Stokers and Pokers, Or, The London and North-Western Railway, the Electric Telegraph, and the Railway Clearing-HouseJohn Murray, 1849 - 208 Seiten |
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Seite 44 - Talia flammato secum dea corde volutans 50 Nimborum in patriam, loca feta furentibus Austris, Aeoliam venit. Hie vasto rex Aeolus antro Luctantes ventos tempestatesque sonoras Imperio premit, ac vinclis et carcere frenat.
Seite 42 - ... descriptions are again to be seen in our most public thoroughfares concentrating upon the focus of Euston Square ; and thus, with a certain alleviation on Sundays, this strange feverish admixture of confusion and quietness, of society and solitude, continues intermittently from...
Seite 116 - ... there is no word more ambiguous in its meaning than Possession. It is interchangeably used to describe actual possession and constructive possession which often so shade into one another that it is difficult to say where one ends and the other begins.
Seite 175 - CLXXVII •Oh, that the Desert were my dwelling-place, With one fair Spirit for my minister, That I might all forget the human race, And, hating no one, love but only her ! Ye Elements, in whose ennobling stir I feel myself exalted, can ye not Accord me such a being ? Do I err In deeming such inhabit many a spot, Though with them to converse can rarely be our lot...
Seite 63 - ... exceed ; for not only is a driver severely, and occasionally without mercy, punished for any negligence he himself may commit, but he is invariably sentenced personally to suffer on the spot for any accident that from the negligence of others may suddenly befall the road along which he travels, but over which he has not the smallest control. The greatest hardship he has to endure, however, is from cold, especially that produced in winter by evaporation from his drenched clothes passing rapidly...
Seite 82 - ... engine-chimneys, a number of very large red-brick workshops, six red houses for officers — one red beer-shop, two red public-houses, and, we are glad to add, a substantial red school-room and a neat stone church, the whole lately built by order of a Railway Board, at a railway station, by a railway contractor...
Seite 54 - Indeed, it would be infinitely easier to say what there is not, than what there is, in the forty compartments, like great wine-bins, in which all this lost property is arranged. One is chokefull of men's hats; another, of parasols, umbrellas, and sticks of every possible description. One would think that all the ladies' reticules on earth were deposited in a third.
Seite 86 - Considering that the row of young persons have among them all only seven right hands, with but very little fingers at the end of each, it is really astonishing how, with such slender assistance, they can in the short space of a few minutes manage to extend and withdraw them so often — sometimes to give a cup of tea — sometimes to receive half-a-crown, of which they have to return two shillings — then to give an old gentleman a plate of...
Seite 53 - among the men. It having, however, been ascertained that a few of the Railway men who had spare cash purchased the greater portion of these articles, it has, we understand, very lately been determined henceforward to sell the whole of this property by auction exclusively to the public; and as the Company's servants are not allowed to be purchasers, they can no longer derive any benefit whatever from lost property, which must often be of inestimable value to its owner, and which they therefore should...
Seite 62 - ... details. As soon as an engine has safely dragged a passenger-train to the top of the incline at Camden Station, at which point the couplingchains which connected it with its load are instantly unhooked, it is enabled by the switchman to get from the main line upon a pair of almost parallel side rails, along which, while the tickets are being collected, it may be seen and heard retrograding and hissing past its train. After a difficult and intricate passage from one set of rails to another, advancing:...