To his second officer he had expressed a desire for a typhoon that would roll the deadlights out of his boat, and blow the hyphenated "garden truck" into the Sulu Sea.
"The Locusts' Years"
Mary Helen Fee
For example, the suppression of the truck system, which is sometimes condemned as an undue interference with freedom of contract, was strongly supported by Smith, who declared it to be "quite just and equitable," inasmuch as it merely secured to the workmen the pay they were entitled to receive and "imposed no real hardship on the masters-it only obliged them to pay that value in money which they pretended to pay, but did not really pay, in goods."
"Contemporary Socialism"
John Rae
"Well," he ejaculated, "if you can raise steam on that kind of truck, I most certainly can't.
"A Prairie Courtship"
Harold Bindloss