 ... nearer and still nearer, and the flutter of the hoofs comes faintly to the ear — another instant a whoop and a hurrah from our upper deck, a wave of the rider's hand, but no reply, and man and horse burst past our excited faces, and go winging away...  The Stamp-collector's magazine - Page 1031871Full view - About this book
 | Mark Twain - 1873 - 620 pages
...another instant a whoop and a hurrah from our upper deck, a wave of the rider's hand, but no reply, and man and horse burst past our excited faces, and go...flake of white foam left quivering and perishing on ft mail-sack after the vision had flashed by and disappeared, wo ''might have doubted whether we had... | |
 | Montgomery Gibbs - 1874 - 326 pages
...Another instant a whoop and a hurrah from our upper deck, a wave of the rider's hand, but no reply, and man and horse burst past our excited faces, and go winging away like a belated fragment ofa storm ! So sudden is it all, and so like a flash of unreal fancy, that but for a flake of white... | |
 | A. W. Patterson - Readers - 1875 - 252 pages
...whoop and a hurrah from tho upper deck of our coach, a wave of the rider's hand, but no reply, and man and horse burst past our excited faces, and go winging away like a belated fragment of a storm. MARK TWAIN. LESSON II. HOW LAMP-CHIMNEYS ABE MADE. J>AET FIKST. Spa'ciOUS, roomy. Fur'na^'e, a hot... | |
 | Montgomery Gibbs - Canada - 1875 - 360 pages
...Another instant a whoop and a hurrah from our upper deck, a wave of the rider's hand, but no reply, and man and horse burst past our excited faces, and go...and so like a flash of unreal fancy, that but for a flake of white foam left quivering and perishing on a mail-sack after the vision had passed by and... | |
 | Englishman - 1876 - 268 pages
...Another instant a whoop and a hurrah from our upper deck, a wave of the rider's hand, but no reply, and man and horse burst past our excited faces, and go...and so like a flash of unreal fancy, that but for a flake of white foam left quivering and perishing on a mail-sack after the vision had passed by and... | |
 | Textbooks - 1878 - 254 pages
...whoop and a hurrah from the upper deck of our coach, a wave of the rider's hand, but no reply, and man and horse burst past our excited faces, and go winging away like a belated fragment of a storm. MARK TWAIN. LESSON II. HOW LAMP-CHIMNEYS ABE MADE. PAET FIRST. Spa'ciOUS, roomy. Fur'nacje, a hot oven.... | |
 | Montgomery Gibbs - 1878 - 346 pages
...instant a whoop and a hurrah from our upper deck, a wave of the rider's hand, but no reply, and man aud horse burst past our excited faces, and go winging away like a belated fragment ofa storm ! So sudden is it all, and so like a flash of unreal fancy, that but for a flake of white... | |
 | Montgomery Gibbs - 1879 - 340 pages
...Another instant a whoop and a hurrah from our upper deck, a wave of the rider's hand, but no reply, and man and horse burst past our excited faces, and go winging away like a belated fragment ofa storm ! So sudden is it all, and so like a flash of unreal fancy, that but for a flake of white... | |
 | Englishman - 1880 - 332 pages
...Another instant a whoop and a hurrah from our upper deck, a wave of the rider's hand, but no reply, and man and horse burst past our excited faces, and go winging away like a belated fragment ofa storm ! So sudden is it all, and so like a flash of unreal fancy, that but for a flake of white... | |
 | Alexander Lovett Stimson - Express service - 1881 - 452 pages
...another instant a whoop and a hurrah from our upper deck, a wave of the rider's hand, but no reply, and man and horse burst past our excited faces, and go winging away like the belated fragment of a storm." CHAPTER XX. CALTFORNIA EXPRESS. AT THE GOLDEN GATE. CALIFORNIA, THE... | |
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