I hope to get L100 by this jobb.
In the steel side of the ship doors have been cut, which open and disgorge men into the lighters alongside, like some new Horse of Troy.
But a tornado of shot and shell rained on her, and of the gallant men who leaped from the lightersto the reef and from the reef to the sea, very few reached the land.
We were four or five days collecting our seventeen packages of freight, and with V---- took turns day and night waiting for the uncertain lighters to come ashore with their mixed loads of machinery and miscellaneous supplies.
Our quantity of lighters was now much increased, and employed in carrying dry goods, etcetera.
Mr Drummond offered to article me on board of one of his own lighters free of all expense, leaving me at liberty to change into any other vessel that I might think proper.
The British watchers saw all the lighters coming and going.
Roll up two white writing-paper lighters and push an end of each up in the head under the trunk, forming one tusk on each side.
If you find that you need more and a greater Variety of Candy manufacture it of strips of bright-colored paper rolled into the form of paper lighters about the length and thickness of ordinary stick candy.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "lighters" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
