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...ose silences, because I remem- bered a case which came under my observation once, and which—but I will tell the incident: One evening on board a Missi... ...a boy of ten years lay asleep in a berth—a long, slim-legged boy, he was, encased in quite a short shirt; it was the first time he had ever made a tri... ...ard the inspiring cry: “Sail ho!” “Where away?” shouted the captain. “Three points off the weather bow!” We ran forward to see the vessel. It proved t... ...ules against the stiff current. The Neckar has always been used as a canal, and thus has given employment to a great many men and animals; but now tha... ...he river in one hour than thirty men and thirty mules can do it in two, it is believed that the old- fashioned towing industry is on its death-bed. A ... ...ouble rank of low shade trees. The lake-front is walled with masonry like a pier, and has a railing, to keep people from walking overboard. All day lo... ...hing but a piece of rope the size of your little fin- ger—clothes-line is what it is. Cabs use it, private carriages, freight-carts and wagons, all so...

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... again in an earlier city was Hero of Alexandria, who knew of the power of steam nineteen hundred years before it was first brought into use. And earl... ...on 4 ection 4 ection 4 ection 4 THE LATENT ENERGY of coal and the power of steam waited long on the verge of discovery, before they began to influ- en... ...And it is to be remarked that the first recorded suggestion for the use of steam was in war; there is an Elizabethan pamphlet in which it is pro- pose... ...he smelting of iron upon a larger scale than men had ever done before, the steam pump- ing engine, the steam-engine and the steam-boat, followed one a... ...ructive chapter in the his- tory of the human intelligence, the history of steam from its beginning as a fact in human consciousness to the perfec- ti... ...alues. These glaring factories working night and day, these glittering new vehicles swinging noiselessly along the roads, these flights of dragon-flie...

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...y T elegraph: From London to Suez via Mont Cenis and Brindisi, by rail and steamboats ................. 7 days From Suez to Bombay, by steamer .......... ...utta, by rail ................... 3 “ From Calcutta to Hong Kong, by steamer ..........13 “ From Hong Kong to Yokohama (Japan), by steamer 6 “... ...ong to Yokohama (Japan), by steamer 6 “ From Yokohama to San Francisco, by steamer ..... 22 “ From San Francisco to New York, by rail ............... ... ...cisco to New York, by rail ............... 7 “ From New York to London, by steamer and rail .... 9 “ T otal ............................................ ... not to exceed it, you must jump mathemati- cally from the trains upon the steamers, and from the steam- ers upon the trains again.” “I will jump—math... ...re of this interruption, and, leaving the train, they began to engage such vehicles as the village could provide four-wheeled palkigharis, waggons dra...

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...rhood of Paris there sprang up schemes of beautiful, rapid, and commodious vehicles, departing and arriving in Paris at fixed hours, which produced, n... ...f the great lines of public conveyances. But the two con- ductors of these vehicles, which were half diligence, half coucou, were invariably defended ... ...g influx of travellers. Pierrotin’s present establishment consisted of two vehicles. One, which served in winter, and the only one he reported to the ... ... of the “hen-roost” (the name given by conductors to this section of their vehicles) were made to get down outside of every village or town where ther... ...ur-wheeler. This may seem extraordinary in these days, but when the tax on vehicles was first imposed, it was done very timidly, and such decep- tions... ...hree to eight o’clock; after eight he takes his remedies, —sulphur- baths, steam-baths, and such things. His valet bakes him in a sort of iron box—for...

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...rval between the first wooden Dibble fashioned by man, and those Liverpool Steam-carriages, or the British House of Com- mons, we shall note what prog... ... to be a Metaphysico-theological Disquisition, “De- tached Thoughts on the Steam-engine,” or, “The contin- ued Possibility of Prophecy,” we shall meet... ...unmakes whole worlds, I shall forbear mention: but cannot the dullest hear Steam- engines clanking around him? Has he not seen the Scot- tish Brass-sm... ...rpose, of Volition, even of Hostility: it was one huge, dead, immeasurable Steam-engine, rolling on, in its dead indifference, to grind me limb from l... ...way be fixed under lock and key, but must flit, spirit-like, on impalpable vehicles, from Father to Son; if you demand sight of them, they are nowhere... ...alor; equipped, not now with the battle-axe and war- chariot, but with the steam engine and ploughshare? Where are they?—Preserving their Game!” CHAPT...

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...-like baseless mountains hanging in the sky, and I think of lank and coaly steamships heaving on the grey rollers of the English Channel and darkling ... ...gs that would have amazed their ancestors. They began to construct wheeled vehicles much more easily and cheaply than they had ever done before, to ma... ... haze-veiled hillsides of houses, the glare of shops by night, the glowing steam and streaming sparks of railway trains and railway signals lit up in ... ...rhung, he chummed and made the moustache wave like reeds in the swell of a steamer. It gave him a conscientious look. After dinner he a little forced ... ...in Madagascar, and how the Mecca pilgrims came from the East Indies before steamships were available. Nei- ther of us had suspected that there was any... ...al Palace, ending with the fireworks at close quarters. We went in a river steamboat down to Greenwich, and fired by that made an excursion to Margate... ...sfaction in taking girls for drives in dog-carts and suchlike high-wheeled vehicles, a disposition that died in tangled tandems at the apparition of m... ...endid dreams? Were they really the obstacles, might they not be rather the vehicles of the pos- sible new braveries of life? 2 2 2 2 2 The faults of t...

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... gallop. Mind, I only fancy I could; but when you come to do with iron and steam, I feel like a baby. You can’t stop trains.” “Y ou can trip ‘em,” sai... ...Father in heaven! bless them all! bless Rhoda! forgive me! “I can hear the steam of the steamer at the pier. Here is Edward. He says I may send his lo... ...ny chap try to stop me! They may just as well try to stop a railway train. Steam’s up, and I’m off.” He laughed and wiped his forehead. Slightly vexed... ...arly; and the bread, the salt even, on the wings of her morbid fancy, came steaming about her, subtle, penetrating, thick, and hateful, like the press... ...ectacle. The potatoes looked as if they had committed suicide in their own steam. There were mashed turnips, with a glazed sur- face, like the bright ... ...5 George Meredith he tossed in contempt at some boys who were cheering the vehicles on their gallant career. There was something desperately amusing t... ...d was up. A crowd was not long in collecting, which caused a stop- page of vehicles of every description. A gentleman leaned from an open carriage to ...

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...r. Vholes, whose black dye was so deep from head to foot that it had quite steamed before the fire, diffusing a Bleak House – Volume Two 132 very un... ... stir and motion of the commoner streets; through the roar and jar of many vehicles, many feet, many voices; with the blazing shop lights lighting him... ... such a speed that when he stops the horse half smothers him in a cloud of steam. “Unbear him half a moment to freshen him up, and I’ll be back.” He r... ...ng at him open mouthed, and gallops away again, and gets out in a cloud of steam again. Mr. Jarndyce, the only person up in the house, is just going t... ...y stage. I overheard that he began to ask the drivers of coaches and other vehicles coming towards us what passengers they had seen in other coaches a... ...icles coming towards us what passengers they had seen in other coaches and vehicles that were in advance. Their replies did not encourage him. He alwa... ...n its youth; bright fireworks of it showering about under the blows of the steam hammer; red hot iron, white hot iron, cold black iron; an iron taste,...

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...ed by a deep toned ding dong dong, ding dong dong, for he was personating a steamboat. As he drew near, he slackened speed, took the middle of the st... ...trying the gauge cocks). Tom went on whitewashing — paid no attention to the steamboat. Ben stared a moment and then said: “Hi YI! You’re up a stump,... ...h with reluctance in his face, but alacrity in his heart. And while the late steamer Big Mis souri worked and sweated in the sun, the retired artist ... ...They parted the bushes on the bank and peered out over the water. The little steam ferryboat was about a mile below the village, drifting with the cur... ...f eighteen and a few young gentlemen of twenty three or thereabouts. The old steam ferry boat was chartered for the occasion; presently the gay throng... ...s. The night was growing cloudy and dark. Ten o’clock came, and the noise of vehicles ceased, scattered lights began to wink out, all straggling foot ...

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...h,” and at the same moment vari- ous travellers emerged from the different vehicles. 4 Henrietta’s Wish Her eye eagerly sought out one of these arriv... ...em as much as I do, don’t you now?” “She is afraid they will make honey by steam,” said grandpapa, “and render bees a work of supererogation.” “They a...

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...g. The ground was covered, nearly ankle deep, with filth and mire; a thick steam, perpetually rising from the reeking bodies of the cattle, and mingli... ...ly. The host smiled, disappeared, and shortly afterwards re turned with a steaming jorum: of which, the first gulp brought the water into Mr. Bumble’... ...sely judged, from the crowd of passengers and 312 OLIVER TWIST numbers of vehicles, that London began in earnest. Just paus ing to observe which app... ... as it can be made,’ said the fellow. ‘There are fourteen water mills, six steam engines, and a galvanic battery, always a working upon it, and they c...

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...e man. ‘ A choker!’ said Miss T ox, quite aghast. ‘Stoker,’ said the man. ‘Steam ingine.’ ‘Oh-h! Yes!’ returned Miss Tox, looking thoughtfully at him,... ...ation for his mistake. ‘I should hope not! No, Sir. Arter a Biler Sir. The Steamingine was a’most as good as a godfather to him, and so we called him ... ...he eldest (known in the family by the name of Biler, in remembrance of the steam engine) beat a demoniacal tattoo with his boots, expressive of grief;... ...and costly merchandise. The old by-streets now swarmed with passengers and vehicles of every kind: the new streets that had stopped disheartened in th... ...ses, and beginnings of new thoroughfares, had started off upon the line at steam’s own speed, and shot away into the country in a monster train.’ As t... ..., and the Captain, in a hackney- coach to a wharf, where they were to take steam-boat for some Reach down the river, the name of which, as the Cap- ta...

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...n intermi- nable note, that would have driven to madness quiescent cats by steaming kettles, and quick, like the springing pulse of battle, the drum t... ...es to our list), while he invited them to dine, and detained them till the steam- boat was starting; and Signor Marini came down by rail in a great hu... ... it fast.” “No, miss,” he replied, “I’m going to market. They can’t put on steam too stiff for me when I’m bound on business.” Emilia found it impossi... ...rth. It had never seemed so till now; and, entering the house, the roar of vehicles in a neighbouring road sounded like something implacable in the or...

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...d are joyless in colour as in shade. When the lower world is under pushing steam, they wear the look of the re- volted sons of Time, fast chained befo... ...tood freely out from a fine neck and throat. After a space an Austrian war-steamer was discerned puff- ing out of the harbour of Laveno. “That will do... ..., where it remained within hearing of a whistle. One of the Milanese hired vehicles drove up to the maestro’s door shortly after, and Luigi cursed it.... ... day. It was a day of intense heat coming after heavy rains. The arid soil steamed; the white powder-smoke curled in long hori- zontal columns across ...

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...es—has got a barrel o’ oysters atween his knees, which he’s a openin’ like steam, and as fast as he eats ‘em, he takes a aim vith the shells at young ... ...t ‘ere shop, sir, and the inwentor o’ the patent never leavin’ off sassage steam ingin, as ‘ud swaller up a pavin’ stone if you put it too near, and ... ...le of Eastern allegory on a subsequent occasion, that she was ‘getting the steam up.’ ‘I am very sorry, Mrs. Raddle,’ said Bob Sawyer, with all imagin... ... as their common resort, and place of daily refuge. It is always full. The steams of beer and spirits per petually ascend to the ceiling, and, being ... ...ody attired in the coat of a coachman. Such appearances are common to many vehicles belonging to, and maintained by, old ladies of economic habits; an... ...ssional dignity in his anxiety. ‘Get on a little faster; put a little more steam on, ma’am, pray.’ ‘This morning,’ said the old lady slowly—’this morn... ...he thought of the numbers of people to whom one of these crazy, mouldering vehicles had borne, night after night, for many years, and through all weat...

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...f such a charming daughter. And then, as they sat looking at the ships and steamboats making their way to the sea with the tide that was running down,... ...was so enormously rich that everything you saw upon the river sail- ing or steaming belonged to him, and he kept a perfect fleet of yachts for pleasur... ...ets alow and aloft. And then again: you saw that ship being towed out by a steam-tug? Well! where did you suppose she was going to? She was going amon... ...and educate and bring up. Well. This has set me thinking.’ (‘ And she is a steam-ingein at it,’ murmured Mr Boffin, in an admiring parenthesis, ‘when ... ...n more upright in figure and less in danger of being knocked down by swift vehicles. T o be sure that was in the days when he hoped for leave from the...

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...n expedition to Margate, but he has great doubts of those new gimcracks, the steamboats, and indeed thinks himself too advanced in life to undertake s... ...ght equal to that of gazing into a confectioner’s window, or snuffing up the steams of a cookshop. There are two annual events which produce great sti... ...ight be seen popping their nightcaps out at every window, watching the crazy vehicles rumble by; and there was a knot of virulent old cronies, that ke...

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...ght of the sun and under the transparent shadows of the clouds, that it was hard to imagine the bay otherwise, for years past or to come, than it was ... ... stood upon the beach and observed it dimpling the light swell that was coming in, I cast a stone over it. So orderly, so quiet, so regular—the rising... ...n with the sand, and been scattered far and wide over the beach, like sea-shells; but most other golden treasure would be found. As it was brought up,... ... hailstones to pelt him with. Mercantile Jack was hard at it, in the hard weather: as he mostly is in all weathers, poor Jack. He was girded to ships’... ...n to the blast, though it was sharper than the knife in his leathern girdle; he was looking over bul- warks, all eyes and hair; he was standing by at ... ...We lost a great deal of companionship when the late public-houses turned their lamps out, and when the potmen thrust the last brawl- ing drunkards int... ...s own affairs. Mr. Testator took his coal-scuttle in one hand, his candle and key in the other, and descended to the dismallest underground dens of Ly... ...h shows, are non- existent; if the cemetery be far out of the town, the coaches that are hired for other purposes of life are hired for this purpose; ... ...ich I will now explain. It in- volves the title of this paper, and a little fair trying of teeto- talism by its own tests. There were many people on f...

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...the dinner was served in two huge tin-plated vessels, whence rose a strong steam redolent of ran- cid fat. I found the mess to consist of indifferent ... ...look, placed on the little round table near the fire! How fragrant was the steam of the beverage, and the scent of the toast! of which, however, I, to... ...le there was gloom and fear within its walls; while its rooms and passages steamed with hospital smells, the drug and the pastille striving vainly to ... ...hem came two open carriages. Fluttering veils and waving plumes filled the vehicles; two of the cavaliers were young, dashing-looking gentlemen; the t... ... to sleep in bed, I got up and opened the window. The air was like sulphur-steams—I could find no refreshment anywhere. Mosquitoes came buzzing in and...

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...ny in general, ‘I shall ride down to Richmond to-day, and come back by the steamer. There are some splendid effects of light and shade on the Thames; ... .... Wisbottle hummed, ‘Flow on, thou shining river. ’ ‘We have some splendid steam-vessels in Ireland, ’ said O’Bleary. ‘Certainly, ’ said Mrs. Bloss, d... ... others. Two months after this conversation, the City of Lon- don Ramsgate steamer was running gaily down the river. Her flag was flying, her band was... ...out invalids; parties, waiting on the pier for parties who had come by the steam-boat; and nothing was to be heard but talking, laughing, 71 Charles ... ...iscences of a canter. ‘Look at him, sir!—temper of a lamb and haction of a steam-ingein!’ Resisting even the temptation of securing the ser- vices of ... ...when he got into Fleet-street, there was ‘a stoppage, ’ in which people in vehicles have the satisfac- tion of remaining stationary for half an hour, ...