Sentence examples for wagonload from inspiring English sources

Then a wagonload of noisy gypsies bowl in, invite the daughter to come with them to America, and help themselves to water from the house's well – before being seen off unceremoniously.

Brodeur, who is forty, was perhaps outplayed in his best era by Patrick Roy and Dominik Hasek, but he has been consistently dependable, and he has a wagonload of records.

The rest of us — two fighters, a cleric, a magic user, and a rogue — were told that we had been hired to deliver a wagonload of supplies to the town of Phandalin.

I admired him because no matter what he did, there was always a wagonload of people around him telling him why it couldn't be done and that he was probably crazy.

His film is an adaptation of the novel by the late Stieg Larsson, the first of a trilogy, which has sold by the wagonload around the world.

Jaromir Jagr has gone to Siberia, for a wagonload of petrodollars.

This was partly because Gutenberg with his printing press had put wagonloads of books within the reach of people who had never read before; and also because printing had torn down the wall between haves and have-nots, literate and illiterate, rich and poor, until whole power-structures toppled.

When wagonloads of Mormon pioneers under the leadership of Brigham Young first entered the valley of the Great Salt Lake in 1847, they were determined to transform the arid valley land into a green and wholesome "kingdom of God".

The rhetoric of cleansing parish churches of idolatrous and sacrilegious images sounded hollow as wagonloads of gold and silver objects headed toward the smelter's shop in the lord protector's backyard.

The Hallelujah Trail (1965) was a western spoof centring on a cavalry colonel (Lancaster) who tries to deliver 40 wagonloads of whiskey to miners in the face of stiff opposition from temperance activists (led by Lee Remick).

During the three centuries following Sixtus V, wagonloads of cultural treasures were delivered to the Vat, hoarded by appetitive Popes or offered up by humble, grateful, or politically ambitious conquerors and monarchs.