Highways and HorsesChapman and Hall, limited, 1888 - 471 pages |
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Page viii
... appear unusually distinguishable , but over the metropolis of the world - as some too patriotic Englishmen have designated London - there is that over- whelming and invulnerable darkness , which bears not the slightest resemblance to ...
... appear unusually distinguishable , but over the metropolis of the world - as some too patriotic Englishmen have designated London - there is that over- whelming and invulnerable darkness , which bears not the slightest resemblance to ...
Page x
... appears perfectly satisfied . Whether he can drive or no , is a matter upon which they are frequently not qualified ... appear as though they wanted an extra hand , three instead of two - one for the whip , two for the reins - since when ...
... appears perfectly satisfied . Whether he can drive or no , is a matter upon which they are frequently not qualified ... appear as though they wanted an extra hand , three instead of two - one for the whip , two for the reins - since when ...
Page xii
... appear strong enough to make them study to any advantage . Riders and drivers who do both things indifferently are frequently unapproachable in the matter of advice . Provided . that they start on a ride or drive , and return without ...
... appear strong enough to make them study to any advantage . Riders and drivers who do both things indifferently are frequently unapproachable in the matter of advice . Provided . that they start on a ride or drive , and return without ...
Page xvii
... appear either to escape their observation or meet with no rebuke or interference from them whatever . It is amongst the ... appears in this work treating exclusively on that subject , by saying that under no circumstances , except in the ...
... appear either to escape their observation or meet with no rebuke or interference from them whatever . It is amongst the ... appears in this work treating exclusively on that subject , by saying that under no circumstances , except in the ...
Page xviii
... appears to people living at the present day as an invention of the very latest date may be only an old practice revived- something which existed centuries ago but was never completed or sufficiently established in people's favour to ...
... appears to people living at the present day as an invention of the very latest date may be only an old practice revived- something which existed centuries ago but was never completed or sufficiently established in people's favour to ...
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Page 356 - Now in building of chaises, I tell you what, There is always somewhere a weakest spot, In hub, tire, felloe, in spring or thill, In panel, or crossbar, or floor , or sill, In screw, bolt, thoroughbrace, — lurking still, Find it somewhere you must and will, Above or below, or within or without, And that's the reason, beyond a doubt, A chaise breaks down but doesn't wear out. But the Deacon swore (as Deacons do, With an "I dew vum...
Page 357 - He would build one shay to beat the taown 'n' the keounty 'n' all the kentry raoun' ; It should be so built that it couldn' break daown . — " Fur," said the Deacon, " 't's mighty plain Thut the weakes' place mus' stan the strain ; 'n' the way t' fix it, uz I maintain, Is only jest T" make that place uz strong uz the rest.
Page 357 - ... em, Never an axe had seen their chips, And the wedges flew from between their lips, Their blunt ends frizzled like celery-tips; Step and prop-iron, bolt and screw, Spring, tire, axle, and linchpin too, Steel of the finest, bright and blue; Thoroughbrace bison-skin, thick and wide; Boot, top, dasher, from tough old hide Found in the pit when the tanner died. That was the way he 'put her through.
Page 274 - I'll example you with thievery : The sun's a thief, and with his great attraction Robs the vast sea : the moon's an arrant thief, And her pale fire she snatches from the sun...
Page 190 - Hobson kept a stable of forty good cattle, always ready and fit for travelling: but when a man came for a horse, he was led into the stable, where there was great choice, but he obliged him to take the horse which stood next to the stable door: so that every customer was alike well served according to his chance, and every horse ridden with the same justice: from whence it became a proverb, when what ought to be your election was forced upon you to say
Page 299 - Clouds too ! And a mist upon the Hollow! Not a dull fog that hides it, but a light airy gauze-like mist, which in our eyes of modest admiration gives a new charm to the beauties it is spread before: as real gauze has done ere now, and would again, so please you, though we were the Pope.
Page 358 - Huddup!" said the parson — Off went they. The parson was working his Sunday's text — Had got to fifthly, and stopped perplexed At what the — Moses — was coming next. All at once the horse stood still, Close by the meet'n'-house on the hill. — First a shiver, and then a thrill, Then something decidedly like a spill — And the parson was sitting upon a rock, At half-past nine by the meet'n'-house clock — • Just the hour of the Earthquake shock ! — What do you think the parson found,...
Page 299 - The beauty of the night is hardly felt, when Day comes leaping up. Yoho ! Two stages, and the country roads are almost changed to a continuous street. Yoho, past marketgardens, rows of houses, villas, crescents, terraces, and squares; past...
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