How To Use Waggon In A Sentence

  • Their dried dung is found everywhere, and is in many places the only fuel afforded by the plains; their skulls, which last longer than any other part of the animal, are among the most familiar of objects to the plainsman; their bones are in many districts so plentiful that it has become a regular industry, followed by hundreds of men (christened "bone hunters" by the frontiersmen), to go out with wagons and collect them in great numbers for the sake of the phosphates they yield; and Bad Lands, plateaus, and prairies alike, are cut up in all directions by the deep ruts which were formerly buffalo trails. VIII. The Lordly Buffalo
  • His wonder and admiration were again excited by the neatness and perfect order that prevailed throughout the encampment, the six guns of a battery aligned with mathematical precision and accompanied by their caissons, prolonges, forage-wagons, and forges. The Downfall
  • She rode in back of the station wagon, probably on a wheeled stretcher, with a battery-run respirator on her chest.
  • Why aren't more different types of cars - namely hatchbacks, wagons and microcars - more readily available in the U.S.?
  • Whilst not the first so to do but well before the bandwagon hove into view, I proposed that MPs expenses must be place in full, unexpurgated, unredacted beauty online as are those of MSPs by the Scottish Parliament. Where The Huntsman leads, the hounds follow
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  • The soft cushions were so much more comfortable than the hard bench of the wagon.
  • When Bobby brought the team to a stop outside the O'Brien's farmhouse, Melinda moved quickly to climb from the wagon.
  • And someone of considerable power and prestige like himtaking a career-ruiningride on the "anti-lobby" haywagon is the FIRST STEP in getting our government back .... Obama's First Big Mistake on the Job: Rescuing Sen. Joe Lieberman
  • Inside the ‘wagon’ it lay bare except for some crates of different things used for casting spells.
  • The use of the bucket and telpher also eliminated most of the objectionable noise incident to the transfer of spoil from tunnel cars to ordinary wagons at the shaft sites. Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers, Vol. LXVIII, Sept. 1910 The New York Tunnel Extension of the Pennsylvania Railroad. The Cross-Town Tunnels. Paper No. 1158
  • So a few weeks ago, way, way behind the bandwagon, I discovered the Norah Jones album.
  • A sport utility vehicle, or SUV is a passenger vehicle which combines the towing capacity of a pickup truck with the passenger-carrying space of a minivan or station wagon.
  • That he expressed the general feeling in our train was evidenced by the many women who leaned from the wagons, thrusting out gaunt forearms and shaking bony, labor-malformed fists at the last of Mormondom. Chapter 13
  • Dried manure ground into fine powder by hooves and wagon wheels puffed up into the air and its pungent smell filled the town and drifted far outside the town.
  • The wagons were all unpainted and plain, making them look dull compared to the bright colourful tents.
  • She had grown up both bilingual and bicultural, speaking Maidu with her mother and English with her father, a Dutch settler who had come Wisconsin by covered wagon as a child.
  • But just now, on the train from Fribourg back home, the productive and calm silence was interrupted by an announcement where to find the restaurant in four languages, and when the "minibar" passed the upper deck of our wagon, the voice again made sure we knew. Planet Debian
  • However, even the wisdom of a political boss is not infallible, and despite the succulent graces of the barbecue numbers of the ascetic and jeans-clad elder worthies, though fed to repletion, collogued unhappily together among the ox-teams and canvas-hooded wagons on the slope, commenting sourly on the frivolity of the dance. Una Of The Hill Country 1911
  • in periods of high merger activity there is a bandwagon effect with more and more firms seeking to engage in takeover activity
  • Calis had literally rebuilt the old battlewagon from the ground up, using what he had in the junkyard and blueprints that he had acquired some time ago.
  • Those opposed to the application will cry foul, and those who have an axe to grind will jump on the bandwagon, heedless of the merits and demerits of the scheme.
  • Aboard the covered harvest wagons, out of the misty air, we wind our way past fields of broccoli, kale and parsley, and stop in the tomato patch.
  • However, open and closed wagons are available for the carriage of bicycles and can be marshalled into a train as required.
  • The lions and tigers stayed in their wagons. Times, Sunday Times
  • A violent accession of noise proclaimed that the mob had broken through and was dragging a scab from a wagon. SOUTH OF THE SLOT
  • Yo momma's so ugly, she'd scare a buzzard off a gut wagon.
  • It follows their recent acquisition of Rail Project, a design-engineering firm which specialises in bogies and related freight-wagon components.
  • Competitors have jumped on the bandwagon and started building similar machines.
  • The driver of the skip wagon told police he had waited several minutes while another vehicle left the weighbridge.
  • Residents have complained about being awoken in the early hours by empty wagons rumbling through the town on their way to the quarries.
  • When two men pulled up in a station wagon, the girls rebuffed their sexual advances.
  • 'donga' or watercourse, and into this plunged a rabble of men, white and black, mules, horses, guns, and waggons. The True Story Book
  • Some time about the year 1827, two sturdy lads, tall and well proportioned but clad in homespun and barefooted, came to "Dryden Corners" from the South Hill neighborhood, driving an ox team and bringing to market a wagon load of pine shingles which they had shaved by hand. Living in Dryden: June 2004 Archives
  • The prisoners were filed off to the seaports and crowded into cattle-wagons, the awnings of which, hermetically closed, let in no breath of air.
  • Phoebus > (Who each day drives his chariot across the sky) 9 In western waves his weary wagon did recure. recure > restore, refresh The Faerie Queene — Volume 01
  • Today's modern carts come in different forms; barrow, hand truck, wagon, wheelbarrow, push cart, handbarrow, handcart or gurney.
  • They also took over similar services at all of the mountain hotels, the last, Glacier House in 1915 by which time they had 80 tally-hos, coaches, carriages and wagons and 146 head of driving horses.
  • Chinches bravas -- Surely you have heard of the Volkswagon chinche? Two Expressions
  • Even before the first wagon train set out he ventured as a mountain man among bacterial viruses.
  • They had a horse-drawn wagon full of clocks.
  • Big kits mean heavy wagons, and heavy wagons mean no kits at all. Times, Sunday Times
  • We have to fork the hay into the wagon.
  • She stayed nearly three weeks until, come a Saturday afternoon, Arie returned from taking a wagonload of the last of the season's apples to the market.
  • Even after the stagecoach era - until the 1920s - it was the starting point for horse-drawn wagonette outings.
  • Sometimes, though, I don't always get on the bandwagon before it rolls out of the gate.
  • They left Adelaide on 12 November 1879 with four wagons, four drays, two express wagons, 40 men with portable troughs and a year's supply of fodder.
  • City leaders have rolled out the welcome wagon for several new businesses.
  • Fourteen wagons of timber left the track at Quintinshill, near Gretna, at 9.07 am.
  • Wagons repeatedly broke down on the rutty roads, and men as well as horses were exhausted by the hardships of travel over the long distances.
  • Northern California golf clubs increasingly are joining the plastic-spikes-only bandwagon, but the legal implications are not lost on some.
  • You often see freight trains composed of 20 or 30 fully laden wagons. Times, Sunday Times
  • The men roughly pulled Prudence and the others from the wagon and put cast iron shackles around their wrists, attaching them to the cart so they wouldn't get away.
  • The first project is usually a mess, with anxious students offering a wagonload of excuses: ‘My hard disk crashed.’
  • On the opposite end of the scale, SUVs are large, heavy lumps that transport people and stuff looking marginally ‘cooler’ than wagons and vans.
  • Upstairs is the balcony and snack bar or ‘chuckwagon’ as it's known round these parts.
  • At every halt of the wagons a shoemaker would be seen searching for a lapstone; a gunsmith would be mending a rifle, and weavers would be at their wheels or looms. The Lions of the Lord A Tale of the Old West
  • A wagon trundled up the road.
  • If attacked, the herd could stampede, or ‘circle the wagons’ and fend off predators.
  • An abandoned circus wagon with peeling paint is in the background, in it a hopeless dark woman imprisoned behind bars.
  • In addition to all this, the company providing its carriages or waggons is entitled to "demurrage" for every day beyond a certain time that these are detained by the companies to which they do not belong. The Iron Horse
  • Led by Steven Harnden and Brent Beck, the troops learned something about a "battlewagon" in World War II. The Daily Sentinel: News
  • All right, so this is all old news for you power punk simps, but this is a bandwagon I'm ready to climb on.
  • Scary fell off the wagon last night and got seriously mullered before rolling home in the wee small hours singing.
  • He is also planning to run for governor and has raised wagonloads of private money already.
  • My fancy was in such good working trim that before I knew it I kicked the wagon wheel, and I certainly got as warm as the most "sot" Scientist that ever read Mrs. Eddy could possibly wish. Letters of a Woman Homesteader
  • A conveyor used for separating the draining cullet from water and transferring the cullet to hopper wagon has been described, which helps mechanize the cullet transfer.
  • Or I might be on the shady sidewalk with my contemporaries when an ice wagon clattered up.
  • The time came for the chariots to be used and the reinsmen lined their war wagons up, the chains connecting each to the other in pairs. The Eternal Mercenary
  • John Waggoner is a personal finance columnist for USA TODAY. Mutual fund fees add up, so don't pay more than you must
  • So you're the sheriff and the welcome wagon all rolled into one, huh?
  • Obviously the Mystery Plays were originally intended to be performed on waggons, and it is good to keep this tradition alive.
  • He worked on the railways as a guard, riding at the end of the train in a wooden wagon, the brake van. The Times Literary Supplement
  • A sport utility vehicle, or SUV is a passenger vehicle which combines the towing capacity of a pickup truck with the passenger-carrying space of a minivan or station wagon.
  • The driver was a young giant, and when he climbed on top his load and poised a lump of coal in both hands, a policeman, who was just scaling the wagon from the side, let go and dropped back to earth. SOUTH OF THE SLOT
  • There are tractors and wagons in the fields, fellows on them waiting to take the wheat from the combine and load it into storage bins on a farmstead hereabouts, or into a semi that will take the wheat to town.
  • All the crew may fight against any enemy in contact with the War Wagon, whether to its front, sides, or rear.
  • Unless they've some magical beastie to use for it, they've no choice but to move her by horse, wagon, or afoot.
  • He then went at once and borrowed a waggon and twelve oxen, and during the night we packed the waggon three times, and took three loads across the Buffalo River to Degaza's kraal, which is on Natal ground, forty sacks of grain, 200 pounds in a box, with clothes and other things, also mats and skins, and four head of cattle and a horse. Cetywayo and his White Neighbours Remarks on Recent Events in Zululand, Natal, and the Transvaal
  • Railways' have only a meagre capacity for manufacturing wagons in their workshops.
  • Jumping on the fuel-cell bandwagon with Honda, General Motors, and Toyota, Mercedes-Benz has announced it will begin leasing around 100 of its latest F-Cell fuel-cell vehicles in California starting this December. Mercedes-Benz to lease fuel-cell vehicles in California starting in December
  • Her father was supposed to do it, but he is too drunk, so Tess and Abraham load the wagon and begin the journey to market.
  • In 1861, horse-drawn wagons clip-clopped to the top of the newly completed carriage road in a plodding three hours.
  • He stopped speaking, and despite the sound of hooves and wagon wheels echoing in the tunnel, an odd sort of silence enveloped his listeners.
  • When I started to crawl along the packed gear with which the wagon was laden my mother said in a tired and querulous voice, "Can't you ever be still a minute, Jesse? Chapter 12
  • And, a base spokesman acknowledged the cooler ban did not prohibit knapsacks, soft-sided fabric coolers or wagons.
  • Most often the cowpuncher's rifles were carried in the chuck wagon.
  • Would you mount the dray for a ride in the country, or hitch a saddle horse to a heavy wagon?
  • Or if not physics, the Greek club, since like Antaeus the V-Wagon maintains an Olympian grip on the earth and draws strength from it. Cadillac's Insane, Unnecessary, Awesome Wagon
  • The train of merchant's wagons continued slowly into the gate, their wooden axles creaking loudly in the hot stagnant air.
  • The shifting from the wagon-lit has begun at the Italian frontier. Tender is the Night
  • I certainly see there is plenty of good automotive art in this mix of new models and concept wagons.
  • People used boom, skimmers, and even "honey wagons," vacuums designed to suck up liquid manure.
  • For some time I have wondered why it is only Hollywood, and not our own film industry, that is riding the Shakespeare bandwagon.
  • She felt the wagon being covered, then felt motion as the driver urged the horses on.
  • Also, the whole thing feels like a bunch of people jumping on a bandwagon for reasons of cash. Times, Sunday Times
  • Developed for carrying coal and agricultural produce a passenger service was rapidly initiated using wagons, open carriages and converted stage coaches.
  • And, a base spokesman acknowledged the cooler ban did not prohibit knapsacks, soft-sided fabric coolers or wagons.
  • Would the Paris police allow Gallimard and Song Liling alone together in a paddy wagon?
  • The accumulation time is an important component of car staying time in technical station. It has a great effect on determining the method of organizing wagon flow.
  • Small (four-seat) and expensive, they offered carriage at speed and cost two to three times that by stage wagon.
  • It took them three days to lay a bridge of corduroyed branches across the river and another two to get all the wagons and ivory to the far bank. When the Lion Feeds
  • But before it was yet day the waggon began to move again, and it was to the north-east that the waggon-pole pointed thenceforwards, and the letter Bough had given Smoots The Dop Doctor
  • Noon found Tom far out on the National Road, creaking along over the yellow dust in a light wagon, between bordering forests that smelt spicily of wet underbrush and May-apples; and, here and there, when they would emerge from the woods to cleared fields, liberally outlined by long snake-fences of black walnut, the steady, jog-trotting old horse lifted his head and looked interested in the world, but Tom never did either. The Two Vanrevels
  • On this street was a throng of trucks and wagons lading and unlading; bales and boxes rose and sank by pulleys overhead; the footway was a labyrinth of packages of every shape and size: there was no flagging of the pitiless energy that moved all forward, no sign of how heavy a weight lay on it, save in the reeking faces of its helpless instruments. Complete March Family Trilogy
  • This is not the time to circle the wagons and whimper and cry. Christianity Today
  • - Spotted in Engadget: Let it be known: we liked the Zune HD beforeit was popular, before all the poseurs jumped on the bandwagon with their tight-fitting jeans and their hairstyles. Megite Technology News: What's Happening Right Now
  • The meal was put in the wagon, the horse unhitched, the wagon mounted, the goad picked up and a thrust made, but dobbin was in no hurry. A Study Of Hawthorne
  • A spokesman for Railtrack's administrators said the train appeared to have been travelling at 75 mph - the maximum speed limit for freight wagons.
  • THE JORDAN TIMES editorial, entitled "A Thought for Humanity", in the 25th of December edition of the THE JORDAN TIMES indicates the degree of impatience Jordan and other neighbouring Holy Land states are having with both Israel's and Hamas 'belligerent (i.e. round-the-wagons) approach to governance and failed peacemaking in this new Millennium. William Walker Reports from Rachel's Tomb Checkpoint of the Massive Barrier Wall Near Bethlehem this Christmas
  • The one car that doesn't quite fit this mold is the Scion xB — a boxy urban mini-wagon with a 158 horsepower, four-cylinder engine. Is Your Car Getting You More Traffic Tickets?
  • They arrested the peaceful marchers, put them in paddy wagons, and charged them with disorderly conduct.
  • The company is bringing out the welcome wagon for the new sales recruits.
  • Often this meant travelling together the length and breadth of America in a station wagon.
  • The front wheels are connected to the handle, so if you pull the handle to the right, the front wheels turn the right as well, making the wagon easier to steer and reducing the amount of force required by the "puller". Epinions Recent Content for Home
  • Yes, in those days, riding in the "Black Maria," as they used to call the paddy wagon, meant more than it does today. Rachel Shteir: June in Paris
  • Ferner's boat, for instance, uses the shell of a Volkswagen station wagon for a cabin.
  • About half an hour from the city there was a hill where the wagons and horses again were halted. Sources of the West: Readings in Western Civilization, Volume 1: From the Beginning to 1715
  • We did try to float the idea that they should be allowed a wagonette pulled by shire horses and have them inside, but it's a marching parade.
  • But it has added a twist to the offshore bandwagon - by insourcing, rather than outsourcing, the work.
  • It was the longest passenger train in Australia's history with two NR Class Locomotives hauling 43 carriages and two Motorail wagons.
  • A tall, lithe, rather rakishly clad coatimundi stood nearest the wagon, gesturing animatedly in the merchant's direction with a thin rapier. The Lives of Felix Gunderson
  • Also hopping on the clear spirits bandwagon is Remy Martin, with this new clear, unaged Cognac. Tony Sachs: The Latest In Liquor For Autumn: New Rums, Tequilas, Liqueurs & More
  • Because they could pull two wagons and a water tender if needed with a two-man crew, they cut desert freighting labor costs by half.
  • Mrs. Plummet shed real tears when I told her my good news at six o'clock that night; and more tears a fortnight later when I moved out of my little hall bedroom, and my feather-weight trunk, lightsomely balanced on the shoulders of one man, was conveyed to the express-wagon and thence to new lodgings in Irving Place. The Fifth Wheel A Novel
  • The knife in my hands slipped when the wagon hit a rut, nicking a rogue gouge from the piece of wood I was absently whittling down to a toothpick.
  • The wagoner's job was to load the wagon with feed for the regiment's horses and mules and to drive it.
  • This little incident put me into rather a better temper, especially as the buck had rolled right against the after part of the waggon, so I had only to gut him, fix a riem round his legs, and haul him up. Stories by English Authors: Africa (Selected by Scribners)
  • Before the cloth is run into the steamer keir on the wire wagons, it is saturated with about twice its weight of a dilute solution of caustic soda (2° to 4° Twaddell = 0.5 to 1\% Na_ {2} O) at a boiling-temperature, when in the steamer keir it is exposed to an atmosphere of steam at four pounds pressure for five hours. Scientific American Supplement, No. 530, February 27, 1886
  • At the Pendleton rally, the stage was decorated with pioneer wagons stuffed with hay.…
  • The railway company's refusal to furnish cars for loading direct from the farmer's wagon compelled the shipper to sell to the elevator operator for whatever price he could get, accepting whatever weights the operator allowed and whatever "dockage" he chose to decree. Deep Furrows
  • The knife in my hands slipped when the wagon hit a rut, nicking a rogue gouge from the piece of wood I was absently whittling down to a toothpick.
  • Olbinett prepared the evening meal with his accustomed punctuality, and after this was dispatched, the travelers disposed themselves for the night in the wagon and in the tent, and were soon sleeping soundly, notwithstanding the melancholy howling of the "dingoes," the jackals of Australia. In Search of the Castaways
  • The roads were built so that two of these wagons could pass on both sides of the roads.
  • They traveled by rail, further by horse-drawn wagons over a steep, rugged mill road that ended at Sempervirens Creek.
  • In 1576 actor James Burbage built London's first public theater, known simply as The Theatre, which was an open-air structure that combined features of pageant wagons, fixed stages, and banquet halls.
  • Also there is no legal obstruction to you taking the coffin to the crematorium in a station wagon.
  • The first white settlers journeyed across America in covered wagons.
  • Well, if I'm trying to climb back on the blogging wagon, so to speak, I suppose I could do a lot worse than talk about a meeting - maybe it would be more accurate to say 'altercation' - that I had on the job with an angry, unhappy woman. This Side of Glory
  • The bureau was now responsible for the inspection of motorized vehicles, as well as horse-drawn wagons.
  • Then Bruce wheeled her out the way Grandpere Jack would wheel a wagonful of cow manure, his head back and his arms extended so the stench would be as far away from him as possible. Pearl in The Mist
  • Two stories and a side shed provide space for calving heifers, storing wagons, and fixing equipment.
  • Our conversation was hampered by the presence of the driver of the hired wagonette, so that we were forced to talk of trivial matters when our nerves were tense with emotion and anticipation. The Seriously Deranged Writer and the Model Cars
  • Today, 4Matic is available on all Mercedes sedans and wagons.
  • The wagon was parked directly in front of another car with a towing hitch and a speedboat directly behind it.
  • Keeping the most economically muscular hitched to our financial wagon is especially important now, when Americans see themselves competing for prosperity, not with Wall Street, but with China. Alex Castellanos: A Long Fall From an Ivory Tower
  • Even the lord Gialaurys needs a permit before he can drive a wagonload of things like this inside! LORD PRESTIMION
  • “Something that will convince me not to vanquish your butts or call the paddy wagon,” Paige said. The Queen’s Curse
  • His overwrought extemporizing on Monday night proved that his ego's still in it; maybe his political imagination will rejoin the wagon train at some future stop.
  • Even as the bandwagon rolled over their son's grave, they honoured his memory by voicing nothing but calm compassion for his killer.
  • By clever design, the same basic Sheppee body could be used as a charabanc to transport passengers or converted into a goods wagon.
  • Health fundis will be pleased to know that South Africa is finally joining the western world in climbing on to the organic bandwagon.
  • Only a few men were hired, waggoners ranging from £18 to £22.
  • I travelled by foot, by hitch-hiking and by clambering onto the wagons of freight trains.
  • It should also be noted that the base price of each Farm Wagon included whiffletrees, stay chains, wrench, neck yoke or tongue chains, but did not include a seat or a brake.
  • The first exemption act allowed paper mill workers, shoemakers, textile workers, tanners, wagon makers, and others to remain at their work, provided the profits of factories that used exempted workers not exceed 75 percent.
  • Body style/layout: The 2011 Acura TSX Sport Wagon is a compact/midsize wagon with a front-mounted engine, front-wheel drive, four side doors and a rear liftgate. 2011 Acura TSX Sport Wagon
  • I'm on the wagon for a while. Cleaning out my system.
  • Having been born since the country's rail network closed in 1975, the three had never seen or ridden on a moving train, other than a self-propelled wagon.
  • My brother - in - law goes on the wagon for a month after Christmas every year.
  • We had the wagons circled for long periods. Times, Sunday Times
  • Years ago the refuse wagon had a trailer on the back for waste paper and cardboard.
  • He said: ‘We are not trying to jump on the pay bandwagon, but if somebody is to go to meetings, there should be recompense for loss of earnings.’
  • There is the natural tendency, too, for players to circle the wagons in the locker room.
  • The hooter buys snacks at ordinary times, buy pollen, or money paying a car, can plant with this " cost certificate " , can hold after collection of butcher, wagoner convert ready money to bagnio .
  • Still, there needs to be some stress put on the idea. al-Qaeda has always had a limiting pseudo-theological underpinning its agenda that precludes large-scale Muslim bandwagoning. Is al-Qaeda Already Contained? Or Is It Terrorism’s Mark Halperin? | ATTACKERMAN
  • We must not reward them by jumping on any of their various bandwagons.
  • Looks like the more senior and experienced lot want to join this bandwagon.
  • Both the Signum and Vectra station wagon, which is due to market late next year, share the same wheelbase.
  • Hundreds of cities around the nation have climbed onto the sustainability bandwagon.
  • There was no time to talk to Katrina in the bustle of inspanning and working the wagons across the corduroy bridge. When the Lion Feeds
  • The saddle horses in charge of the horse "wrangler" accompany the wagon. Ranching, Sport and Travel
  • Steve was unloading the last wagonload of the day into the truck.
  • Two long wagons appeared in the square, ridden by the priests in their flowing carmine robes.
  • The brute landed with the force and grace of an enormous gunstone, square on the roof of the small wagon. The Black Wing
  • One of the reasons being put forward is that they are jumping on a bandwagon which unfortunately is worldwide.
  • Elephants and horses have been replaced now by tractors and wagons decked with flowers and a throne for each acharya and a few of his followers.
  • Each siding will accommodate a locomotive and wagons capable of transporting 210 vehicles.
  • If I felt like jumping on the bandwagon, I could discuss how both of these films are abominations to the Christmas holiday and just plain sacrilegious.
  • In between these waggons the women are placed for safety, for it is a noticeable fact that very large numbers of women have followed their husbands and fathers to the war, not to act as viragoes, not to play the wanton, not to unsex themselves, not to handle the rifle, but to nurse the wounded, to comfort the dying, and to lay out the dead. Campaign Pictures of the War in South Africa (1899-1900) Letters from the Front
  • The front and rear bumper beams are aluminum, as are the hood and the wagon's tailgate.
  • The revenge plot is intertwined with a romance between wagon train cutie Emily Hudson (a struggling Tamara Hope) and Jonathan (Trent Ford, not much better), the son of Samuelson who, in what may be the film’s only honest scene, tames an unmanageable horse. Current Movie Reviews, Independent Movies - Film Threat
  • If they can't find it, and we can't find it, then the Incas must have sold us a wagon load of hocus pocus. INCA GOLD
  • A teamster cursed as the Poor Fellows ordered his wagon out of the way.
  • The princess and the fairy mage were bound by ropes as prisoners on a covered wagon drawn by two horses that didn't seem quite normal.
  • After the first night, spent close by the Aes Sedai wagon, with the foxhead cool for half the night, he had the tent set up facing Tuon's wagon by dint of making sure that the Redarms started raising it before anyone else could claim the space. Knife of Dreams
  • The lions and tigers stayed in their wagons. Times, Sunday Times
  • This will allow refitted wagons to be marshalled in mixed train configurations pending the completion of installation work.
  • The 2006 Ford Taurus has been made available as a sedan or a wagon.
  • The black man, Levi Chew, rode in back on the oilcloth that covered the wagon's load.
  • In 1872, a pressman for The Providence Journal turned an old express wagon into an eatery, thus creating the first diner.
  • He ordered the wagons to be inspanned, but left where they were, and refused requests to allow them to be laagered.
  • Rim soldiery was everywhere: troopers and cavalry, wagon trains carrying troops and supplies.
  • Then, as the rev counter swings past 2000 rpm, the wagon surges ahead and acceleration is more like a sporty petrol engine's.
  • That said, it is a decidedly artful conversion of the Japanese automaker's M35 series Stagea wagon, a JDM load-lugger it produced from 2001 to 2007. Autoblog
  • Nearly three years ago, they had hopped on the Whites Stripes wagon of American garage rock under a band name of Pavor.
  • So off the wagon he goes - just in time for a lower-rung record-label lackey named Riverfront Times | Complete Issue
  • The children played musical chairs in the living room, miniature golf in the back yard, and rode wagons made with skates, two-by-fours, and apple boxes.
  • I'm starting to feel that Earth Day is just a shallow marketing opportunity for companies to jump on the green bandwagon and try to make some extra green using eco-caché. Earth Day 2010: Greenwashed 'Earth Day' Gimmicks
  • The town is all one set, and at the end of the film, when he dollies in on Doc Halliday's tombstone, he takes care to put a tiny wagon train heading west in the background of the shot.
  • You can shoot a rope that springs trappers' mantraps back onto them, drop a boulder onto a thug's head, or push wagons full of powder kegs toward a cabin full of enemies and take out a whole crowd with a single, well placed shot.
  • What had seemed to be isolated incidents of brigandage began to look like more than that Lone wagons, no matter the number of Knights, were raided with increasing frequence and efficiency, and survivors reported that they were struck by growing bands of elves who fought by no rules any Knight or soldier knew, who seemed to reinvent their tactics daily. The Lioness
  • Mr Hill said the Class 66 diesel locomotive was pulling 16 hopper wagons loaded with coal for Eggborough power station in North Yorkshire.
  • Once or twice a day Patches and I passed a lone cowboy on a gaunt horse, or a wagonful of Mexicans. Half Broke Horses
  • Had he not halted the horses, turned the reins over to Saxon, and shot an eight-pronged buck from the wagon-seat? CHAPTER XVI
  • Our regular bale mover would not lift high enough to load wagons.
  • Joe screwed the top back on the canteen, and squeezed, on his back, under the wagon bed.
  • As I walked away from the Audi wagon, I noticed a couple of SUVs parked nearby.
  • Cascades are especially common in medicine as doctors take their cues from others, leading them to overdiagnose some faddish ailments (called bandwagon diseases) and overprescribe certain treatments (like the tonsillectomies once popular for children). The low-fat diet cascade | The Blog of Michael R. Eades, M.D.
  • With the hayfork carefully lowered down onto the wagon, the fork would be closed to grasp a load of hay.
  • He rode alone before two large waggons, covered over with tarpaulins stretched on tall arches, pulled by double yokes of oxen.
  • The waggons, of which, including my two, there were ten, were drawn into the form of a square, and the disselboom of each securely lashed with reims to the underworks of that in front of it. Allan's Wife
  • Oromocto, in shay and waggon, steam-boat and catamaran, on horseback or on foot, as best they can. Sketches and Tales Illustrative of Life in the Backwoods of New Brunswick, North America
  • His father, Robert, was a waggoner with Bowman's Removals, in York.
  • It was the day of the horse-drawn waggonettes, cabs, hansoms etc, filled with race-goers and which passed in rapid succession.
  • The references to passing waggons, etc., are so numerous that it is possible to draw curves, in the same way as isacoustic lines, which represent equal percentages of comparison to this type out of the total number of comparisons. A Study of Recent Earthquakes
  • It was sent to the owner and/or occupier of the bus shelter fronting the Waggon and Horses in York's Lawrence Street.
  • But he was well requited by Faustus, even with the like payment: for he said to him, "Thou dotish clown, void of all humanity, seeing thou art of so churlish a disposition, I will pay thee as thou hast deserved, for the four wheels of thy waggon thou shalt have taken from thee; let me see then how thou canst shift. Mediaeval Tales
  • The waggon had just arrived at the gates, which were opened for the boat to enter, when the Athenians, with whom the whole affair had been preconcerted, seeing this movement, rushed out of the ambuscade, wanting to get in before the gates were shut again and while the waggon was still in them, and prevented them from being closed. The History of the Peloponnesian War
  • Troopers of the Light Horse were riding with gunners from the artillery; cacolet camels, whose native drivers had their heads shrouded in blankets, trudged beside ambulance carts; here and there a man who had lost his horse stumbled wearily along, first in one column then in another; guns and ammunition-limbers were mingled with cable-waggons; and all followed blindly man or waggon in front of them. With Our Army in Palestine
  • Only the great thoroughbred horse winded them and snorted, pulling at the riem with which he was tied to the hind wheel of the waggon. Swallow: a tale of the great trek
  • And thus I (aloft and at mine ease) and the fat fellow trotting breathless at the wheel we went awhile (and never another word) until, what with fear of losing his goods, what with the mud and heat and sweat, the poor gross fool looked wellnigh spent and all foredone (as I had seen many a better man than he), whereupon I brought the waggon to Black Bartlemy's Treasure
  • But 'a waggon came in atween ten and eleven, and he must be stepping west. ' Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle
  • Oh, I suppose the old gentleman, who has been run over by the Coal-waggon and is lying bleeding on the asphalte, is remonstrating with the driver? Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, March 14, 1891
  • The waggon stood ready, and Osred scratched the ears of one of the yoked oxen as he waited.
  • The difficult spot, which the Dutch settlers called a squint path, was passed, and the waggon gained the top of the height, when at some distance a broad river was seen flowing to the southward. Hendricks the Hunter The Border Farm, a Tale of Zululand
  • On top of them descended from the waggon on high a flame-coloured shock of hair surmounting a freckled face, a covert coat, a kummerbund, and cloth gaiters. From Capetown to Ladysmith An Unfinished Record of the South African War
  • The H.Q. waggon line was duly settled for the night when I arrived -- horses "hayed-up" and most of the men asleep on the ground. Pushed and the Return Push
  • After going some miles, I was pleased to see the waggons turning off the slippery track on to the veldt and outspanning. A Yeoman's Letters Third Edition
  • Presently he emerged from under the side flap of the waggon where he slept, and remarking that it was really too cold to think of washing, climbed to her side by help of the disselboom, and kissed her. Benita, an African romance
  • But several times that night, when a waggon or other vehicle came through, and the driver asked the tollkeeper ‘What news?’ he looked at the man by the light of his lantern, to assure himself that he had an interest in the subject, and then said, wrapping his watch – coat round his legs: The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit
  • Back they came, a ghastly procession, in heavy, lumbersome ox-waggons, with no cover from the sun or rain. From Aldershot to Pretoria A Story of Christian Work among Our Troops in South Africa
  • But several times that night, when a waggon or other vehicle came through, and the driver asked the tollkeeper 'What news?' he looked at the man by the light of his lantern, to assure himself that he had an interest in the subject, and then said, wrapping his watch-coat round his legs: Martin Chuzzlewit
  • Bertie's Nellie and Biddie had been obliged to resign and go with the waggons, under protest, of course, leaving Rosy and Jimmy's Nellie augmented by one of the most persistent of all the shadows -- a tiny child lubra, Bett-Bett. We of the Never-Never
  • Burginde came around the end of the waggon, and with a look of mingled pity and rue, helped me guide her charge back to our waggon.
  • In the late afternoon Angel Clare offered to drive the waggon with its buckets of milk to the station.
  • Army Sgt. Dustin Waggoner, left, and Sgt. 1st Class Gregory Frikken work on the rifle range in Forward Operating Base Airborne in Afghanistan. Combat's positive effects examined
  • Mistress Margaret might be eighty, so sad and sober is she; and as for my Lady and Mistress Perrote, they are just a pair of old jog-trots fit to run together in a quirle [the open car then used by ladies, something like a waggonette]. The White Lady of Hazelwood A Tale of the Fourteenth Century
  • And Tim Waggoner is a great guy -- it's been nice to see him start to have some success with his novels. Ccfinlay: Best. Con. Evar.
  • He got to work, and some other men came forward and unyoked those of the second waggon, so it was clear that the wagons were to be left as they stood.
  • On his head was a hat with a low crown and broad brim, very much resembling that of an English waggoner; about his body was a long loose tunic or slop, seemingly of coarse ticken, open in front, so as to allow the interior garments to be occasionally seen; these appeared to consist of a jerkin and short velveteen pantaloons. The Bible in Spain; or, the journeys, adventures, and imprisonments of an Englishman, in an attempt to circulate the Scriptures in the Peninsula
  • The waggoner threw down his whip. He knelt down and prayed to Hercules.
  • He sent waggon-loads of treasure and a great entourage of knights to Saragossa with requests for a formal reconciliation.
  • At last old Dos, dragging at the leading oxen with a riem, the whole span "trekked" at the same moment, and in a few moments the waggon was again moving forward at a slow pace. Hendricks the Hunter The Border Farm, a Tale of Zululand
  • They are such as engineers called flanged wheels, the flange being an extension of the rim all round it on the inside next to the waggon, so that the wheels resting upon the rail, these flanges reach The Numbers of Carlton, Addressed to the People of North Carolina, on a Central Rail-Road Through the State. The Rights of Freemen is an Open Trade 232 p.
  • Some men, horribly wounded, were being sent away by rail in a covered waggon ( "fourgon"). My War Experiences in Two Continents
  • Mr Thornber said in its early days teams would travel to away matches in waggonettes, with the driver under instructions to make a speedy getaway if the team won.
  • We shoot with bows and hurl javelins and ride horses, but the works of women we never learnt; whereas your women do none of these things which we said, but stay in the waggons and work at the works of women, neither going out to the chase nor anywhither else. The History of Herodotus
  • Bobsledding philb @andypowe11 "jumping on bandwaggons w/o wheels" sounds like bobsledding to me. prad "The name bobsledding came from early racers bobbing their heads backwards and forwards to gain momentum. Gaea Times (by Simple Thoughts) Breaking News and incisive views 24/7
  • Of the coarse snuff, called Vigo snuff, the sailors, among whom it was shared, sold waggon-loads at Portsmouth, Plymouth, and Chatham, for not more than three-pence or four-pence a pound. The Spectator, Volume 2.
  • While we were busy inspanning we heard the enemy's bomb-Maxim, and before the waggons had forded the dangerous drift of the donga near On Commando
  • We pitchforked the hay into the waggon.
  • I heard by a waggoner that there was a person who he saw follow the chaise, he described him, and by that means I found him out
  • A waggon locked wheels for a moment and ripped a long splinter from the chaise. The War of The Worlds by H. G. Wells: Part 4 | Solar Flare: Science Fiction News
  • He was many years horse feeder and waggoner for the late William Jackson, stage wagon proprietor of Fairburn.
  • A week later, a train of seven waggons stood with the oxen "inspanned," or yoked, ready to leave the camp, from which many similar trains had previously set out. The Settler and the Savage
  • A park full of merry hay-makers; gay red and blue waggons; stalwart horses switching off the flies; dark avenues of tall elms; groups of abele, 'tossing their whispering silver to the sun'; and amid them the house, -- a great square red-brick mass, made light and cheerful though by quoins and windows of white Sarsden stone, with high peaked French roofs, broken by louvres and dormers, haunted by a thousand swallows and starlings. The Beauties of Nature and the Wonders of the World We Live In
  • We wanted an experienced sportscaster, and Waggoner fit the bill.
  • Outside the door Osred was harnessing two horses to the waggon.
  • A park full of merry haymakers; gay red and blue waggons; stalwart horses switching off the flies; dark avenues of tall elms; groups of abele, 'tossing their whispering silver to the sun;' and amid them the house. Prose Idylls, New and Old
  • Some, however, stayed to bring a kind of dray with them, and then, when these also had started, he could see Harry Scott moving slowly off in the waggon towards the town. A Canadian Heroine, Volume 2 A Novel
  • But there was a lot of potential in Waggoner’s book, and I’m hoping that as he gets more practice, Matt Richter will become a permanent figure on the Urban Fantasy landscape. SF Site: Moxyland & Nekropolis « A Working Title
  • Here we heard that Moselikatse was advancing to make an end of us, so we made our laager as strong as we could, lashing the disselboom of each waggon beneath the framework of that before it and filling the spaces beneath and between with the crowns and boughs of sharp-thorned mimosa trees, which we tied to the trek tows and brake chains so that they could not be torn away. Swallow: a tale of the great trek
  • He brings his waggon with him, and outspans on some open space within the town. The Boer in Peace and War
  • About half-distance between this prolonged escarpment and the outlying hills six large "Conestoga" waggons, locked tongue and tail together, enclosing a lozenge-shaped or elliptical space -- a _corral_ -- inside which are fifteen men and five horses. The Lone Ranche
  • The tradesman leaves his counter, and the car – man his waggon; the butcher throws down his tray; the baker his basket; the milkman his pail; the errand – boy his parcels; the school – boy his marbles; the paviour his pickaxe; the child his battledore. Oliver Twist
  • ‘The idea is we will be able to put a very fine mist on rocks or soil that will stain microorganisms and biofilms with dyes that will make themselves visible for microscope analysis,’ said Waggoner.
  • -- Then again there is the PUFFER AND CONDENSER, wherein, if matter be wanting in the work, a prefacial waggon is put before the chapteral pony, the former acting the part of pemican, or concentrated essence, the latter representing the liquid necessary for cooking it; the whole forming a _potage au lecteur_, known among professional men as "soldier's broth. Lands of the Slave and the Free Cuba, the United States, and Canada
  • The descent to the spruit, which is often a short, steep pitch and is then called a donga, needs careful driving, and the ascent up the opposite bank is for a heavy waggon a matter of great difficulty. Impressions of South Africa
  • Drawing nearer, Waggoner, who by name or by sight knew every resident of the town, made up his mind that the loiterer was a stranger. The Thunders of Silence
  • He was not displeased that he had not seen it in the tribute waggon, was he?
  • On this level part a horse travels with four waggons in his train, these together with their loads weighing sixteen tons, at the rate of three miles an hour, and continuing to do this eight hours, or through the distance of twenty-four miles*. The Numbers of Carlton, Addressed to the People of North Carolina, on a Central Rail-Road Through the State. The Rights of Freemen is an Open Trade 232 p.
  • The third waggon was called the armoury, or the Major's waggon; it was not fitted up like the two first. The Mission; or Scenes in Africa
  • So they arrayed them in gold and many a fair thing, and she went with her damsels till they came to the hall of Brynhild, and that hall was dight with gold, and stood on a high hill; and whenas their goings were seen, it was told Brynhild, that a company of women drove toward the burg in gilded waggons. The Story of the Volsungs
  • -- Then again there is the PUFFER AND CONDENSER, wherein, if matter be wanting in the work, a prefacial waggon is put before the chapteral pony, the former acting the part of pemican, or concentrated essence, the latter representing the liquid necessary for cooking it; the whole forming a _potage au lecteur_, known among professional men as "soldier's broth. Lands of the Slave and the Free Cuba, the United States, and Canada
  • Legge, Therefore a wise prince, marching the whole day, does not go far from his baggage waggons.
  • Leicestershire, and there introduced the cast-iron edge-rail, with flanches cast upon the tire of the waggon-wheels to keep them on the track, instead of having the margin or flanch cast upon the rail itself; and this plan was shortly after adopted in other places. Lives of the Engineers The Locomotive. George and Robert Stephenson
  • There were all sorts of things in the waggons -- food and corn, to which I allowed our men to help themselves, for our horses were short of oats and our men of rations, and some of the tinned meats, "gulasch" and "blutwurst," were quite excellent and savoury, much more so than our everlasting bully beef. The Doings of the Fifteenth Infantry Brigade August 1914 to March 1915
  • He yoked them to the waggon, the two shafters first.
  • Exchange) to dispose of their wares; having obtained a cast in a waggon there and back, and carrying home faithfully every penny of their gainings, to deposit in the common stock. The Ground-Ash

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