"Lade" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... ails th' mist iv him an' where he got such funny lookin' parents fr'm, has thim to blame that brought him into th' wurruld if he dayvilops into a sicond story man befure he's twinty-wan an' is took up be th' polis. Why don't you lade Packy down to th' occylist an' have him fitted with a pair iv eyeglasses? Why don't ye put goloshes on him, give him a blue umbrelly an' call him a doctor at wanst an' ...
— Mr. Dooley's Philosophy • Finley Peter Dunne
... BALE, TO. To lade water out of a ship or vessel with buckets (which were of old called bayles), cans, or the like, when the pumps ...
— The Sailor's Word-Book • William Henry Smyth
... desire to emulate English statesmen and English institutions in his heart! Look, also, at the able and larned Irishman who stands at the head of the University of that same methropolis of the West, and whose eloquence so mystifies his faithlessness to Ireland as to confuse you, and almost lade you captive, until, on cooler deliberation, you find that his response to 'the toast of the evenin,' is naither more nor less than a superb burst of oratory, robed in green and goold, but with a heart as purely English ...
— Ridgeway - An Historical Romance of the Fenian Invasion of Canada • Scian Dubh
... enough. I heerd something scramin' all the night. I thought it might be a banshee, if thair is that crayther in this counthry. A bird, you say? What of that? Its squalling won't give us any iggs, nor lade to its nest nayther." ...
— The Castaways • Captain Mayne Reid
... to be Mayor once more, And after that, to be Governore— As if you wouldn't be needed before, To lade the Faynians over. And they say you raise this hullabaloo, 'Bout Ireland's wrongs, and Cuba's too, That Irish fools might cotton to you, And you might sit ...
— Punchinello, Vol. 1, No. 1, Saturday, April 2, 1870 • Various
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