"Weekend" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... attention—engines, carriages and wagons and especially carriages. Of carriages there were not enough for the traffic of the line, and many were in a very sorry condition, particularly those which had been taken over with the Holywood and Bangor Railway, acquired by the company the previous year. One weekend, soon after I joined the service, I had all passenger carriages brought into Belfast, except those employed in running Sunday trains, and early on the Sunday morning (it was in the summer) with the company's locomotive ...
— Fifty Years of Railway Life in England, Scotland and Ireland • Joseph Tatlow
... long weekend—we were pressed to stay till the Wednesday morning—no one, so far as I know, suspected that Colonel Lackaday found himself in an ...
— The Mountebank • William J. Locke
... For their home was for both Gilbert and Frances the centre of a widening circle. Although I visited Overroads, it seems to me, looking back, I saw them just then much more frequently in London and elsewhere. Several times they stayed at Lotus, our Surrey home. The first time it was a weekend of blazing summer weather. Lady Blennerhassett was there—formerly Countess Leyden and a favourite disciple of Doellinger. I remember she delighted Gilbert by her comment on Modernism. "I must," she said, "have the same religion as my washerwoman, and Father ...
— Gilbert Keith Chesterton • Maisie Ward |
