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"Cartage" Quotes from Famous Books

... got two horses?" says the foreman. "Bring them down, then, the pair of them, to help with the cartage here. ...

— Growth of the Soil • Knut Hamsun

... these wordes fal pearced on a sword The blade embrued and hands besprent with gore. The clamor rang unto the pallace toppe, The brute ranne throughout al thastoined towne, With wailing great, and women's shrill yelling, The roofs gan roare, the aire resound with plaint, As though Cartage, or thauncient town of Tyre With prease of entred enemies swarmed full, Or when the rage of furious flame doth take The temples toppes, and ...

— The Aeneid of Virgil - Translated into English Verse by E. Fairfax Taylor • Virgil

... quivers, oscillates, advances, recoils, first in one direction, then in another, until in the end the little hillock of sand is crossed. Now we are free of the brick and on excellent soil. Little by little the load advances. This is no cartage by a team hauling in the open, but a jerky displacement, the work of invisible levers. The body seems to ...

— The Wonders of Instinct • J. H. Fabre