Porters Sentence Examples

The porters of the town are all Kurds, the river-men Chaldaean Christians.

The head gardener also has a pigeonhole with the porters.

Hotel porters, hairdressers and cloakroom attendants also expect to be tipped.

From this day we no longer had porters - we had yaks.

Many of these found their way to Crete, and becoming porters, &c. in Canea and Candia, were notorious for turbulence and fanaticism.

Lukungu, situated on the banks of the river of that name, a southern tributary of the Congo, about half-way between Matadi and Stanley Pool, was formerly the capital of the Falls district, and the chief recruiting station for porters on the lower Congo.

He also described how civilian porters were forced to act as human minesweepers, triggering landmines with their own bodies.

The Porters ' Lodge is to the right inside of the main entrance; it also contains the pigeonholes.

A rest stop during the day's trek The porters were quite amazing.

Do not be afraid to ask the porters in your college about any practical problems you have.

For waste removal, they employed unsuspecting local porters and on one occasion the guide.

In a study of Nepalese porters, 45 per cent had experienced medical problems on treks.

He later christened an elite group of high altitude porters the " Tigers " .

Don't leave them with hotel porters for safe keeping.

Soon it may even feel self-important enough to display its scores outside the porters ' lodge.

The main entrance is +3, +1 stairs through a set of very heavy double doors to the Porters ' Lodge.

Further, it is subsequently found that certain classes of temple servants, the singers and porters, who had once been outside the Levitical gilds, became absorbed as the term "Levite" was widened, and this change is formally expressed by the genealogies which ascribe to Levi, the common "ancestor" of them all, the singers and even certain families whose heathenish and foreign names show that they were once merely servants of the temple.3 2.

There were, besides, the slaves who accompanied the master and mistress out of doors, and were chosen for their beauty and grace as guards of honour, for their strength as chairmen or porters, or for their readiness and address in remembering names, delivering messages of courtesy and the like.

The great majority of the inhabitants is composed of Indians and half-breeds, from whom come the factory workers, labourers, servants, porters and other menial wage-earners.

The two towns are united by a good road, along which a large traffic is maintained partly by coolie porters but more frequently by means of wheel-barrows, which serve the purpose of cabs and carts.

Requests for testing can be made on a maintenance requisition form at the Porters ' Lodge.

When arriving at the cruise port, passenger may drop their luggage with the porters near the terminal's entrance before parking, or they may park first and bring their luggage to the terminal by hand.

Once luggage is turned over to the cruise porters, it may not be delivered until late - because of this, most ships have a much more permissive dress code in the main dining rooms on the first evening.

The older formation of the Quaternary period is the Lafayette (also called "Orange-sand" or "stratified drift"), which immediately overlies all the Cretaceous groups except the prairies of the Selma chalk, and all the Tertiary except the Porters Creek and Vicksburg formations and parts of the Jackson.

Many find employment as artisans, small dealers, porters and soldiers in Egypt, where they are usually noted for their honesty, and frank and cheerful temperament.

To the east of the town a large Arab village had grown up, inhabited for the most part by natives of Egypt and Cyrenaica, who acted as boatmen, porters and servants, but since the fall of the Turkish government most of these have quitted the island; while about a mile off on the rising ground is the village of Khalepa, where the consuls and merchants reside.

Grant, some so Sudanese soldiers, and about 250 porters, armed with Snider carbines.

The men, too, resented the fact that their pay was but a fifth of that given to Zanzibari porters and to those of their own body enlisted in the adjoining protectorate.

Home industries such as the metal-working round Keswick (founded in 1884 by Canon and Mrs Rawnsley), executed during hours of idleness by field labourers and railway porters, educate the passer-by as well as the worker.

The physique is good, and porters carry on journeys from 100 to 200 lb.

Oppression by the throne and the official and noble classes prevailed extensively; but the weak protected themselves by the use of the Kyei, or principle of association, which developed among Koreans into powerful trading gilds, trades-unions, mutual benefit associations, money-lending guilds, &c. Nearly all traders, porters and artisans were members of guilds, powerfully bound together and strong by combined action and mutual helpfulness in time of need.

Cases of plague occurred, however, on the ship, and on the 22nd of June among porters unloading the cargo.

In it are carried, by literati and merchants, the pen-case and a roll of paper; its voluminous folds are used as pockets; by the bazaar people and villagers, porters and merchants servants, a small sheath knife is struck in it; while by farrashes, the carpet-spreader class, a large khanjar, or curved dagger, with a heavy ivory handle, is carried.

Baggage On the majority of treks all your trek baggage will be carried by porters or pack animals.

A variety of travelers attempt to wade across the river with the help of porters.

There will be a number of trolleys available at the port, and porters can assist with loading your luggage onto the appropriate cart.

Travelers should note that the porters are not cruise line employees and the cruise line is not responsible for any mishandling or misdirection of luggage.