Word: laden
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...hall, and went up into a galarye of twenty-four stayres of heyght. It being exceedingly cold the Earl complained that the fire was not large enough, when a person named Ervalton of Spayne, went down stayers, and beneth in the court he saw a great many of asses laden with woode to serve the house, that he went and tooke one of the greatest asses with al the woode, and layde him on hys back, and went up al the stayrs into the galary, and dyd caste downe the asse with al the woode into the chimney...
...need not say, therefore, that on such a joyous occasion as this quincentenary jubilee beer must needs flow like water. And the long trucks, heavily laden, innumerable, which rolled by my window in Untere Neckarstrasse on their way to the Festhalle bore, witness to this truth. But on last Friday evening all the glad bibulation culminated in one grand "Bier Kommers," in which all the members of the university participated. It was held in the great Fest Halle and was attended by from four to five thousand persons. At eight and a half o'clock the bout began...
...Melancthon, with his robes about him, is expounding some knotty point of doctrine to the grave monk beside him. The end of the sixteenth century finds the gay court at its gayest. There are splendid cars with Ceres, Bacchus, Venus, sitting on them, while vineyard laborers, with grape-laden baskets, dance about them. Then comes Sileuns, reeling from his ass and surrounded by a fantastic bevy of mymphs satyrs, demons, goblins and bats. We move forward to the 13th of June, 1613, and ill starred Frederick of Bohemia, with his bride Elizabeth, daughter of James of England, heads a stately...
...Friday last, at five minutes past twelve, there left Harvard Square two street-cars, laden with two tons of humanity and half a ton, more or less, of yet-to-be-developed music. The passengers were the members of the "Pierian Sodality and Harvard Glee Club," billed to appear in a concert at Portland. The street-cars, driven at the exhilarating speed usual in Cambridge, reached the main depot in ample time for the Portland train, and unloaded their freight into a couple of drawing-room cars. These immediately assumed a character which it is safe to say they never...
...spacious new grandstand was densely packed with specta tors, Yale students for the most part, while crowds took up their position along the ropes stretching toward first and third bases: In the rear of the spectators some two score of drags, barouches, and dog-carts took their positions, laden with the lady supporters of the Blue and their escorts. Soon after three o'clock the cry of "Harvard this way !" lustily shouted by half a hundred wearers of the Crimson, summoned the Harvard delegation of almost 200 to a point behind first base, where the party took seats upon...