Shiploads

Fourteen shiploads of cargo and machinery arrived to provide tons of food. ❋ Unknown (2011)

“Men have been drowned, not one by one nor two by two, but a hundred and a thousand at a time and even whole shiploads.” ❋ Russell Jacoby (2011)

My sleep was often a torment to me, for it was then that my desires took licence to rove, so that a thousand times I dreamed myself possessed of hogsheads of tobacco -- ay, and of warehouses of tobacco, and of shiploads and of entire plantations of tobacco. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Cutting Russia's bargaining powerWhile Russia holds out for the best price, gas demand in Europe is weak, shale gas makes North America self-sufficient in gas, and shiploads of liquefied natural gas cruise the oceans looking for buyers. ❋ Unknown (2010)

If you feel that the manipulation of the news flow regarding metals “demand” is designed to get prices down and facilitate a grab for copper mines and not just for a few shiploads in the short term then the mines that are in the target range are largely in Peru and they are projects like those of Candente and Chariot Resources. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Investors at the time built import terminals to receive shiploads of gas from the Middle East and Africa. ❋ Simon Moore (2011)

"Live animal exports are shiploads of misery," he told reporters. ❋ Ray Brindal (2011)

Now comes word via the London Times that Gadhafi plans to pay £2 billion to victims of IRA bombs for his role in supplying shiploads of explosives. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Mr. MORGAN: "We must make clear to France that we are not going to enter into any agreement which will result in shiploads of coffins, draped in American flags, being shipped from Indochina to the United States in any attempt to support colonialism in Indochina," end quote. ❋ Unknown (2010)

For most Americans it will be a boozy bachelor Christmas and, in spite of cards, the shiploads of parcels from home, the plastic Christmas trees that don't wilt in the heat, and carol services on tape, they would rather be getting on with the job or getting out. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Nineteen shiploads of Russian prisoners carried over thirty thousand men during the month, leaving 69,745 POWs and internees, while the number of hospital patients fell to 2,389. ❋ Unknown (2008)

That was 2005, And now we're importing shiploads of stuff again, and sending the ships back filled with cash -- and what's left of our future. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Now comes word via the London Times that Gadhafi plans to pay £2 billion to victims of IRA bombs for his role in supplying shiploads of explosives. ❋ Unknown (2010)

"Are you [going bowling] with the guys?" "Dude, I wish: my [English teacher] gave us a shipload of reading to do over [the weekend]." "So are you going bowling then?" "Yeah." ❋ Nomen Nescio (2008)