My Diary in America in the Midst of War, Volumen 1Tinsley brothers, 1865 - 434 páginas |
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Página 66
... train from Boston to Stonington , where we left the cars to enter one of those floating palaces , the river steam - boats , and we did not arrive at Pier Some- thing - or - another , East River , New York , before seven o'clock in the ...
... train from Boston to Stonington , where we left the cars to enter one of those floating palaces , the river steam - boats , and we did not arrive at Pier Some- thing - or - another , East River , New York , before seven o'clock in the ...
Página 74
... train , with whom , of course , I shook hands . This functionary inducted us into his private van , found a seat for us on the mail bags , allowed us to smoke , accepted a nip from a private brandy - flask , entertained us with ...
... train , with whom , of course , I shook hands . This functionary inducted us into his private van , found a seat for us on the mail bags , allowed us to smoke , accepted a nip from a private brandy - flask , entertained us with ...
Página 102
... train was to start at 7.25 A.M. We purchased , at the rate of 11 dollars 75 cents apiece , two lengthy green tickets , divided by perforated lines into compartments , and with coupons attached . These tickets were to stand us in stead ...
... train was to start at 7.25 A.M. We purchased , at the rate of 11 dollars 75 cents apiece , two lengthy green tickets , divided by perforated lines into compartments , and with coupons attached . These tickets were to stand us in stead ...
Página 103
... train departing from a junction imme- diately subsequent to the time you arrive there by another train . It is the equivalent of the French " correspondance . " If , through your own dulness , or implicit belief in " Appleton , " or the ...
... train departing from a junction imme- diately subsequent to the time you arrive there by another train . It is the equivalent of the French " correspondance . " If , through your own dulness , or implicit belief in " Appleton , " or the ...
Página 107
... trains the worse the accommodation seemed to become . How the lamps smoked ! how the stove generated maleficent ... train . There was no refreshment - car attached , no smoking - car , and , though we crawled along at a snail - like ...
... trains the worse the accommodation seemed to become . How the lamps smoked ! how the stove generated maleficent ... train . There was no refreshment - car attached , no smoking - car , and , though we crawled along at a snail - like ...
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Página 33 - Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord; He is trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored; He hath loosed the fateful lightning of His terrible, swift sword. His truth is marching on.
Página 143 - The ice was here, the ice was there, The ice was all around: It cracked and growled, and roared and howled, Like noises in a swound...
Página 46 - ... fancy-dress ball as the devil had as tail an eel in an umbrella case. Uncle , reproved by some one for want of consideration for his mother : " How can you behave so to the mother that bore you ? " replied " The mother that bores me, you mean." Judge to convicted prisoner : " The Almighty has given you health and strength, instead of which you go about the country stealing hens.
Página 81 - ... to the dictates of humanity and religion. Our happiness and prosperity essentially depend upon peace within our borders— and peace depends upon the maintenance, in good faith, of those compromises of the constitution upon which the Union is founded.
Página 372 - ... alights on earth, he is given to staggering about in an imbecile and helpless manner, suggesting the idea of extreme intoxication. The sharp New England mind, ever on the look-out for similes, has long since indorsed the locution " as tight as a peep," to express an utter state of tipsification. One of the best Yankee stories I ever heard is told, " in this connection,
Página 91 - I knew an old lady in Liverpool once, who kept an alehouse, not for profit, for she had plenty of money, but in order to enjoy the conversation of a select few. For all bar there was her little front parlour, and, but for a beer-engine in one corner, and a row of bottles and glasses on a shelf, you might have imagine'd the room to be a boudoir. A stranger, say, would enter, and call for a " gill o' ale " in a tone which, somehow, displeased the old lady.
Página 183 - you would like to see the Indians'. And George Sala captured his first Indian in his travel diary in much the same way as he might have recorded sighting a bird: 'he was the first North American Indian, in his own land, I had seen' . 18 Like virtually all travellers, both Sala and Offenbach were disappointed with what they saw.
Página 240 - ... substratum of sad truth in it. The late illustrious Abernethy had a presentiment of the ravages which Pie was making in the American constitution, when he rebuked his dyspeptic patient from beyond the sea with the gorging propensities of his countrymen.
Página 91 - Muffins," who was incurably drunken and dissipated, but who was a famous Latin and Greek scholar, had been a fellow of a college at Oxford, and whose conversation was still charming. " Lily-white Muffins," the old lady would cry, "thee's gude for nowt; but thee's classical. Sally, gi' t auld wretch a gill o