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We lightered it, set up the tent, and as it was now but a short hour to sundown I bade them leave me and make their search.

The Moon Pool 2004

Much enemy food was being lightered up the Dead Sea, and he asked me to note this traffic as a second objective if the effort to Tafileh prevailed.

Seven Pillars of Wisdom Thomas Edward 2003

The rails had to come around Cape Horn or via the Isthmus of Panama to get to San Francisco, then were lightered (taken by smaller ships) to Sacramento, then taken by rail (and, until 1868, by wagon or sled over the summit after Cisco) to the end of track.

Nothing Like It in the World The Men Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad 1863-1869 STEPHEN E. AMBROSE 2000

The rails had to come around Cape Horn or via the Isthmus of Panama to get to San Francisco, then were lightered (taken by smaller ships) to Sacramento, then taken by rail (and, until 1868, by wagon or sled over the summit after Cisco) to the end of track.

Nothing Like It in the World The Men Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad 1863-1869 STEPHEN E. AMBROSE 2000

(Note - If goods lightered please give details under "Further remarks" on schedule.) 2.

Chapter 12 1989

At 0950 he saw Generalmajor Loch and his 17 Division staff safely lightered ashore from their steamer.

Operation Sea Lion Cox, Richard 1974

We lightered it, set up the tent, and as it was now but a short hour to sun-down I bade them leave me and make their search.

The Moon Pool 1919

We lightered it, set up the tent, and as it was now but a short hour to sundown I bade them leave me and make their search.

The Moon Pool Abraham Merritt 1913

American soldiers were being lightered ashore in Manila harbor, in fact, shortly after the cannonading in the harbor, a certain woman came over from the States and took a house in Manila.

Fate Knocks at the Door A Novel Will Levington Comfort 1905

Guns and cargo lightered ashore, more anchors seaward to keep her off the beach, masthead tackles to the trees to heave her down, and preventer rigging and braces to assist the masts, would have been next in order, but they proceeded no further toward careening.

"Where Angels Fear to Tread" and Other Stories of the Sea Morgan Robertson 1888