The World on Wheels and Other SketchesS. C. Griggs & Company, 1874 - 258 páginas |
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The World on Wheels and Other Sketches: By Benj. F. Taylor Benjamin Franklin Taylor Visualização completa - 1874 |
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aboard Adamite ALEXANDER WINCHELL baggage beautiful bell birds blessed brakeman breath caboose carpet-bag CHAPTER Chicago Christian Christmas church cloth cloud coach comes common carrier CONCORD COACH conductor crows dead deck door ears engine eyes face fancy fashion feet fire Fort Scott girls gold gone green grow hand head heard heart heaven horse human hundred iron JONAS LIE laugh light live LL.D locomotive look Lucy Michigan miles an hour minute Missouri Mungo Park never night Number OLE BULL once Paradise Lost passengers pleasant prairie railroad railway road roll sang seat side sing song star steam steamer stove swing talk tell thing thought thousand ticket took Tophet touch track train watch whip-poor-will wilderness WILLIAM MATHEWS wind window wonder wood word world on wheels York young
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Página 40 - Oh that I had the wings of a dove, that I might fly away and be at rest,
Página 240 - The winds roared, and the rains fell. The poor white man, faint and weary, came and sat under our tree. He has no mother to bring him milk; no wife to grind his corn.
Página 139 - So lone and lovely, through this bleak way ? Are Erin's sons so good or so cold As not to be tempted by woman or gold ? " "Sir Knight ! I feel not the least alarm, No son of Erin will offer me harm : For, though they love women and golden store, Sir Knight ! they love honour and virtue more.