"Mere cattle stop the trains, and go by in a procession, just as if they were not impeding travel!
"There never were trains so late as yours, Duchess," he said, "nor any part of the world in which hired horses travel so slowly.
The explosive materials are everywhere in parcels; but there neither are, nor can be supplied the indispensable connecting trains.
This enabled him to move with great rapidity, but deprived him of his wagon trains, and of all munitions of war except cartridges.
Curious times they were, with their smutty railways and puffing old iron trains, their rum little houses and their horse vehicles.
He played the deuce with us in Kentucky last winter: burned the railroad bridge over Bacon Creek, captured trains, tore up the railroad, and played smash generally.
"Nonsense," laughed Carol; "as I never have to get up to breakfast, nor go to bed, nor catch trains, I think my old clock will do very well! Now, Mama, what were you going to give me?"
These innumerable multitudes of ruminating beasts often form an insurmountable obstacle to the passage of the trains; thousands of them have been seen passing over the track for hours together, in compact ranks.
Therefore, if any woman dyes her face, so that it may become beautiful, or uses high-heeled boots so that she may appear tall, or garments with trains to cover her wooden shoes, she is condemned to capital punishment.