 | Edmund Quincy - 1867 - 596 pages
...another glass of toddy. Thus we travelled, eighteen miles a stage, sometimes obliged to get out and help the coachman lift the coach out of a quagmire or rut, and arrived at New York after a week's bard travelling, wondering at the ease as well as expedition with which... | |
 | Edmund Quincy - 1868 - 652 pages
...another glass of toddy. Thus we travelled, eighteen miles a stage, sometimes obliged to get out and help the coachman lift the coach out of a quagmire or rut, and arrived at New York after a week's hard travelling, wondering at the ease as well as expedition with which... | |
 | Carl Webber, Winfield S. Nevins - 1877 - 354 pages
...another glass of toddy. Thus we travelled eighteen miles a stage, sometimes obliged to get out and help the coachman lift the coach out of a quagmire or rut, and arrived at New York after a week's hard travelling, wondering at the ease as well as the expedition with which... | |
 | Martha Joanna Lamb - 1896 - 628 pages
...and often obliged to get out and help him lift the coach out of a quagmire or rut — and arrived at New York after a week's hard traveling, wondering at the ease as well as expedition with which our journey was effected." With such experience fresh in his memory, it is by... | |
 | Martha Joanna Lamb - 1896 - 638 pages
...often obliged to get out and help him lift the coach out of a quagmire or rut — and arrived at Xew York after a week's hard traveling, wondering at the ease as well as expedition with which our journey was effected." With such experience fresh in his memory, it is by... | |
 | Alonzo Lewis, James Robinson Newhall - 1897 - 474 pages
...another glass of toddy. Thus we travelled eighteen miles a stage, sometimes obliged to get out and help the coachman lift the coach out of a quagmire or rut, and arriving in New York after a week's hard travelling, [from Boston] wondering at the ease as well as... | |
 | Alice Morse Earle - 1899 - 552 pages
...and make ready, by the help of a horn-lantern and a farthing candle, and proceed on his way over bad roads, sometimes getting out to help the coachman...or rut, and arrived in New York after a week's hard travelling, wondering at the ease as well as the expedition with which our journey was effected." The... | |
 | Alice Morse Earle - 1898 - 550 pages
...coachman lift the coach out of a quagmire or rut, and arrived in New York after a week's hard travelling, wondering at the ease as well as the expedition with which our journey was effected." The Columbia Centinel of April 24, 1793, advertised a new line of " small genteel and easy stageOld... | |
 | John Wesley Hanson - 1900 - 718 pages
...the help of a horn lantern and a farthing candle, and proceed on his way over bad roads, some times getting out to help the coachman lift the coach out...arrived in New York after a week's hard traveling. " In 1796 it took five days to go between Philadelphia and Baltimore. Early in the century, however,... | |
 | Worcester Historical Society, Worcester, Mass - 1900 - 774 pages
...sometimes obliged to get out and help the coachman lift the coach out of a quagmire or rut, and arrived at New York after a week's hard traveling, wondering...well as the expedition with which our journey was effected."2 "The first stage-coach," says McMaster, "was little better than a huge covered box mounted... | |
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... must rise and make ready, by the help of a horn lantern and a farthing candle, and proceed on his way over bad roads, sometimes... 
