horse-load

“Either of those men would think it a treat to ride ten miles in and ten miles back, with a horse-load of sugar and tea and flour, for the sake of a glass of brandy-and-water.”

Harry Heathcote of Gangoil 2004

He wanted to add to my baggage a roast lamb and a quantity of other cumbrous viands, but I escaped with half a horse-load of leaven bread, which was very good of its kind, and proved a most useful present.

Eothen 2003

“It is well for you that you have not asked for a horse-load,” said he who had come out of the rock.

The Blue Fairy Book 2003

However, Masara was a valuable asset for which he had paid a horse-load of silver bars, and at last he gave his permission.

River God Smith, Wilbur, 1933- 1993

In a straightforward trading arrangement, Masara had been sold to Arkoun for a horse-load of silver bars.

River God Smith, Wilbur, 1933- 1993

A halfpenny for a modest man-load, a penny for a horse-load, from twopence to fourpence for a cart-load, depending on the size and capacity, and higher fees in proportion for the goods unloaded from the river barges that tied up at the temporary landing-stage along the Gaye.

St. Peter's Fair Peters, Ellis, 1913- 1981

A halfpenny for a modest man-load, a penny for a horse-load, from twopence to fourpence for a cart-load, depending on the size and capacity, and higher fees in proportion for the goods unloaded from the river barges that tied up at the temporary landing-stage along the Gaye.

St. Peter's Fair Peters, Ellis, 1913- 1981

The ship remained at anchor in Dublin harbour while tailors and tradesmen of all sorts fitted me out, for Master Freake had given me guineas enough for a horse-load.

The Yeoman Adventurer George W. Gough

In Britton's time, as he tells us, there had fallen a "horse-load of the pinnacles in the canopy of Cardinal Beaufort's chantry."

Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Winchester A Description of Its Fabric and a Brief History of the Episcopal See Philip Walsingham Sergeant 1912

Two days later he addressed another open letter to Lord Grey, the result of six weeks 'hard labour, during which, he says,' it seemed to me that I had read a cart-load and written a horse-load. '

The Tribune of Nova Scotia A Chronicle of Joseph Howe 1903