English vocabulary examples in context: barge
Vocabulary in context: barge -- Example 1.
The long old Cyclopean wall by the Thames was studded with rings, to which were anchored the river barges.
Vocabulary in context: barge -- Example 2.
We pleased ourselves with the spectacle of Dublin's commerce--the barges signalled from far away by their curls of woolly smoke, the brown fishing fleet beyond Ringsend, the big white sailingvessel which was being discharged on the opposite quay.
Vocabulary in context: barge -- Example 3.
He also dismissed the fool of a bailiff, and took to bearing a personal hand in everything--to being present in the fields, at the threshing-floor, at the kilns, at the wharf, at the freighting of barges and rafts, and at their conveyance down the river: wherefore even the lazy hands began to look to themselves.
Vocabulary in context: barge -- Example 4.
Again, the drier portions of the meadows could be crossed to the river wharves, whence the first barges were just beginning to set forth with pea-meal and barley and wheat, while at the same time one's ear would be caught with the sound of some mill resuming its functions as once more the water turned the wheel.
Vocabulary in context: barge -- Example 5.
Then passed rafts of wood interminably long, and barges loaded to the gunwale, and nearly sinking under water.
Vocabulary in context: barge -- Example 6.
The two boatmen propelled their barge with long poles, which they handled cleverly; but as they gained the middle of the stream it grew deeper and deeper, until at last they could only just reach the botto
Vocabulary in context: barge -- Example 7.
If only a boat or a barge large enough to hold the kibitka could be found, or even one that would carry just themselves, Michael would not hesitate to attempt the passage!
Vocabulary in context: barge -- Example 8.
But not a boat was on the shore, not a barge at the little wharf, nothing even of which a raft could be made large enough to carry three people.
Vocabulary in context: barge -- Example 9.
Not because there was a Strand with its extraordinary traffic, nor a Thames with its prodigious movement of barges and steamboats.
Vocabulary in context: barge -- Example 10.
Other barges started twice a day, either for Deptford, Greenwich, or Gravesend, going down with one tide and returning with the next.
Vocabulary in context: barge -- Example 11.
At that the Pool became a scene of mad confusion, fighting, and collision, and for some time a multitude of boats and barges jammed in the northern arch of the Tower Bridge, and the sailors and lightermen had to fight savagely against the people who swarmed upon them from the riverfront.
Vocabulary in context: barge -- Example 12.
The tavern, the degraded appearance of the man, the five nights in the hay barge, and the pot of spirits, and yet this poignant love for his wife and children bewildered his listener.
