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Example sentences for "baggage"

Lexicographically close words:
bagasse; bagatelle; bagatelles; bagel; bagful; baggageman; bagge; bagged; bagger; baggers
  1. Mr. Dauntrey and Mr. Ludlow attended to the baggage and the tickets and very soon all were ready.

  2. The water was so high that it probably came up on the tracks here, and the engine and baggage car jumped the weakened trestle into the water.

  3. The ingin and one ob de baggage cars did fall off these track, plump, splash, right in de water.

  4. After our baggage was placed in our rooms, we were escorted upstairs and left to prepare for dinner, which was generally at noon, but had been delayed for Rebecca's arrival.

  5. We climbed into the back seat after the baggage had been stowed away, and the horses started off.

  6. His baggage was on board of the steamer for Marseilles, and he had no difficulty in conveying me to the vessel.

  7. Every bag and valise was opened by the custom–house officers; and all the freight and baggage cars were locked and sealed, so that they should not be opened till they arrived at Lisbon.

  8. I would not, when this moment comes, take with me, as the trivial baggage of a mountebank, the treasure of tinsel and tatters that my Fancy has been heaping up in the rubbish chambers of the brain.

  9. What became of the troops after the loss of their baggage and camels is not stated.

  10. On arrival, the Pasha proceeded immediately to inspect the battalion encamped there (2nd Battalion, 1st Regiment), and informed the officers that he intended to march with as small a baggage train as possible.

  11. I hope Cuzzi’s baggage will be searched, for I feel sure he is a traitor.

  12. The troops both marched and fought, formed up in square, with camels and baggage in the centre, and a few mounted Bashi Bazouks and men on dromedaries in front to feel the way.

  13. No delays occurred, the necessary supply of camels for the transport of baggage and stores having always been prepared beforehand.

  14. Numbers had already crossed, but a large body with camels and baggage still remained on the eastern bank.

  15. All warlike stores and all ammunition and arsenal stores, and baggage of soldiers that shall be needed, shall be asked for from the Egyptian Government, and shall be sent to the Soudan.

  16. Topies will be crushed—aches and pains in every part of the body (I should be inclined to put them on ambulance saddles, one on each side: awkward if they meet a baggage caravan).

  17. There was bad news, too, from Ingria, where Luebecker had also been defeated, losing all his baggage and three thousand first-class troops.

  18. The artillery and heavy baggage were left aboard, and ordered to Topsham, the seaport to Exeter.

  19. There was a dead calm all that morning; and in three hours' time all our horse were landed, with as much baggage as was necessary till we got to Exeter.

  20. The baggage was taken out, and the canoe lifted from the water, turned upside down, and laid on the rocks.

  21. If you go in you have got to picket your horse here and put your baggage there and come in at gun-fire, and all sorts of things that troubles a man who is accustomed to act as he likes.

  22. The less baggage one travels with the better, for when I leave the railway I shall only want what I can carry with me or pack on horses.

  23. Except on a very long journey, when he has got squaws and baggage with him, a red-skin never goes at a walk, and the horses will keep on at this lope for hours.

  24. Now Istra Nash knew perfectly that the customs persons were not ready to examine her baggage as yet.

  25. I suppose she wants me to help her with her baggage and the customs and all them things.

  26. The while derricks were swaying in and out, whipping the baggage from the holds of the lighters that lay alongside, grinding heavily in the swell, fenders notwithstanding.

  27. Three minutes before the train started, bag and baggage we bundled out again.

  28. The system of checking the baggage is, however, admirable.

  29. At the small station of Salida three engines were waiting for us, and the train was broken into two, the baggage cars and one engine preceding us.

  30. The remainder of the baggage was more or less injured, and two trunks were completely wrecked, and their contents strewn on the ground.

  31. We used to arrive each night at our destination enshrouded in a film of the same, and there was difficulty amongst the passengers in claiming their small hand-baggage from amongst a pile of dust-smothered luggage.

  32. When it did arrive we made up a train of twelve cars, with the arrears of passengers and baggage from the late "wash out.

  33. He says that he set Mr Maynard down, and helped to carry his baggage aboard the boat.

  34. His baggage and the boat-signal answered this question.

  35. And then at last everything was accomplished--our baggage upon the seats beside us and our berths secured.

  36. You may not have seen the baggage here," continued the captain slyly.

  37. There was no possibility of taking much baggage with us.

  38. The prince's army was badly off for provisions for either man or horse; but they cheerfully spent the remainder of the day in strengthening their defences, and arranging their baggage behind them, as at Creçy.

  39. Another moment and they would have been in full flight, but in the rear of Henry's army, where the priests and baggage were posted, there rose a loud tumult, and messengers came galloping to say they were attacked by a large force.

  40. The duke had ordered them to post the horses and baggage in the rear, to plant their pointed stakes in front, and wait.

  41. Four bannerets led the way successfully; the rest of the army and the baggage followed rapidly in their track; and in twelve hours the English had arrived safely on the right bank.

  42. At least a dozen slaves were occupied in carrying my baggage from outside the gates to my domicile, each carrying some trifle.

  43. My Said returned this afternoon, bringing the baggage from The Wady.

  44. The advanced portion of the ghafalah had disposed of their camels and baggage before I got up to the well.

  45. Sent off Said, with a man of this place, to fetch my trunk and other baggage left in The Wady.

  46. They furnished three canoes, two for baggage and one covered with a palm-leaf awning for ourselves.

  47. After many delays, we put our baggage into one canoe, and ourselves into the other, and pushed off into the rapid current of the Napo.

  48. Their little caravans are the only baggage and express trains in the republic; there is not a single regularly established public conveyance in the land.

  49. By noon, October 30th, we had seen our Andean collections in the hands of arrieros bound for Guayaquil, whence they were to be shipped by way of Panama to Washington, and our baggage train for Napo headed toward the rising sun.

  50. A baggage animal would tie us down to tracks.

  51. Not too fast, or we shall leave the baggage behind.

  52. Maitre Quennebert, "if the baggage isn't making eyes at him already!

  53. This false move would have done them serious harm, had not most of the Stradiotes, seeing the baggage alone and undefended, rushed after that in hope of booty, instead of following up their advantage.

  54. They were to go over the next day with arms and baggage right into the French army; so the last hope of the wretched Ludovico and his generals must needs be in their disguise.

  55. Thus far I have confined my efforts to thwart this plan, and have reduced baggage so that I can pick up and start in any direction; but I regard the pursuit of Hood as useless.

  56. When all had been carried up, the canoe was launched into the quiet water a few hundred yards above the fall, the baggage was replaced in it, and the travellers were ready to continue their voyage.

  57. Then Jasper collected together as much of the baggage as he could carry, and clambered up the bank with it, until he reached the still water at the top of the fall.

  58. I have got my ticket, and my baggage is on board the Creole.

  59. We then pushed on about four miles beyond Vermillionville, where we halted to wait until our baggage wagon arrived.

  60. There every pound of the baggage had to be unloaded once more, and after that once more carried from the landing into the boats at the foot of the island.

  61. The people and houses crossed it swimming, and the baggage was carried over in a balsa, a sort of hide-raft.

  62. In view of the fact that she was still in her blankets, he did not make it a long conversation, and, heroically declining a second cup of coffee, he removed himself and his heaped and shifted baggage from her tent.

  63. Lighter pieces of baggage and outfit were floating inside the boat.

  64. It is late now, Jacob, and it is as much as they will be able to do to get through the cabin passengers' baggage before dark; indeed it is probable they will only examine the light luggage.

  65. I drove them down to the wharf and saw the baggage carried on board the steamer.


  66. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "baggage" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.