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"Haul" Quotes from Famous Books

... was certainly something in it. The merchant felt sure that the fishermen were having a good haul. ...

— Fifty Famous People • James Baldwin

... "'Now, haul away,' I said; 'there is a ladder bent on to the other end, which you must make fast to ...

— Graham's Magazine Vol XXXII. No. 3. March 1848 • Various

... make a start now, and haul one or two of those logs out with the oxen," he said. "Still, I'm afraid you must not expect too much from me for a ...

— The Greater Power • Harold Bindloss

... be sorry to hear you speak otherwise," answered the tempter. "You are a fine young fellow, honorable, brave as a lion, and as gentle as a young girl. You would be a fine haul for the devil! I like youngsters of your sort. Get rid of one or two more prejudices, and you will see the world as it is. Make a little scene now and then, and act a virtuous part in it, and a man with a head on his shoulders can do exactly as he likes amid deafening applause ...

— Father Goriot • Honore de Balzac

... most of its history has already been written, that it will have no important future. As a port of shipment, I think it must yield to the new port, Nipe Bay, on the north coast. It is merely a bit of commercial logic, the question of a sixty-mile rail-haul as compared with a voyage around the end of the island. Santiago will not be wiped from the map, but I doubt its long continuance as the leading commercial centre of eastern Cuba. It is also a fairly safe prediction that the same laws ...

— Cuba, Old and New • Albert Gardner Robinson

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