Here we are with orders to attack anything we can find, no British admiral within a thousand miles, and all we see are a few small coasting vessels carrying grain, almonds, rice, casks of wine, olive oil, salt fish and meat.
It is often said that they carried small casks of brandy around their necks (although this is only legend), in the belief that the liquor had medicinal properties.
Chandos hurried up from the caves, followed by a knot of men carrying casks of varying sizes and weights.
Not an easy footing for men carrying casks, but convenient to the crevices in the surrounding rocks, where the casks could be hidden.
Though no advertisements from the Nevada effort have yet appeared in Evanston's chief paper, the twice-weekly Uinta County Herald, residents say they are beginning to contemplate trains and trucks carrying casks of spent nuclear fuel through town: What if a truck overturns?
In 1554, under 'Bloody' Mary, the City of London corporation forbade anyone to use the nave of St Paul's as a short cut to carry casks of beer, or loads of fruit and fish, from the river to the markets.
Neyana, Pilya and Lis trekked back and forth between the island and the ship, carrying casks of fresh water that they filled from some spring on shore.
Greldik demanded, pointing at the six burly sailors who had carried Xera's bales and casks up the long stairway to the grim fortress brooding over the city.
And then-" "Clouds can't carry casks of water," she announced.
When I first sawiared, standing majestically in the gaping doors of his warehouse, so that streams Of longshoremen carrying casks were forced to go around him, the resemblance was strong enough that I blinked and rubbed my eyes.