transport-ship

The first of these consolations I had was a good quarrel, which took place on the day after my entrance into the transport-ship, with a huge red-haired monster of a fellow — a chairman, who had enlisted to fly from a vixen of a wife, who, boxer as he was, had been more than a match for him.

The Memoires of Barry Lyndon 2006

Besides, all manner of doubt was quickly put out of the question: preparations for the trip were set on foot at London; the factories of Lyons received a heavy order for the silk required for the body of the balloon; and, finally, the British Government placed the transport-ship Resolute, Captain Bennett, at the disposal of the expedition.

Five Weeks in a Balloon 2003

Intent_, a frigate of twenty-six guns, converted for the nonce into a transport-ship to accommodate three companies of his Majesty's Second

The Blue Pavilions Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903

The captain, his uncle, died at sea, and the crew sold the boy to this transport-ship, which chanced to pass them.

Customs and Fashions in Old New England Alice Morse Earle 1881

The regularly recurring feasts and saints 'days, the half-yearly courier from San Diego, the rare transport-ship and rarer foreign vessel, were the mere details of his patriarchal life.

The Luck of Roaring Camp and Other Tales With Condensed Novels, Spanish and American Legends, and Earlier Papers Bret Harte 1869

They reached Fernando Po, and then the Calabar River where they embarked on the _Carnarvon_ for Rio Janeiro, at which port Admiral Baker, then commanding the station, got them a passage on board a transport-ship.

Celebrated Travels and Travellers Part III. The Great Explorers of the Nineteenth Century Jules Verne 1866

When Wingfold was in the pulpit, then, he could speak as from the secret to the secret; but elsewhere he felt, in regard to Helen, like a transport-ship filled with troops, which must go sailing around the shores of an invaded ally, in frustrate search for a landing.

Thomas Wingfold, Curate V3 George MacDonald 1864

When Wingfold was in the pulpit, then, he could speak as from the secret to the secret; but elsewhere he felt, in regard to Helen, like a transport-ship filled with troops, which must go sailing around the shores of an invaded ally, in frustrate search for a landing.

Thomas Wingfold, Curate George MacDonald 1864

Some hundred years since, a transport-ship, filled with troops, was wrecked on the reef off the Lizard Head.

Rambles Beyond Railways; or, Notes in Cornwall taken A-foot Wilkie Collins 1856

He was sentenced to transportation for fourteen years, and was removed to the Edinburgh jail, from thence to the hulks, and lastly to the transport-ship, containing eighty-three convicts, which conveyed him to

The Complete Works of Whittier John Greenleaf Whittier 1849