Stage-coach and Mail in Days of Yore: A Picturesque History of the Coaching Age ...Chapman & Hall, limited, 1903 |
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Stran 44 - Sir, she had read the old romances, and had got into her head the fantastical notion that a woman of spirit should use her lover like a dog. So, Sir, at first she told me that I rode too fast, and she could not keep up with me; and, when I rode a little slower, she passed me, and complained that I lagged behind. I was not to be made the slave of caprice; and 30 I resolved to begin as I meant to end.
Stran 115 - Thus saith the Lord, Stand ye in the ways, and see, and ask for the old paths, where is the good way, and walk therein, and ye shall find rest for your souls.
Stran 24 - As hearses pass'd, our landlord robb'd the pall, And with the mournful 'scutcheon hung his hall. On unadulterate wine we here regale, And strip the lobster of his scarlet mail.
Stran 89 - Ah, did I not tell you that you would be shaken to death ? ' inquired the black man, when I was creeping along on my stomach. But I gave him no reply. Indeed, I was ashamed ; and I now write this as a warning to all strangers who are inclined to ride in English stage-coaches, and take an outside seat, or, worse still, horror of horrors, a seat in the basket. " From Harborough to Northampton I had a most dreadful journey. It rained incessantly, and as before we had been covered with dust, so now we...
Stran 60 - At both which places, they may be received in a Stage Coach every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, which performs the whole journey in four days (if God permits...
Stran 87 - Persons to whom it is not convenient to pay a full price, instead of the inside, sit on the top of the coach, without any seats or even a rail. By what means passengers thus fasten themselves securely on the roof of these vehicles, I know not...
Stran 81 - The Edinburgh stage-coach, for the better accommodation of passengers, will be altered to a new genteel two-end glass coach machine, hung on steel springs, exceeding light and easy, to go in ten days in summer, and twelve in winter; to set out the first Tuesday in March, and continue it, from Hosea Eastgate's, the Coach and Horses...
Stran 341 - ... gun, (which you are afraid is loaded) — and a snarling lap-dog, in addition to yourself — awaking out of a sound nap, with the cramp in one leg, and the other in a lady's band-box — pay the damage (four or five shillings) for
Stran 42 - Our servant came up and said, "Sir, there is no travelling today. Such a quantity of snow has fallen in the night that the roads are quite filled up." I told him, "At least we can walk twenty miles a day, with our horses in our hands.
Stran 22 - Justices' late meeting there, How many bottles drank, and what their cheer; What lords had been his guests in days of yore, And praised their wisdom much, their drinking more.