"Wagoner" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... street—dinners and dances which were attended by prosperous gentlefolk from the West End of the town. At that time he often waltzed in a drawing-room, the windows of which looked upon the spray of the fountain—at which Ruth Pinch loved to gaze when its jet resembled a wagoner's whip. How all old and precious things pass away! The dear old 'wagoner's whip' has been replaced by a pert, perky squirt that will never stir the heart or brain ...
— A Book About Lawyers • John Cordy Jeaffreson
... been engaged in controversy, were in great peril and distress. Danvers was in danger of being hanged, and Kiffin's grandsons were actually hanged. The tradition is, that during those evil days, Bunyan was forced to disguise himself as a wagoner, and that he preached to his congregation at Bedford in a smock-frock, with a cart-whip in his hand. But soon a great change took place. James the Second was at open war with the Church, and found it necessary to court the Dissenters. Some of the creatures of the government ...
— Brave Men and Women - Their Struggles, Failures, And Triumphs • O.E. Fuller
... delivering to us the keys of his wine cellar were not unlike those of Sir Hugh Berkley in "The Wagoner;" who ...
— Three Years in the Sixth Corps • George T. Stevens
... side the wagoner Is slouching slowly at his ease, Half-hidden in the windless blur Of white dust puffing to his knees. This wagon on the height above, From sky to sky on either hand, Is the sole thing that seems to move In ...
— The Ontario Readers: Fourth Book • Various |
