| 1846 - Страниц: 706
...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 - Страниц: 488
...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... | |
| Sir Henry Parnell - 1838 - Страниц: 512
...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... | |
| 1838 - Страниц: 492
...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... | |
| George Richardson Porter - 1838 - Страниц: 396
...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 - 1840 - Страниц: 614
...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... | |
| 1858 - Страниц: 438
...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... | |
| 1850 - Страниц: 602
...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... | |
| 1845 - Страниц: 916
...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 - Страниц: 842
...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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