| 1846 - 706 pages
...terrible country, to avoid it as they would the devil; for a thousand to one they break their necks or their limbs by overthrows or breakings -down. They...it receives is tumbling in some loose stones, which serve no other purpose than jolting a carriage in the most intolerable manner. These are not merely... | |
| Henry Brooke Parnell (1st baron Congleton.) - 1833 - 488 pages
...Commerce, art. Roads. to avoid it as they would the devil, for a thousand to one they break their necks or their limbs, by overthrows or breakings down. They...it receives is tumbling in some loose stones, which serve no other purpose than jolting a carriage in the most intolerable manner. These are not merely... | |
| 1838 - 492 pages
...accidentally propose to travel this terrible country to avoid it, for a thousand to one they break their necks or their limbs, by overthrows or breakings down. They...it receives is tumbling in some loose stones, which serve no other purpose than jolting a carriage in the most intolerable manner. These are not merely... | |
| Sir Henry Parnell - 1838 - 512 pages
...terrible country to avoid it as they would the devil, for a thousand to one they break their necks or their limbs, by overthrows or breakings down. They...it receives is tumbling in some loose stones, which serve no other purpose than jolting a carriage in the most intolerable manner. These are not merely... | |
| George Richardson Porter - Great Britain - 1838 - 396 pages
...tcirible county, to avoid it as they would the devil, for a thousand to one but they break their necks or their limbs by overthrows or breakings down. They...it be after a winter ? The only mending it receives in places is the tumbling in some loose stones, which serve no other purpose but jolting a carriage... | |
| James Christie Whyte - Dressage - 1840 - 614 pages
...terrible county, to avoid it as they would the devil, for a thousand to one but they break their necks or their limbs by overthrows or breakings down. They...it be after a winter ? The only mending it receives in places, is the tumbling in loose stones, which serve no other purpose but jolting the carriage in... | |
| India - 1858 - 438 pages
...necks or their limbs by overthrowsV>r breakings- down. They -will here meet with ruts, which I \ctually measured, four feet deep, and floating with mud only...a wet summer. What, therefore, must it be after a winters The only mending it receives is tumbling in some loose stonVs, which serve no other purpose... | |
| American literature - 1850 - 602 pages
...terrible country to avoid it as they would the devil, for a thousand to one they break their necks or their limbs by overthrows or breakings down. They...it receives is tumbling in some loose stones, which serve no other purpose than jolting a carriage in the most intolerable manner. These are not merely... | |
| Great Britain - 1845 - 916 pages
...terrible county, to avoid it as they would the devil ; for a thousand to one they break their necks or their limbs by overthrows or breakings down. They will here meet with ruts which I actually measured/b?/r feet deep, and floating with mud, only from a wet summer ; what, therefore, must it be... | |
| Anna Maria Hall - 842 pages
...their necks or their limbs by overthrowing or breakings down;" warning them "they will meet with ruts four feet deep, and floating with mud only from a wet summer." Merchandise was transported at this time almost exclusively by wagons travelling at their top speed... | |
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