Sentence examples for shipped himself from inspiring English sources

In 1849 he arranged to receive a large crate that contained the escaped slave Henry Brown, soon known as Box Brown, who shipped himself from Virginia to freedom.

As a Portland executive, he shipped himself to the Indiana Pacers in 1983 for a couple of weeks of his marketing expertise in exchange for point guard Don Buse.

A New York shipping clerk shipped himself to Dallas from New York and startled his parents and a deliveryman by crashing out of a cargo crate, leaving officials scrambling to figure out how he had eluded airport security.

The scam was as bold and as simple as that of Henry (Box) Brown, the slave who, in 1849, simply closed himself in a crate and shipped himself North to freedom.

Instead, he sought to forge an artistic career and shipped himself to Australia through the Ten Pound Pom scheme, a one-way ticket to the country, which was free for those under 18 and £10 for adults.

But it wasn't until his mid-twenties, after he shipped himself out to sea and spent nearly six years soaked in alcohol at various shipping ports, that the future Pulitzer Prize winner would begin writing plays.

He said he buys them from Stuff-a-Bagel in Farmingdale and handles the wrapping and shipping himself.

A man who embarrassed transportation security personnel in September by shipping himself undetected in a crate from New York City to his parents' home in suburban Dallas, pleaded guilty in Federal District Court to stowaway charges.

After the rehearsals for Swans' forthcoming tour are finished, he will allow himself three days off to get married before the band go on the road for the next 18 months, probably recording a live album along the way, which he'll assemble and ship himself.

I appreciate that Schulz points out the statistical anomaly of a person gaining freedom by extraordinary methods, such as shipping himself in a box, but her interpretation that highlighting these stories serves primarily to bolster white people's opinions of themselves still puts the focus on white lives.

He began to concoct elaborate schemes with a fellow-inmate named Teddy Green, an escape artist and bank robber who had once dressed as a priest to elude the police and had broken out of the state penitentiary by shipping himself out in a box of rags.