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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... told where the ball had struck , and bore fearful testimony to the accuracy of Dr. Dunshunner's practice . Believing these experiments more curious than useful , I abandoned the use of the " Heliotrope " or its substitutes , and ...
... told where the ball had struck , and bore fearful testimony to the accuracy of Dr. Dunshunner's practice . Believing these experiments more curious than useful , I abandoned the use of the " Heliotrope " or its substitutes , and ...
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... told they have prepared for me , but feel too much delicacy to speak to me about . I remain , with the highest respect and esteem for myself and everybody else , JOHN PHOENIX , A. M. , Chief Engineer and Astronomer ...
... told they have prepared for me , but feel too much delicacy to speak to me about . I remain , with the highest respect and esteem for myself and everybody else , JOHN PHOENIX , A. M. , Chief Engineer and Astronomer ...
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... told the Yankee if he wished to see the captain , he was the confmander of the boat . " Dew tell ? Wal , I swan , you have got a kind of commanding way about you , that's a fact . " " What do you wish ? " said the captain . " Wal , I ...
... told the Yankee if he wished to see the captain , he was the confmander of the boat . " Dew tell ? Wal , I swan , you have got a kind of commanding way about you , that's a fact . " " What do you wish ? " said the captain . " Wal , I ...
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... told their dreams of a steam - wagon , for even the name of " locomotive " was then as unknown as " locofoco . " When about a year after the declaration of the last war with England - and may it be the last - I got a letter from Jabez ...
... told their dreams of a steam - wagon , for even the name of " locomotive " was then as unknown as " locofoco . " When about a year after the declaration of the last war with England - and may it be the last - I got a letter from Jabez ...
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... told me he believed he had " got the notion . " " Notion ? what notion ? " I inquired . " Why , " says he , " that steam - wagon I told you of a spell ago ; but it has pretty nigh starved out : " and sure enongh he did look as if he had ...
... told me he believed he had " got the notion . " " Notion ? what notion ? " I inquired . " Why , " says he , " that steam - wagon I told you of a spell ago ; but it has pretty nigh starved out : " and sure enongh he did look as if he had ...
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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
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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!