"On the way" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... to take me out to the cart, and to say on the way that she hoped I would repent, before I came to a bad end; and then I got into the cart, and the lazy horse walked ...
— David Copperfield • Charles Dickens
... tug," observed Vane. "She seems to have a raft in tow, and it will probably be for Drayton's people. If you'll edge in toward her I'll send him word that we're on the way." ...
— Vane of the Timberlands • Harold Bindloss
... said the editor; 'I will see what can be got in that line. You can read it before you start, and on the way over.' ...
— A Woman Intervenes • Robert Barr
... we took off our dripping wraps, and supplied their places with brilliant plaid shawls lent us by the landlady, in which we drove back to Chappaqua—to the wonder, I doubt not, of all who recognized us on the way. The horses this time went more evenly, and the entire strain of propelling the carriage did not fall upon poor Lady Alice. But when we reached home, Mr. Reid's white suit, and our dresses, veils, and even faces, were a sight to behold ...
— The Story of a Summer - Or, Journal Leaves from Chappaqua • Cecilia Cleveland
... little known to the outside world, and a route which no European had followed for fourteen years, from Berber to Suakim. Moreover, there was a spice of adventure about it; there was an uncertainty regarding an altogether peaceful time on the way—a contingency which always appeals strongly to Englishmen of a roving and adventurous disposition. Only quite recently raids organized by the apparently irrepressible Osman Digna had been successfully carried out a few miles north and south of Berber. At the moment General ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 1157, March 5, 1898 • Various
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