Sentence examples for cargo of rice from inspiring English sources

When I asked if I could hire her boat for a sightseeing trip, she relaxed and said: "No, I need to deliver a cargo of rice to a restaurant downriver this afternoon".

In 1813, according to a later account by the captain, Jukichi, the crew of Tokujo-maru, blown off-course for Edo with a cargo of rice, cut their top-knots as an act of purification, and one crew member shaved his head to become a monk.

More than a year earlier a full Japanese crew had set off in the Hojun-maru from the port of Toba with a cargo of rice and ceramics intended as annual tribute for the shogun up the coast in Edo (modern-day Tokyo).

The first reported import in the New World of what is thought to be Carolina Gold occurred in 1685, when a slave ship from Madagascar unloaded a cargo of rice in Charleston, South Carolina.

The French also destroyed three large warehouses containing cargoes of spices, rice and opium and captured three ships, losing two men killed when a cannon shot from the shore struck Sémillante.

Sticky rice is the forbidden carb of rice queens.

So every time he set out with a cargo of chocolate or rice, he would entrust himself to Our Lady of Carmen, the patron saint of drivers.

Half a mile away, filthy, ragged men from Mahadipur village set about unloading a cargo of 58 sacks of rice from a bus which had travelled 50 miles to reach them.

He wrote that the old method of hauling boats over limited the size of the cargo to 300 tan of rice per vessel (roughly 21 LT), but after the pound locks were introduced, boats carrying 400 tan (roughly 28 LT) could then be used.

They collected 15,000 tons of rice, filled a cargo ship and sent it off to Mogadishu.

The first cargo plane carrying 82 metric tonnes of rice landed on Wednesday at Bangui airport, to be followed by daily flights for a month.