 | 802 pages
...of the Lancashire aristocracy — he cautions all travellers to beware of this terrible country, and to avoid it as they would the devil, for a thousand to one but they dislocate their necks or fracture their limbs by overthrows or break ings-down." The locomotives... | |
 | Carl Theodor von Kleinschrod - Commercial law - 1836 - 514 pages
...sufficiently expressive, to describe this infernal road. Let me most seriously caution all travellers who may accidentally propose to travel this terrible country , to avoid it, as they would avoid the devil; for a thousand to one they break their necio or their limbs, by overthrow! or breakings... | |
 | George Richardson Porter - Great Britain - 1838 - 396 pages
...most seriously caution all travellers who may accidentally purpose to travel this 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 will here meet with... | |
 | 1838 - 492 pages
...language terms sufficiently expressive to describe this road. Let me most seriously caution all travellers who may 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... | |
 | John William Carleton - 1847 - 708 pages
...of the Lancashire aristocracy — he cautions all travellers to beware of this terrible country, and to avoid it as they would the devil, for a thousand to one but they dislocate their necks or fracture their limbs by overthrows or breakings-down." The locomotives... | |
 | India - 1858 - 438 pages
...road. Let me most seriously caution all travellers who may accidentally propose to travel this terribli country, to avoid it as they would the devil ; for...thousand to one they break their necks or their limbs by overthrowsV>r breakings- down. They -will here meet with ruts, which I \ctually measured, four feet... | |
 | James Christie Whyte - Dressage - 1840 - 614 pages
...most seriously caution all travellers who may accidentally purpose to travel this 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 will here meet with... | |
 | Anna Maria Hall - 842 pages
...which he " seriously cautions all travellers who may purpose to travel this terrible country to avoid as they would the devil ; for a thousand to one they break their necks or their limbs by overthrowing or breakings down;" warning them "they will meet with ruts four feet deep, and floating... | |
 | 1847 - 654 pages
...road. Let me most seriously caution all travellers, who may accidentally propose to travel this way, to avoid it as they would the devil. For a thousand...break their necks, or their limbs, by overthrows or breaking-down. They will here meet with ruts, which I actually could not fathom, floating with mud.... | |
 | James Dunwoody Brownson De Bow - Industries - 1847 - 640 pages
...sufficiently expressive to describe this infernal road. Let me most seriously cantion all travellers who may accidentally propose to travel this terrible country, to avoid it as they would the devil; lor a thousand to one they break their necks or their limbs by overthrows or breakings-down. They will... | |
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They will here meet with rutts which I actually measured four feet deep, and floating with mud only from a wet summer... 
