was freighting
- past progressive of freight.
Example Sentences
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He was freighting supplies up the Yellowstone for the great Crane Creek irrigation dam, sixty miles above the mouth.
From The River and I by Neihardt, John G.
"But likely it was then, while you was freighting the outfit around to the glacier, you came across those ptarmigan."
From The Rim of the Desert by Anderson, Ada Woodruff
Well, I finally found an Oregon man with a yoke of oxen, who was freighting goods up to Coloma.
From The Adventures of a Forty-niner An Historic Description of California, with Events and Ideas of San Francisco and Its People in Those Early Days by Ivanowski, Sigismond de
Very soon they joined the curious crowd who were examining the contents of the canoe, now placed on the land to await the coming of a steamer that was freighting with cotton above.
From The Memories of Fifty Years Containing Brief Biographical Notices of Distinguished Americans, and Anecdotes of Remarkable Men; Interspersed with Scenes and Incidents Occurring during a Long Life of Observation Chiefly Spent in the Southwest by Sparks, William Henry
One evening two or three years later Bronco Mitchel was freighting down near the border, and he made his camp at the mouth of Bisbee Cañon.
From When the West Was Young by Bechdolt, Frederick R. (Frederick Ritchie)
