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About three months ago, I was freighting a party up to the mines," said Smith, "and a youngster became foot-sore.

From The Gold Hunters' Adventures Or, Life in Australia by Champney, James Wells

The disappointment, we trust, will be temporary: when the last vessel sailed, the York was freighting.

From The History of Tasmania , Volume II by West, John

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)

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

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.