| Harleian miscellany - 1810 - 610 pages
...tired jades, to be laid fast in the foul ways, and forced to wade up to the knees in mire; afterwards sit in the cold, till teams of horses can be sent...good their stage i Is it for a man's pleasure, or ad. vamageous to his health and business, to travel with a mixed compnny that he knows not how to converse... | |
| William Oldys, John Malham - Great Britain - 1810 - 606 pages
...tired jades, to be laid fast in the foul ways, and forced te wade up to the knees in mire ; afterwards sit in the cold, till teams of horses can be sent to pull the coach out? Is it fur their health to travel in rotten coaches, and to have their tackle, or pearch, or axletree broken,... | |
| 1838 - 492 pages
...writer, "to be laid fast in the foul ways, and forced to wade up to the knees in mire ; and afterwards to sit in the cold, till teams of horses can be sent to pull the coach out;" but is morally certain to accomplish his journey in a small fraction of that time which was formerly... | |
| British empire - 1847 - 812 pages
...tired jades, to be laid fast in the foul ways, and forced to wade up to the knees in mire ; afterwards sit in the cold till teams of horses can be sent to...travel in rotten coaches, and to have their tackle, or perch, or axletree broken, and then to wait three or four hours, sometimes half a day, to have them... | |
| Telegraph - 1851 - 112 pages
...tired jades, to be laid fast in the foul ways, and forced to wade up to the knees in mire ; afterwards sit in the cold till teams of horses can be sent to...travel in rotten coaches, and to have their tackle, or peich, or axletree broken, and then to wait three or four hours, sometimes half a day, to have them... | |
| Frederick Smeeton Williams - Railroads - 1852 - 418 pages
...laid fast in the foul ways, and forced to wade up to his knees in mire ; afterwards sit in the coach till teams of horses can be sent to pull the coach...travel in rotten coaches, and to have their tackle, or perch, or axletree broken ; and then to wait three or four hours (sometimes half the day), and afterwards... | |
| Frederick Smeeton Williams - Railroads - 1852 - 416 pages
...coach out ? Is it for their health to travel in rotten coaches, and to have their tackle, or perch, or axletree broken ; and then to wait three or four hours (sometimes half the day), and afterwards travel all night to make up their stage?" He benevolently argued, that only... | |
| Book - 1853 - 230 pages
...forced to wade up to the knees in mire? afterwards to sit in the cold till trains of horses can come and pull the coach out ? Is it for their health to travel in rotten coaches, and to have their tackle, or perch, or axletree, broken, and then to wait three to four hours, sometimes half a day to have them... | |
| Charles Knight - Great Britain - 1854 - 342 pages
...tired jades, to be laid fast in the foul ways, and forced to wade up to the knees in mire ; afterwards sit in the cold till teams of horses can be sent to...travel in rotten coaches, and to have their tackle, or perch, or axletree broken, and then to wait three or four hours, sometimes half a day, to have them... | |
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