 | Griffith, Farran, Browne and co - 1883 - 328 pages
...half-a-dozen urchins are slipping along in tottering triumph. The road is gay now ; carts and post-chaises, and girls in red cloaks, and afar off, looking almost...How much happier the walkers look than the riders ! Now we have reached the trees — the beautiful trees ! never so beautiful as to-day. Imagine the... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - 1884 - 156 pages
...Come, May ! " and up she springs, as light as a bird. The road is gay now ; carts and post-chaises, and girls in red cloaks, and, afar off, looking almost...lady with the invisible face, sole passengers of that large and roomy machine ! Hooded, veiled, and bonneted as she is, one sees from her attitude how miserable... | |
 | Moffatt and Paige - 1885 - 256 pages
...Come, May ! " and up she springs, as light as a bird. The road is gay now ; carts and postchaises, and girls in red cloaks, and, afar off, looking almost...look than the riders — especially the frost-bitten gentlemen, and the shivering lady with the invisible face, sole passengers of that "commodious machine... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - Animals - 1893 - 324 pages
...Come, May ! ' and up she springs, as light as a bird. The road is gay now ; carts and post-chaises, and girls in red cloaks, and, afar off, looking almost...and the shivering lady with the invisible face, sole passen The frost-bitten gentleman.' gers of that commodious machine ! Hooded, veiled, and bonneted,... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - 1893 - 358 pages
...Come, May ! " and up she springs, as light as a bird. The road is gay now; carts and post-chaises, and girls in red cloaks, and, afar off, looking almost...— especially the frost-bitten gentleman, and the shiveriug lady with the invisible face, sole passengers of that commodious machine! Hooded, veiled,... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - 1893 - 490 pages
...the coach. It meets us fast and soon. How much happier the walkers look than the riders—especially the frost-bitten gentleman, and the shivering lady with the invisible face, sole passen' The frost-bitten gentleman.' gers of that commodious machine! Hooded, veiled, and bonneted,... | |
 | James Baldwin - Children's poetry - 1897 - 252 pages
...; carts and post chaises, and girls in red cloaks, and afar off, looking almost like a toy, the 10 coach. It meets us fast and soon. How much happier the walkers look than the riders ! Now we have reached the trees — the heautiful trees ! never so beautiful as to-day. Imagine the... | |
 | James Baldwin - Readers - 1897 - 252 pages
...dozen urchins are slipping along in tottering triumph. The road is gay now ; carts and post chaises, and girls in red cloaks, and afar off, looking almost like a toy, the 10 coach. It meets us fast and soon. How much happier the walkers look than the riders ! Now we have... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - Country life - 1906 - 420 pages
...does.. "Come, May!" and up she springs, as light as a bird. The road is gay now; carts and post-chaises, and girls in red cloaks, and, afar off, looking almost...gentleman, and the shivering lady with the invisible 13 face, sole passengers of that commodious machine ! Hooded, veiled, and bonneted, as she is, one... | |
 | John Henry Grafton Grattan - English language - 1925 - 354 pages
...do think him as concave as a covered goblet or a worm-eaten nut." SHAKESPEARE, As You Like It. 2. " Afar off , looking almost like a toy, the coach. It...How much happier the walkers look than the riders." MR MITFORD, Our Village. 3. " Mounsieur Cobweb, good mounsieur, get you your weapons in your hand,... | |
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Come, May !' and up she springs as light as a bird. The road is gay now; carts and postchaises, and girls in red cloaks, and, afar off, looking almost like a toy, the coach. It meets us fast and soon. How much happier the walkers look than the riders... 
