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... build it of heavy timbers, with massive wheels, thick spokes and ponderous hubs, and as no springs could survive the jolting of such a vehicle, the body of the cart is placed directly upon the huge axle. Then a couple of big mules are hitched up tandem and driven at breakneck speed. A runaway in an American farmer's wagon over a corduroy road but feebly suggests the miseries of travel in a Chinese cart. It may be good for a dyspeptic, but it is about the most uncomfortable conveyance that the ingenuity of man has ...

— An Inevitable Awakening • ARTHUR JUDSON BROWN

... beside himself with grief and fear on my account; and yet the sense of property remained supreme. His first concern was to retrieve the runaway. ...

— Oriental Encounters - Palestine and Syria, 1894-6 • Marmaduke Pickthall

... right hand side, just where the road to Winchester branches off from that to Gosport. It was so close to the road that the front door opened upon it; while a very narrow enclosure, paled in on each side, protected the building from danger of collision with any runaway vehicle. I believe it had been originally built for an inn, for which purpose it was certainly well situated. Afterwards it had been occupied by Mr. Knight's steward; but by some additions to the ...

— Memoir of Jane Austen • James Edward Austen-Leigh

... themselves at the farther end of the plateau, the Germans advanced very cautiously, constantly seeking cover behind the various hedges. General de Colomb, to whose command Paris's runaway division belonged, insisted, however, that the position must be retaken. Gougeard thereupon collected a very miscellaneous force, which included regular infantry, mobiles, mobilises, and some of Charette's Volontaires de l'Ouest—previously known in Borne as the Pontifical Zouaves. ...

— My Days of Adventure - The Fall of France, 1870-71 • Ernest Alfred Vizetelly

... on his search for a nephew and a runaway raft he did not anticipate any difficulty in finding them. The appearance of the raft had been minutely described to him, and, according to this description, it was too distinctive in its character to be mistaken for anything else. Three shanties, and they of unusual construction, on a ...

— Raftmates - A Story of the Great River • Kirk Munroe

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