 Fair, down to some inches below Stormy. At one time we were all flung together in a heap at the bottom of the coach, and at another we were crushing our heads against the roof. Now, one side was down deep in the mire, and we were holding on to the other....  American Notes for General Circulation - Page 216by Charles Dickens - 1842 - 310 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Charles Dickens - 1842 - 646 pages
...enjoy even the roughest journey. It was well for us , that we were in this humour, for the road we went over that day, was certainly enough to have shaken...the roof. Now, one side was down deep in the mire, and we were holding on to the other. Now, the coach was lying on the tails of the two wheelers; and... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1866 - 472 pages
...to enjoy even the roughest journey. It was well for us that we were in this humour, for the road we went over that day, was certainly enough to have shaken...the roof. Now, one side was down deep in the mire, and we were holding on to the other. Now, the coach was lying on the tails of lie two wheelers ; and... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1868 - 658 pages
...to enjoy even the roughest journey. It was well for us, that we were in this humour, for the road we went over that day, was certainly enough to have shaken...the roof. Now, one side was down deep in the mire, and we were holding on to the other. Now, the coach was lying on the tails of the two wheelers ; and... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1877 - 502 pages
...to enjoy even the roughest journey. It was well for us that we were in this humour, for the road we went over that day, was certainly enough to have shaken...the roof. Now, one side was down deep in the mire, and we were holding on to the other. Now, the coach was lying on the tails of the two wheelers ; and... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1884 - 872 pages
...to enjoy even the roughest journey. It was well for us, that we were in this humor, for the road we went over that day, was certainly enough to have shaken...the roof. Now, one side was down deep in the mire, and we were holding on to the other. Now, the coach was lying on the tails of the two wheelers ; and... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1885 - 860 pages
...to enjoy even the roughest journey. It was well for us that we were in this humour, for the road we went over that day, was certainly enough to have shaken...the roof. Now, one side was down deep in the mire, and we were holding on to the other. Now, the coach was lying on the tails of the two wheelers ; and... | |
 | Athol Maudslay - 1888 - 620 pages
...is over and we resume our journey. " It was well for us that we were in this humour; for the road we went over that day was certainly enough to have shaken...flung together in a heap at the bottom of the coach ; at another we were crushing our heads against the roof. Now one side was deep in the mire, and we... | |
 | 1900 - 1020 pages
...can be used here to good purpose in describing the condition of many of the public'roads of that day: At one time we were all flung together in a heap at...we were crushing our heads against the roof. Now, the coach was lyinu on the tails of the two wheelers: and now it was reaving up in the air in a frantic... | |
 | 1901 - 602 pages
...this journey can be used in describing the condition of many of the public roads of that day : — ' At one time we were all flung together in a heap at...we were crushing our heads against the roof. Now, the coach was lying on the coachman with the ends of a pair of reins in his hands, apparently driving... | |
 | Archer Butler Hulbert - 1904 - 216 pages
...enjoy even the roughest journey. " It was well for us, that we were in this humour, for the road we went over that day, was certainly enough to have shaken...the roof. Now, one side was down deep in the mire, and we were holding on to the other. Now, the coach was lying on the tails of the two wheelers ; and... | |
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