| Charles Dickens - 1842 - 452 pages
...close to the very rails — there — on, on , on — tears the mad dragon of an engine with its train of cars; scattering in all directions a shower of...gentleman intimately connected with the management of Ihe factories there ; and gladly putting myself under his guidance, drove oil' at once to that quarter... | |
| 1842 - 590 pages
...close to the very rails— there— on, on, on— tears the mad dragon of an engine with its train of cars .; scattering in all directions a shower of...people cluster round, and you have time to breathe •eain •• '' • ' •'•••««'• •>:«'•/ • '•• • i.. i , •' l " ' .•... | |
| 1842 - 592 pages
...close to the very rails— there— on, on, on— tears the mad dragon of an engine with its train of cars ; scattering in all directions a shower of...covered way to drink, the people cluster round, and you Kdve time to breathe again.» » ' Most encouraging is our author's account of the Lowell factories... | |
| S. Warrand - 1842 - 590 pages
...close to the very rails — there — on, on, on — tears the mad dragon of an engine with its train of cars ; scattering in all directions a shower of...last the thirsty monster stops beneath a covered way lo drink, the 'people cluster round, and you have time to breathe again. » Most encouraging is our... | |
| 1843 - 450 pages
...rearing, close to the rails: there — on, on, on — tears the mad dragon of an engine, with its train of cars, scattering in all directions a shower of...people cluster round, and you have time to breathe." CHEWING TOBACCO — " In all the public places of America, the filthy custom of chewing and expectorating... | |
| Charles Dickens - 1868 - 130 pages
...the mad dragon of an engine with its train of cars ; scattering in all directions a shower of hurning sparks from its wood fire ; screeching, hissing, yelling,...panting ; until at last the thirsty monster stops heneath a covered way to drink, the people cluster round, and you have time to hreathe again. I was... | |
| Charles Dickens - 1877 - 398 pages
...directions a shower of burning sparks from its wood tire; screeching, hissing, yelling, panting; nntil at last the thirsty monster stops beneath a covered way to drink, the people cluster round, and yon have time to breathe again. I was met at the station at Lowell by a gentleman intimately connected... | |
| Charles Dickens - 1873 - 584 pages
...close to the very rails — there — on, on, on — tears the mad dragon of an engine, with its train :^8 ' 7 7 tire ; screeching, hissing, yelling, panting ; until at last the thirsty monster stops beneath a covered... | |
| Phebe Ann Hanaford - 1871 - 424 pages
...rearing, close to the very rails, — there, on, on, on, tears the mad dragon of an engine with its train of cars ; scattering in all directions a shower of burning sparks from its woodfire, screeching, hissing, yelling, panting, until at last the thirsty monster stops beneath a... | |
| Charles Dickens - 1883 - 666 pages
...rearing, close to the very rails—there—on, on, on—tears the mad dragon of an engine, with its train of cars; scattering in all directions a shower of...people cluster round, and you have time to breathe again.—American ffotes. Chap. 4. RAILROAD CARS-In America. The cars are like shabby omnibuses, but... | |
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