The Railway Anecdote Book: A Collection of Anecdotes and Incidents of Travel by River and RailD. Appleton & Company, 1864 - 238 páginas |
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... light and bristly . A snuff - colored coat of do- mestic manufacture adorned the upper part of his person . It was an ancient affair . The velvet was worn from the collar in several places , but which was carefully patched with red ...
... light and bristly . A snuff - colored coat of do- mestic manufacture adorned the upper part of his person . It was an ancient affair . The velvet was worn from the collar in several places , but which was carefully patched with red ...
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... light . A Boston broker some time ago purchased a quantity of coin , of which the history was as follows : The coin was purchased of the heirs of an old man who died in Barnstable County , Mass . He was an old resident of that county ...
... light . A Boston broker some time ago purchased a quantity of coin , of which the history was as follows : The coin was purchased of the heirs of an old man who died in Barnstable County , Mass . He was an old resident of that county ...
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... light but through the bung - hole , they put me on a sled , and drove me some four miles up a hill , and then rolled me off to starve . This I undoubtedly should have done , but for a very singular occurrence . The wolves smelled me out ...
... light but through the bung - hole , they put me on a sled , and drove me some four miles up a hill , and then rolled me off to starve . This I undoubtedly should have done , but for a very singular occurrence . The wolves smelled me out ...
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... light carriage it can be easily done . " " I shall not want even that ; I have all my despatches ready in my pocket , and shall go upon the engine . " " You will hardly have eyes left in your head if you do , sir . put to . " Better ...
... light carriage it can be easily done . " " I shall not want even that ; I have all my despatches ready in my pocket , and shall go upon the engine . " " You will hardly have eyes left in your head if you do , sir . put to . " Better ...
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... lights of the huge iron roof , and sparkled among the web of interlaced bars and bolts which stretched , in vistas of angles and lozenges , and all manner of mathematical figures beneath it - the metallic rafters of the terminus . On ...
... lights of the huge iron roof , and sparkled among the web of interlaced bars and bolts which stretched , in vistas of angles and lozenges , and all manner of mathematical figures beneath it - the metallic rafters of the terminus . On ...
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Palavras e frases frequentes
ain't Allerton Aminadab Arkansas Traveler arms ARTEMUS WARD asked Assyria baby beautiful bell better Bill Bill Berry Billy Gibbons boat Bridgit Broadway called Camp Dennison Captain Meath carpet-bag cents Colonel Courland cried dear Dick Turpin dollars door engine Euchre exclaimed eyes face father feet gave give Grigson hand head heard heart HOOSIER horse hour hundred inquired Judge knew lady landlord laugh looked miles mind Miss morning mother never night Ninus Offenbach old gentleman passed passengers play pomology poor railway Redbrow replied returned river seat Semiramis shouted side sleep smile soon stand steamboat stood stopped story stranger street Talleyrand tell thar there's thing thought told took train travelling turned walked Westhorpe wife woman words young
Passagens conhecidas
Página 159 - Touched by remembrance trembles to that pole ; For in this land of heaven's peculiar grace, The heritage of nature's noblest race, There is a spot of earth supremely blest, A dearer, sweeter spot than all the rest...
Página 159 - THERE is a land, of every land the pride, Beloved by heaven, o'er all the world beside...
Página 137 - tis wiser Than sitting aside, And dreaming and sighing, And waiting the tide. In life's earnest battle They only prevail Who daily march onward And never say fail...
Página 223 - To the West, to the West, to the land of the free, Where the mighty Missouri rolls down to the sea; Where a man is a man if he's willing to toil, And the humblest may gather the fruits of the soil...
Página 159 - An angel-guard of loves and graces lie ; Around her knees domestic duties meet, And fireside pleasures gambol at her feet. " Where shall that land, that spot of earth be found...
Página 177 - And I sit and think, when the sunset's gold Is flushing river, and hill, and shore, I shall one day stand by the water cold, And list for the sound of the boatman's oar ; I shall watch for a gleam of the...
Página 98 - Come, let your brown hair just lighted with gold Fall on your shoulders again as of old : Let it drop over my forehead to-night, Shading my faint eyes away from the light ; For with its sunny-edged shadows once more Haply will throng the sweet visions of yore ; Lovingly, softly, its bright billows sweep ; Rock me to sleep, mother, rock me to sleep.
Página 116 - Can little now avail to them. But if the page of truth they sought, Or comfort to the mourner brought, These hands a richer meed shall claim Than all that wait on Wealth or Fame.
Página 116 - And when it could not praise was chained ; If bold in Virtue's cause it spoke, Yet gentle concord never broke — This silent tongue shall plead for thee When Time unveils Eternity! Say, did these fingers delve the mine...
Página 164 - And diminished the basket's store — But his feet grew cold— so weary and cold — They'll never be warm any more — And this nook, in its emptiness, seemeth to me To give forth no voice but the moan of the sea. " Two others have gone toward the setting sun, And made them a home in its light, And fairy fingers have taken their share To mend by the fireside bright; Some other baskets their garments fill — But mine!