porterage

• “Even when the carriage is paid, there is still porterage from the station to the place of delivery, which cannot be prepaid - sixpence, or eightpence, or a shilling, according to the bulk.”

  Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle

• “Because of the porterage problems, they had to abandon their boat along the way and could only look on from the shore.”

  The Wall Street Journal: To the Source

• “Further, let us get rid of all superfluous baggage, save only what we require for the sake of war, or meat and drink, so that as many of us as possible may be under arms, and as few as possible doing porterage.”

  Anabasis

• “The man who plunders is no longer a man, he is a machine for porterage, and all who list may treat him as a slave.”

  Cyropaedia

• “And I set her there in her favourite place, by the sweet-scented wood-fire; and she paid me porterage without my even asking her; and for all the beauty of the rain, I was fain to stay with her; until our”

  Lorna Doone

• “It was already beyond maternal porterage, and Caddles, staggering indeed, but grinning triumphantly at quantitatively inferior parents, bore it back to the free-sitting occupied by his party.”

  The Food of the Gods and how it came to Earth

• “Like the other men in the house, he knew of the carrying to and fro of the great chest, and had got it into his head that the care exercised in its porterage indicated that it was full of treasure.”

  The Lair of the White Worm

• “When Skinsky had come to him, he had taken him to the ship and handed over the box, so as to save porterage.”

  Dracula

• “The demands for porterage were so exorbitant next morning, that we set out on foot under the guidance of Tom Peter.”

  Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo

• “Young boys skipped around us like tadpoles, offering porterage, Chiclets, hotels, cars, their sister, anything our foreign hearts desired.”

  Simon & Schuster: Walls of Silence

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