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...of the Bushveld is a true story by South African author Sir Percy Fitzpatrick when he worked as a storeman, prospector's assistant, journalist and ox-wagon transport-rider. The book tells of Fitzpatrick's travels with his dog, Jock, during the 1880s. Jock was saved by Fitzpatrick from being drowned in a bucket for being the runt of the litter. Jock was very loyal towards P...

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... at the ceiling as it bled in aqueous abstracts. My grandfather parked his rusting, faded, wagon and climbed home. His wife awoke with startled whim...

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...sgression.” Transgression is related to the male part, and is as heavy as wagon shafts. What is this transgression? It is the impure Nukva. With rei... ...he male impure force makes a Zivug with its impure Nukva, and, like heavy wagon shafts, they pull man into an abyss so great and dark that he doesn’...

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...ns. He saw city buses in the distance. The taxis were often crowded station wagons where people sat in what was the trunk. He saw men balancing suit... ...other foreigners, "Taxi cab! Border line, Mister!"; mariachi singers; zebra wagons for tourist photos; Burger King; stores with rectangular mirrors o...

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... abroad; The dust did scoop itself like hands And throw away the road. The wagons quickened on the streets, The thunder hurried slow; The lightning sh... ...arls are the Diver’s farthings Extorted from the Sea, Pinions the Seraph’s wagon, Pedestrians once, as we— Night is the morning’s canvas, Larceny, leg... ... our timid Mother wore At Home, in Paradise. 300 XCV ELIJAH’S wagon knew no thill, Was innocent of wheel, Elijah’s horses as unique As wa... ...lose takes part of us; 227 Eden is that old-fashioned House 306 Elijah’s wagon knew no thill, 300 Elysium is as far as to 146 Essential oils are w...

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...es of that day were, they could not be more so than artil- lery or baggage wagons: where these could go, coaches could go. So that, in the march of an... ...ponding knowledge, by legislating backwards and forwards on the breadth of wagon wheel tires, &c. But not until our cotton system began to put forth b... ...upon English high roads—return post chaises, stage coaches, led horses, or wagons)—footsore, and eager for sleep. Sleep, supper, breakfast in the morn...

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... her to suggest that she go down to the river the next morning, with her attendants. So the next morning Nausicaa persuades her parents to lend her a wagon to take clothes down to the river for washing. The party goes down to the washing pool. Nausicaa is about to fold and put away the clothing when the ship-wrecked Odysseus, who is asleep nearby, wakes up. He wonders wher...

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...es of frost. There was such a frozen surface on the snow that they drove the wagons anywhere off the roads. Easter came in the snow. Then all of a sud... ...him about the spring operations before them, and his plans for the farm. The wagons were to begin carting manure earlier, so as to get all done before... ... girls to have their blouses put on, and the boys their old jackets, and the wagonette to be harnessed; with Brownie, to the bailiff’s annoyance, agai... ...suddenly embarrassed, and, stopping abruptly, he walked on in silence by the wagonette, snapping off the buds of the lime trees and nibbling them. He ... ...lds and exam ined the stacks. The haystacks could not possibly contain fifty wagon loads each, and to convict the peasants Levin ordered the wagons th... ...d him and the haycock on which he was lying, and the other haycocks, and the wagon loads, and the whole meadow and distant fields all seemed to be shak... ...y, what do you want there?” said Kitty. “I must go to have a look at the new wagons, and to check the invoice,” said Levin; “and where will you be?” “... ..., very well,” said Kitty, smiling, “and how have things gone with you?” “The wagons held three times as much as the old carts did. Well, are we going ... ... I’ve ordered the horses to be put in.” “What! you want to take Kitty in the wagonette?” her mother said reproach fully. “Yes, at a walking pace, pri...

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... a word 25 Thomas Carlyle that even these will revolt. Sieur Jean Julien, wagoner of Vaugirard, (Moore, i. 178.) being set in the Pillory last Fri- d... ...ined by the unimprisoned, ride roughshod over us all. This the unfortunate wagoner of Vaugirard did bawl, at the top of his lungs: when snatched off t... ...ages and homesteads we know of old were stirred by the rumble of artillery-wagons, by the clatter of hoofs, and many footed tramp of men: all man- ner... ...re crushed up into a ridge on each side, an uninter- rupted column of sick-wagons through the Town, and all was trodden as into a morass. While we sto... ...le this occasion too, brought us on: for he struck into a small gap of the wagon-row; and held the advancing team back till we, with our six and our f... ...spect of aught. Not far before us there fell down a horse of an ammunition-wagon: they cut the traces, and let it lie. And now as the three others cou... ...en, crushed and jostled each other, amid vehicles of all forms: ammunition-wagons, baggage- wagons; carriages, single, double, and multiplex; such hun...

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... the walls of Blois.” “Probably; and those steeples, pointed and sculptured, that we catch a glimpse of yonder, are similar to those that I have heard... ...eived the strange change which had been made in the streets of Paris. The whole city seemed peopled with fantastic beings; silent shadows were seen un... ...o make a breach in the barricade, whilst he and others, remaining on their horses, were to protect the assailants. The twenty men marched straight tow... ...what is above them. And you, you, D’Artagnan, a man sprung from the ancient nobility of France, bearing an honorable name, carrying a good sword, have... ...than try and make the wheel pass over it. Now, of two hundred and fifty-one members who com- posed the parliament, there were one hundred and ninety- ...

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...st – unless they were horses or cattle, for which class of guests there was preparation enough in the way of water-trough and hay – were so unusual at... ...erval, sitting in a sanded parlour, wondering in how long a time after he had gone, the sneezy fire of damp fagots would begin to make somebody else w... ...f washed and half dried, led a public life of lying about; where everything to drink was drunk out of mugs, and everything else was suggestive of a rh...

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...Jones and I issued into West Street, sitting on some straw in the bottom of an open baggage-wagon. It rained miraculously; and from that moment till o... ...er, we go in force, we have set aside our usual vehicle, the pony-cart, and ordered a large wagonette from Lejosne’s. It has been waiting for near an ... ...now, a little past Franchard, we find a mounted trooper holding a led horse, who brings the wagonette to a stand. The artillery is practising in the Q... ... and fuse once more into a jolly fellowship. Half the party are to return to-night with the wagonette; and some of the others, loath to break up compa... ..., will go with them a bit of the way and drink a stirrup-cup at Marlotte. It is dark in the wagonette, and not so merry as it might have been. The coa... ...the billiard-room, for a match at corks and by one consent a messenger is sent over for the wagon- ette—Grez shall be left to-morrow. To-morrow dawns ...

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... down before it.” “Ah! that will be well,” cried Christina. “Then will our wagons be no longer set upon at the Debateable Ford by 13 Yo n g e Schlang...

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... ‘Sorry to interrupt,’ Rex broke in, ‘but it’s already dark and you don’t want to arrive home suspiciously late. Stick your bikes in the back of the wagon and I’ll drive you home. There’s no moon and you’ve no lights on your bikes.’ ‘When can we come back?’ ‘The welcome mat’s out twenty-four/seven. From today this house is yours. And the minute this is cleared up you’re...

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...ay, “See you later,” to my buddies and hop into my car. The silver station wagon is a beast of a machine, both in size and in sturdiness (it would sur... ... watch the pathetic world that lay just out- side the utopia of my station wagon, I jump, sur- prised by a loud thump coming from the back win- dow ac... ...ched arm. After my dad closes the back door and hops back into the station wagon, there is an awkward silence. I watch as the man slowly limps away wi...

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...A few years before the great Civil War, a young English woman and her father, having left the security of their wagon train, are lost in the unforgiving Californian desert, looking in vain for the landmark that marks the short-cut across those last western mountains which would lead them to the home of an old friend. George Castlewood ...

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... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 5. Chapter II. The Settlers. In 1772 at the area known as Alexander Waugh's Ford, wagons camped along the river carrying goods between the Shenandoah valley and Fredericksburg. A miller, and land grantee, "Gentleman Billy" Willis, petitioned the English King, George III, to grant a tract of land on which ...

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... the inhabitants of the city moving out in large numbers, and taking with them wagons and pack animals which no doubt bore away the property of the Sp...

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...nd the French too) had news that it was on its way. It was composed of 700 wagons, containing ammunition of all sorts, and was escorted out of Ostend ...

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..., portable larders (and chaffering and quarrelling enough); all mounted in wagons, tumbrils, second- hand chaises,—sufficient not to conquer Flanders,... ...hings is good;—though not good for ‘consolidat- ing Revolutions.’ Thousand wagon-loads of this Pamphleteer- ing and Newspaper matter, lie rotting slow... ... Such a host—marched not in silence! The bargeman pauses on the River; all wagoners 160 The French Revolution and coachdrivers fly; men peer from win... ...e Royal Carriage, which the illusions hit, and point- ing to the Provision-wagons, with the other hand, and these words: “Courage, Friends! We shall n... ...son! Nay there goes a word that even these will revolt. Sieur Jean Julien, wagoner of Vaugirard, (Moore, i. 178.) being set in the Pillory last Friday... ...ined by the unimprisoned, ride roughshod over us all. This the unfortunate wagoner of Vaugirard did bawl, at the top of his lungs: when snatched off t... ...ages and homesteads we know of old were stirred by the rumble of artillery-wagons, by the clatter of hoofs, and many footed tramp of men: all manner o... ...ere crushed up into a ridge on each side, an uninterrupted column of sick- wagons through the Town, and all was trodden as into a mo- rass. While we s... ...on this occasion too, brought us on: for he struck into a small gap of the wagon-row; and held the advancing team back till we, with our six and our f...

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..., portable larders (and chaffering and quarrelling enough); all mounted in wagons, tumbrils, second-hand chaises,—sufficient not to conquer Flanders, ... ...hings is good;—though not good for ‘consoli- dating Revolutions.’ Thousand wagon-loads of this Pam- phleteering and Newspaper matter, lie rotting slow... ...Such a host— marched not in silence! The bargeman pauses on the River; all wagoners and coachdrivers fly; men peer from windows,— not women, lest they... ...the Royal Carriage, which the illusions hit, and pointing to the Provision-wagons, with the other hand, and these words: “Courage, Friends! We shall n...

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...h as you want, for there are plenty of leaves.” Tarras, with his tarantas (wagon) filled with gold, rode away to the city to engage in trade and incre... ...’s daughter also,” replied Ivan, after which he harnessed his horse to his wagon and took his seat ready for his departure; whereupon his parents said... ...he Easter holidays. She made daily visits to the barn, where, under an old wagon, she was sure to find the precious egg. One day the children frighten... ...finished her task, she went to the barn, and as usual looked under the old wagon, expecting to find an egg. But, alas! no egg was visible in the accus... ... suing the other, it happened that a perch-bolt from Gavryl’s 128 Tolstoy wagon was lost; and the women of Gavryl’s household accused Ivan’s son of s... ... “We saw him in the night-time pass by our window, on his way to where the wagon was standing.” “And my kumushka [sponsor],” said one of them, “told m... ... themselves from view, there was seen standing before Polikey’s home a low wagon, the same in which the superintendent himself used to ride; and harne... ...e were many holes in it. Finally Polikey was all ready, and jumping on the wagon started on his journey, after first making the sign of the cross. At ... ... stopped the horse on hearing the children, and Akulina placed them in the wagon, together with two others belonging to a neighbor—all anxious to have...

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...ren, to the amount of two hun- dred thousand and upwards, were placed upon wagons, or upon camels, and drew off by masses of twenty thousand at once—p... ...the lading of the camels, or from the desperate sacrifice of their baggage-wagons, or (as occasionally happened) from the forests which skirted the ba...

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...n her.” Mickey nodded and stepped forward to see if the coast was clear. But he waved Mack back. Someone was coming. It was just a horse drawn wagon. Safe, they both huddled up under their long collars and watched as it clopped past. The barrels lined along the dray said ‘Fresh Milk’ but at this time of night it could only be an emergency gin run. Someone somewhere ...

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...hrough the canopy of leaves above the road on which the caravan was traveling. Then the shield of leaves dropped away briefly and Morris saw that the wagon was moving along on a road about 400 feet above a town with narrow streets and Chinese-style pagoda roofs. Some of the buildings were demolished and others were in flame. “That is Sam Neua, the actual town,” the third ...

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...o examine. I started on the return trip. It was now that I saw a farmer’ s wagon poking along down toward me, loaded with cab What Is Man and Other ... ...it was just that. The farmer was occupying the middle of the road with his wagon, leaving barely four teen or fifteen yards of space on either side. ... ...s Mark T wain 195 always so in my experience. Even when I could not hit a wagon I could hit a dog that came to see me practice. They all liked to see... ...s fondest of, the one which I prized far above all others in my ammunition wagon—to wit, that Shakespeare couldn’t have written Shakespeare’s words, f...

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..., if you will; but inexhaustible as the Hoard of King Nibelung, which twelve wagons in twelve days, at the rate of three jour neys a day, could not c... ...thing of the laws of unstable and stable equilibrium, with other branches of wagon science, and has actually put forth his hand and operated on Nature... ...ee broad Highways, meeting here from the ends of Europe, made for Ammunition wagons, then? Were thy Wagrams and Stillfrieds but so many ready built Ca... ...merable untal ented men, are the better or worse exegetic Commentaries, and wagon load of too stupid, heretical or orthodox, weekly Sermons. For my s...

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...te morning gown. The boys were dragging along the banquette a small “express wagon,” which they had filled with blocks and sticks. The quadroon was fo... ...g pecans with Lidie’s little black brood, and hauling chips in their express wagon. It was a thousand times more fun to haul real chips for old lame S... ... that she had been purposely left by a party of Texans, whose canvas covered wagon, late in the day, had crossed the ferry that Coton Mais kept, just ...

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...GS, BOGS, & CO. “City of —, June 21, 18—. “P .S.—The box will reach you by wagon, on the day af- ter your receipt of this letter. Our respects to Mr. ... ... ha! ha! ha! “Y et, let not Mr. W . despair; he has given immortality to a wagon, and the bee Sophocles has transmitted to eternity a sore toe, and di...

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...ed the baron’s instructions, and then went out; five minutes later a large wagon belonging to the military train, covered with a miller’s tilt, gallop... ...id he heard a rumbling in the distance. They all rushed down, and soon the wagon drove up at a gallop with its four horses, splashed up to their backs...

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...ion. When he travelled, his baggage and suite accompanied him in a hundred wagons, 153 Friedrich Schiller drawn by six or four horses; his court foll...

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...nd the French too) had news that it was on its way. It was composed of 700 wagons, containing ammunition of all sorts, and was escorted out of Ostend ...