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...Excerpt: A Slow Journey. Again two carriages stood at the front door of the house at Petrovskoe. In one of them sat Mimi, the two girls, and their maid, with the bailiff, Jakoff, on the box, while in the other-- a britchka--sat Woloda, myself, and our servant ...

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...Boyhood by Leo Tolstoy Translated by CJ Hogarth I A SLOW JOURNEY AGAIN TWO CARRIAGES stood at the front door of the house at Petrovskoe. In one of the... ...on the entrance-steps. He made the sign of the cross at the windows of the carriages, and said: “Christ go with you! Good-bye.” Jakoff and our coachma... ...n answer, and also made the sign of the cross. “Amen. God go with us!” The carriages began to roll away, and the birch-trees of the great avenue filed... ... gestures. Likewise, red-haired 9 Boyhood waiters came darting around the carriages to invite us, with words and signs, to select their several hoste... ...own, as well as at the women and children who stared with curiosity at our carriages and then became lost to sight for ever, and the peasants and work...

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... (Railroad), considered one of his main works, is a story of an elderly couple who hear about railroad first time ever and have a hard time imagining carriages with no horses. They eventually get around to trying it out. Juhani Ahon esikoisromaani vuodelta 1884, Rautatie, on kertomus maaseudun ukosta ja akasta, jotka kuulevat naapurikylälle saapuneesta uudesta ihmeestä, il...

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...inned Parsi came on board with John MacGregor to direct the passengers to the waiting horse drawn carriages, which transported them to the railway s... ...pride, ‘This is the first section of railway to be constructed between Bombay and Calcutta.’ The carriages were not as luxurious as the cabins on th... ... State of Mirapore in the foothills of the Himalayas. Their caravan consisted now of horse-drawn carriages for the women and bullock carts for the ... ...tched, range upon range, towards the heavens. The paths were now too steep to allow the lumbering carriages and bullock carts to proceed any further... ...ns. Then it was all over and time for the guests to depart as the Chief Minister organised their carriages. Helen, sitting once again close to Gavi... ...tume in the portrait. The drive, and the road in front of the French Consulate, were packed with carriages and the usual throng of onlookers crowded... ...ikar was a beautiful May day. The Nawab’s guests set out from the palace on elephants, horses and carriages. Helen opted to ride Sultana: the swayin... ...ng the carriage to wherever you felt compelled to go?’ ‘Where I was going, there is no track for carriages,’ and realising that this explanation wa...

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...proper English ladies did not do such things at all, let alone 107 in open carriages. I wanted desperately to do the right thing by my husband. “Yo...

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...reshest. Seventy barrels of fish from different countries were loaded onto carriages and delivered to his restaurant. Meanwhile, Boiler went to the ...

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...a call that would never come. A rusting monorail hung above, less several carriages. Sometime ago, these carriages plummeted to the roadway, thrustin... ...nsive care unit, Roxanne was unsure whether to enter or not. The railway carriages adjoined the prefabricated rooms, which took up a platform. Long... ...fuge on ships as stranded monorail passengers attempted to leave swinging carriages. Unable to make sense of what was happening, he thought to inves...

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...manor house. Rain. A few days later we backtrack to Romorantin on horses. Carriages would not get through. The sun comes out... Francesco and I work ... .... The two got along well. Lying and vying. Francis has offered one of his carriages for the trip to Paris. Niccolò has lost weight. He was always sk... ...on and his half-ass promises, back to city trumpets, strumpets, rattle of carriages, pismire poverty, paunched patrons and perfumed snowballs for th... ...s. Fireworks and rockets explode over the Potomac. Cannon boom. Horsemen, carriages, wagons, buggies, pedestrians...there isn’t a quiet corner in Wa...

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...did camera or another and privacy will be a concept as quaint as horse-drawn carriages and Nintendo 64.”). 74. See, e.g., N J. G  ., A...

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...rations were simple, and combined with the day of Tip Chang. There were no carriages with decorations in the procession, but participants, who were mo...

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...s are now all confounded and disordered, by reason of bag and baggage, of carriages of lackies, and foot-boies, wh ich because of their masters arme...

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...ith which a man’s duties to both, may be accommodated and adjusted. How the carriages rattle up, and deposit their richly dressed burdens beneath th... ...e steps, up jump the Sunday Under Three Heads 7 footmen, and off rattle the carriages: the inmates discours ing on the dresses of the congregation, ... ...e! The afternoon is far advanced — the parks and public drives are crowded. Carriages, gigs, phaetons, stanhopes, and ve hicles of every description... ...isten to the strains of music from within: or stop to gaze upon the splendid carriages which are waiting to convey the guests from the dinner party of... ...r being present at any public meeting or as sembly — penalties for letting carriages, and penalties for hiring them — penalties for travelling in s... ...ot one syllable about those who have no necessity to hire, because they have carriages and horses of their own; not one word of a penalty on liver ie...

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...mud upon the carriage, if anything could shame a carriage, in a land where carriages are never cleaned. Everybody is brisk; and as we finish breakfast... ...nt in themselves. The Corso, where the Milanese gentry ride up and down in carriages, and rather than not do which, they would half starve themselves ... ...l they could find a promising opportunity for fall ing into the stream of carriages, and getting, in good time, into the thick of the festivity; and ... ...day afternoon at one or two o’clock, there began to be a great rattling of carriages into the court yard of the hotel; a hurrying to and fro of all th... ... to the same, to wear it with confidence, and defy public opinion. All the carriages were open, and had the linings carefully covered with white cotto... ...together with such heaps of flowers, tied up in little nosegays, that some carriages were not only brimful of flowers, but literally running over: sca... ...l, we contemplated these arrangements with the liveliest satisfaction. The carriages now beginning to take up their company, and move away, we got int... ...Carnival is held, being vigi lantly kept by dragoons, it is necessary for carriages, in the first instance, to pass, in line, down another thoroughfa... ...ement. Presently, we came into a narrow street, where, besides one line of carriages going, there was another line of car riages returning. Here the ...

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... to the banks of the Beresina found there, unhappily, an immense number of carriages, cais- sons, and articles of all kinds which the army had been fo... ...carcasses of the horses for food, tore the cloth and the curtains from the carriages for coverlets, and went to sleep, instead of continuing their way... ...ier had crossed the bridge, burn, without pity, huts, equipages, caissons, carriages,—everything! Drive that mass of men to the bridge. Compel all tha... ...e, which they were feeding with planks, caisson covers, wheels, and broken carriages. These soldiers were, no doubt, the last comers of that crowd who... ...tance of some two hundred yards the remains of another bridge intended for carriages and de- stroyed the day before. “Let us make a raft!” he cried. H...

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...ke everything else in Egypt, was sandy, hot, and unpleas- ant. The railway carriages were pretty fair, and we had room enough; but even in them the du... ... away. In the middle of the night, however, we were moved from the railway carriages into omnibuses, as they were called, and then I was not comfortab...

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...ed this was a wrecked train, the fore part smashed and on fire, the hinder carriages still upon the rails. Between these three main centres of light—t... ...place was in such confusion as I had never seen in any town before. Carts, carriages every- where, the most astonishing miscellany of conveyances and ... ...aterloo station to find out if communication were restored. The omnibuses, carriages, cyclists, and innumer- able people walking in their best clothes... ...Western stations, and the passage of carriage trucks bearing huge guns and carriages crammed with soldiers. These were the guns that were brought up f... ... were being filled. People were fighting savagely for standing-room in the carriages even at two o’clock. By three, people were being trampled and cru... ...r were mounted on cycles, but there were soon motor cars, hansom cabs, and carriages hurrying along, and the dust hung in heavy clouds along the road ... ...eels, stumbling in the ditches, blundering into one another. The carts and carriages crowded close upon one another, making little way for those swift... ...orses’ bits were covered with foam, their eyes bloodshot. There were cabs, carriages, shop cars, waggons, beyond counting; a mail cart, a road-cleaner... ...es, fifty feet, perhaps, behind a line of four ripped guns and smashed gun carriages. Sheen, it seemed, had escaped destruction, but the place was sil...

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...ountains. There are no roads there for wheeled car- riages, nor are there carriages with or without wheels. All journeys are made on horseback. Ever... ...oint. When they reached Clifton Gate the ladies were already there; not in carriages, as people go to picnics in other and tamer countries, but each o...

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...dside water. This is why in hot weather Intermediates are taken out of the carriages dead, and in all weathers are most properly looked down upon. My ... ... as I got in, and I had just time to hurry to her platform and go down the carriages. There was only one Second-class on the train. I slipped the wind...

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...ie of Hamlet Shakespeare: First Folio 3619 Hangers or so: three of the Carriages infaith are very 3620 deare to fancy, very responsiue to the ... ...20 deare to fancy, very responsiue to the hilts, most delicate 3621 carriages, and of very liberall conceit. 3622 Ham. What call you th... ...rriages, and of very liberall conceit. 3622 Ham. What call you the Carriages? 3623 Osr. The Carriages Sir, are the hangers. 3624 ... ... sixe French Swords: their Assignes, and three 3628 liberall conceited Carriages, that’s the French but a-gainst 3629 the Danish; why is this ...

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...ttle unity as running water, and own as many centres as there are separate carriages in the train. How else, for example, than as a constant watcher f... ...was beautiful. The absolute perfection of all the appoint- ments about the carriages and the harness, their strength, their brilliant cleanliness, the... ...old! to the ordinary display what a heart-shaking addi- tion!—horses, men, carriages, all are dressed in laurels and flowers, oak-leaves and ribbons. ... ... with the paved centre—would prove at- tractive to others. The two adverse carriages would there- fore, to a certainty, be travelling on the same side... ..., according to the law of the case as established by legal precedents, all carriages were required to give way before royal equipages, and therefore b... ... graves within-side the ca- thedrals often form a flat pavement over which carriages and horses might run; and perhaps a boyish remembrance of one par... ...POSTING-HOUSES: inns where relays of horses were furnished for coaches and carriages. Cf. De Quincey on Trav- elling, loc. cit. 4 3 AN OLD TRADITION… ...

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...he enjoyment of money, elegance of dress, of gilded drawing-rooms and fine carriages, became as necessary to her as the compliments of flattery, since... ...ence that were conspicuous in her 13 Balzac dress, her furniture, and her carriages. The satirical spirit in which her brothers and sisters sometimes... ...ichore either in dashing parties on horseback, or in the light and elegant carriages which pow- der the philosophical pedestrian with dust. The hope o...