cattle-boat

He sat thinking of the cattle-boat as a home which he had loved but which he would never see again.

Our Mr. Wrenn 2004

He arrived at his room on Tavistock Place about eleven, and tried to think for the rest of the night of how deeply he was missing Morton of the cattle-boat now that — now that he had no friend in all the hostile world.

Our Mr. Wrenn 2004

Was it true that Mr. Wrenn and Mr. Morton had gone clear across the Atlantic on a cattle-boat?

Our Mr. Wrenn 2004

Pay me the five Friday, or pay it to my foreman when he puts you on the cattle-boat.

Our Mr. Wrenn 2004

Still — on the cattle-boat — Say, I wish you could of seen it when the gang were tying up the bulls, before starting.

Our Mr. Wrenn 2004

And he had been very proud of knowing one card from another perfectly, having played a number of games of two-handed poker with Tim on the cattle-boat.

Our Mr. Wrenn 2004

Perhaps it was his cattle-boat experience which now made him deal directly with such drunkenness as would have nauseated him three months before; perhaps his attendance on a weary Istra.

Our Mr. Wrenn 2004

A writer has thus graphically described the scene in a cattle-boat in rough weather: 'Helpless cattle dashed from one side of the ship to the other, amid a ruin of smashed pens, with limbs broken from contact with hatchway combings or winches -- dishorned, gored, and some of them smashed to mere bleeding masses of hide-covered flesh.

No Animal Food and Nutrition and Diet with Vegetable Recipes Rupert H. Wheldon

I related how I had first read the New Testament in the Greek, while on a cattle-boat, in the China Seas ....

Tramping on Life Kemp, Harry, 1883-1960 1922

I related how I had first read the New Testament in the Greek, while on a cattle-boat, in the China Seas ....

Tramping on Life An Autobiographical Narrative Harry Kemp 1921