A Tour in a Phaeton Through the Eastern CountiesRichard Bentley & Son, 1889 - 403 psl. |
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3 psl.
... horses must keep them somewhere , and they do not cost so very much more on the road than eating their heads off ' doing nothing in their stables at home , whilst perchance their owners are absent at some fashionable watering - place ...
... horses must keep them somewhere , and they do not cost so very much more on the road than eating their heads off ' doing nothing in their stables at home , whilst perchance their owners are absent at some fashionable watering - place ...
4 psl.
... horse and con- veyance , it must be remembered that the cost of hiring would include all travelling expenses ; one gets , too , such a continuous enjoyment from an outing of this kind , such a constant change of scene is brought before ...
... horse and con- veyance , it must be remembered that the cost of hiring would include all travelling expenses ; one gets , too , such a continuous enjoyment from an outing of this kind , such a constant change of scene is brought before ...
12 psl.
... horse has annihilated distance for us , speed has in a measure overcome space ; nowadays we rush through the land snugly ensconced the while in a comfortably padded carriage , so that we simply arrive at our destination with little or ...
... horse has annihilated distance for us , speed has in a measure overcome space ; nowadays we rush through the land snugly ensconced the while in a comfortably padded carriage , so that we simply arrive at our destination with little or ...
26 psl.
... . Here we baited our horses at the White Hart , a very ancient inn , one of the oldest coaching hostel- ries now existing in England , one that before the CHAT WITH AN OSTLER . 27 railway age must have 26 A TOUR IN A PHAETON .
... . Here we baited our horses at the White Hart , a very ancient inn , one of the oldest coaching hostel- ries now existing in England , one that before the CHAT WITH AN OSTLER . 27 railway age must have 26 A TOUR IN A PHAETON .
27 psl.
... horses here . It were " four up " or " four down , " all day long , there weren't much quiet then ; plenty to do and plenty to get for that matter , for the tips came pretty often . Seventy - two coaches passed the old house in the ...
... horses here . It were " four up " or " four down , " all day long , there weren't much quiet then ; plenty to do and plenty to get for that matter , for the tips came pretty often . Seventy - two coaches passed the old house in the ...
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