 | 1846 - 706 pages
...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...it be after a winter ? The only mending it receives is tumbling in some loose stones, which serve no other purpose than jolting a carriage in the most... | |
 | Sir Henry Parnell - Roads - 1833 - 474 pages
...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...it be after a winter ? The only mending it receives is tumbling in some loose stones, which serve no other purpose than jolting a carriage in the most... | |
 | George Richardson Porter - Great Britain - 1838 - 396 pages
...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 ruts, which...places is the tumbling in some loose stones, which serve no other purpose but jolting a carriage in the most intolerable manner. These are not merely... | |
 | 1838 - 492 pages
...country to avoid it, for a thousand to one they break their necks or their limbs, by overthrows or breakings down. They will here meet with ruts, which...it be after a winter ? The only mending it receives is tumbling in some loose stones, which serve no other purpose than jolting a carriage in the most... | |
 | Sir Henry Parnell - 1838 - 512 pages
...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...it be after a winter ? The only mending it receives is tumbling in some loose stones, which serve no other purpose than jolting a carriage in the most... | |
 | James Christie Whyte - Dressage - 1840 - 614 pages
...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 ruts, which...mending it receives in places, is the tumbling in loose stones, which serve no other purpose but jolting the carriage in a most intolerable manner. These... | |
 | India - 1858 - 438 pages
...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... | |
 | American literature - 1850 - 602 pages
...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...it be after a winter ? The only mending it receives is tumbling in some loose stones, which serve no other purpose than jolting a carriage in the most... | |
 | Great Britain - 1845 - 916 pages
...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...therefore, must it be after a winter ? The only mending it in places receives, is the tumbling in some loose stones, which serve no other purpose than jolting... | |
 | Anna Maria Hall - 842 pages
...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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They will here meet with ruts, which I actually measured, four feet deep, and floating with mud, only from a wet summer. 
