He got to his destination safely, but while he was unloading the convoy, at about ten o'clock, whether by chance or design I know not, a tremendous hail of shrapnel was poured upon them from the Turkish guns a couple of miles away.
The King left the prince out, and returned to his house with the guards, after unloading their muskets.
While we wereunloading the asses, John Walters, one of the soldiers, fell down in an epileptic fit, and expired in about an hour after.
At theunloading dock, all the Brownies piled out of the vehicle.
Bumper to bumper, they stood, waiting their turn to move up to the factory loading andunloading dock.
The Germans armed with shovels were pressing into service a dozen of the farmer-prisoners to aid in unloading the dead.
By the glare of the bluish searchlights which were spreading a livid clearness over the sea, began the unloading of passengers and baggage for Paris, from the transatlantic into the tenders.
There had been a transport in the squadron unloading supplies, which I had been given to understand would take me off on her return to New York.
The nature and priority of unloading supplies should henceforth become the call of the tactical commander ashore, not the amphibious task force commander.
Indiscriminate unloading during the first 30 hours of the landing had further scrambled supplies and equipment in intervening decks.
The indiscriminate unloading was hindering prosecution of the fight ashore.
While unloadingthe Trinidad, the Spaniards were attacked by Indians, whom they dispersed.
In unloading the vessel, the cargo forward being first taken out, she settled by the stern and sprang a leak, damaging fifteen barrels of flour, which were thrown upon my hands.
In the middle were two or three big vans, loading or unloading and filling the roadway, thus cutting the street into two so effectively that I, approaching from the east, had no knowledge of anything happening in the western half.
If you lean over the eastern parapet of London Bridge, just under the clock which has letters instead of numerals, you will see the stevedores unloading all kinds of wonderful sea-borne exotic merchandise.
I therefore resolved to ride on in advance of my party, leaving them to overcome the difficulties of the pass by constantly unloading the animals, while I would reconnoitre in front, as Ellyria was not far distant.
He got a crack in the back of his head from the corner of a case of “75s,” while unloading ammunition some two months ago, which affected the optic nerve.
While they were unloading the flivver we stopped in at Madame C.
Being aware that his claim had no foundation in law, he did not attempt to establish it before any magistrate, but seized the girl and hurried her on board a sloop, that lay near Spruce-street wharf, unloading staves.
When they moored their boat alongside of the one into which they were unloading staves, he became very vociferous, and pointing his gun at Friend Hopper's breast, swore he should not enter the vessel.
He wished now that he had taken a look over his shoulder when young Kenner was unloading the car at Smiling Lou's command.
Standing upon the running board at Casey's shoulder where he had a clear view, the big man watched the unloading and at the same time kept an eye on Casey.
It was that the transports were unloading troops still.
The Invaders of Long Island From Roslyn, Long Island, came word that all the invading vessels that could find room at the Cold Spring wharves were unloading material.
There were foreign ships lying under the forts, unloadingspare guns to replace those that were destroyed.
Light draft when loaded has very definite advantages in the Arctic, for it allows loading and unloading on the beach or afloat, and allows the boat to be beached at points where this would not be possible with a deeper hull.
It is probable that the group lashings were let into the gunwales by shallow notching at each group, a common Indian practice when no rail cap was used, to prevent abrasion from the paddle or from loading and unloading the canoe.
This period can be lengthened by various methods; skin boats travelling in company can be dried out in turn by unloading one and placing it aboard a companion craft.
Here the young man at the car door saw the ditch company's unloading side-track with a spur branching away from the main line and crossing the river on a temporary trestle.
One of the men of the unloading gang, a leather-faced grade shoveller who had helped to build the Nevada Short Line, had lagged behind the departing wagons to fill and light his pipe.
Over a low hill just ahead the pole-bracketed lights at the dam were starring themselves against the sky, and the group of horsemen was halting at the head of the railroad trestle which marked the location of the north side unloading station.
A string of box cars had been pushed up from the freightunloading platforms, and in the shadow of the cars he worked his way westward to the yard where a night switching crew was making up a train.
While he was waiting for the train to pull up and make the shift he was commenting idly upon the clumsy lay-out of the temporary unloading yard, and wondering if Williams were responsible for it.
Next there was the loading and unloading to be considered, involving long hours and hard work by the men on the quaysides.
One hour's delay in unloading a ship may mean three hours' additional delay on the railways, the loss of a shift at a munition works and a day's delay in a great offensive.
The unloading was as much a part of the merriment of the evening as Tim's comic song or Sam's sallies of wit.
Cameron and I agreed that the only way of entering them is by running the boat ashore, unloading her, and warping her round the point, as we shall afterwards do at Prince's.
At Bathurst they find ships loading or unloading by the work of the Golah women, whose lazy husbands live upon the hardly-earned wage.
Kermode had been unloading rails all day, and he was standing on the veranda one evening when a supply train from the east was due.
The jackal was dragged off, and we then finished our work of unloading our boat.
Fritz, Ernest, and I began the work of unloading our craft, while Jack, seeing that the poor donkey was still encumbered with his swimming belt, tried to free him from it.
The captain introduced the two boys and Lake shook hands without taking his eyes from the unloading operation.
They had finished unloading the last of the other trawlers a full fifteen minutes before.
Bill Lake was the skipper, and the man they had seen directing the unloading from the bridge.
Looks like you'll be busy unloading for an hour or so.
They have to do their unloading by hand at Creek House, but the ship would have cargo booms.
You're not trying to kid anyone that you tie up at this pier before unloading your fish just because you want to be sociable, are you?
With that squall rushing from the eastward and the tide making flood, any man who would leave the protection of the spar buoy for the purpose of unloading was fit for a lunatic asylum.
A truck had arrived while they were talking, and the men were unloading some great rolls of paper,--enormous spools.
The unloading of various sloops and schooners under his orders had enlarged this submerged rock to a miniature island, its ragged crest thrust above the sea.
