The afternoon went in dealing cards, in arranging them in fans, in announcing tierces or bellas. ❋ Simenon, Georges, 1903- (1969)
They come from the Levant in hair bales weighing three and a quarter cwt., or in tierces of four to five cwt., and are used by calico printers for dyeing a yellow color. ❋ P. L. Simmonds (N/A)
The largest rice crop grown in South Carolina for the past thirty years, was in 1847, when 192,462 tierces were raised; 140,000 to 150,000 is about the average, and it has only exceeded 170,000 on four occasions. ❋ P. L. Simmonds (N/A)
France, les septièmes garçons, nez de légitimes mariages, sans que la suitte des sept ait esté interrompue par la naissance d'aucune fille, peuvent aussi guérir des fièvres tierces, des fièvres quartes, at mesme des écrouelles, après avoir jeûné trois ou neuf jours avant que de toucher les malades. ❋ George Barton Cutten (N/A)
Rice is imported into this country in bags of 1½ cwt., and tierces of ❋ P. L. Simmonds (N/A)
If you want a particular case of broadcloth you must clear yourself an alleyway through a hundred tierces of hams, and last week's entry of clayed sugars is inaccessible without tumbling on your head a mountain of Yankee notions. ❋ Fitz Hugh Ludlow (N/A)
The American crop of rice in 1848, reached 162,058 tierces in market, and of these 160,330 tierces were exported from South Carolina. ❋ P. L. Simmonds (N/A)
It was formerly one of the most famous in the provinces, and the late Robert Christie, for many years member for Gaspé, used to take two thousand tierces of salmon annually from the Restigouche. ❋ Various (N/A)
It is then put into tierces and sold in the Kingston market, or shipped to Britain. ❋ P. L. Simmonds (N/A)
Perhaps this ship of Spain was about to discharge her butts and tierces. ❋ John Masefield (1922)
Laden with eight thousand gallons of rum at 1_s. 8_d_. per gallon and with forty-five barrels, tierces and hogsheads of bread, flour, beef, pork, tar, tobacco, tallow and sugar -- all at an estimated cost of £775 -- it was to sail for the ❋ Ulrich Bonnell Phillips (1905)
I thought that would settle Jim and let me out, for it's no joke lugging beef, or rolling barrels and tierces a hundred yards or so to the cars. ❋ George Horace Lorimer (1902)
Expended this month: 7 bb. beef, 3 bbs. of pork, 6 bbs. flour, 2 tierces of bread. ❋ Unknown (1898)
Expended from June the 5 till July the 5, being one month, 6 bbs. of beef, 2 bbs. of pork, 1 bb. of bread and 6 tierces of bread. ❋ Unknown (1898)
This was granted, and the citizens of Charleston chartered a steamboat and placed on board one thousand bushels of corn, one hundred barrels of flour, thirty barrels of beef, twenty barrels of pork, and ten tierces of rice. ❋ Wright, Gen Marcus J (1893)
Page 259 the principal business of making barrels or tierces for marketing the rice grown upon the plantations near the city. ❋ James Meriles (1888)
Our host's cocktails, made of champagne bitters and pounded ice, soon put all things to rights; and after breakfast we lounged down to the quays on the river-side, which were piled mountains high with cotton-bales and tobacco tierces, and mixed in the lively and busy scene of discharging, selling, and shipping cargoes. ❋ Pasha, Hobart (1887)
I hurried down to the beach, and saw the native owners, and then the boat itself, which, after very little trouble, I bought for ten muskets, a couple of tierces of tobacco, and a hundred fathoms of red turkey twill. ❋ Louis Becke (1884)
Congress were burning, while all the Coast Landing's wealth of Louisiana foodstuffs, in barrels and hogsheads, bags and tierces, lay unharmed. ❋ George Washington Cable (1884)
These prize houses perform the functions necessary to put the tobacco in convenient shape for transportation, which is done in the hogsheads or tierces, in which the leaf, selected according to grade and most carefully and systematically packed, is subjected to heavy pressure by means of screws, and the packages, closely headed up, are ready for their destination. ❋ John Donald (1881)