Occasionally the rails are laid upon the extreme verge of a giddy precipice; and looking from the carriage window the traveller gazes sheer down, without a stone or scrap of fence between, into the mountain depths below. History of Cambria County, Pennsylvania - Page 363by Henry Wilson Storey - 1907Full view - About this book
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...spaces between, being traversed, sometimes by horse, and sometimes by engine power, as the case demands. Occasionally the rails are laid upon the extreme verge...precipice ; and looking from the carriage window, the traveller gazes sheer down, without a stone or scrap of fence between, into the mountain depths below.... | |
| Charles Dickens - 1842 - 646 pages
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| Charles Dickens - United States - 1842 - 452 pages
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| Charles Dickens - 1866 - 472 pages
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| Charles Dickens - 1868 - 658 pages
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| Charles Dickens - Canada - 1868 - 130 pages
...horse, and sometimes hy engine power, as the case demands. - Occasionally the rails are laid upon tho extreme verge of a giddy precipice ; and, looking from the carriage window, the traveller gazes sheer down, without a stone or scrap of fence hetween, into the mountain depths helow... | |
| Charles Dickens - 1877 - 398 pages
...spaces between being traversed sometimes by horse and sometimes by engine power, as the case demands. Occasionally the rails are laid upon the extreme verge...of fence between, into the mountain depths below. The journey is very carefully mode, however; only two carriages traveling together; and, while proper... | |
| Phebe Ann Hanaford - Novelists, English - 1871 - 424 pages
...spaces between being traversed, sometimes by horse, and sometimes by engine-power, as the case demands. Occasionally, the rails are laid upon the extreme verge of a giddy precipice ; and, looking from the carriage-window, the traveller gazes sheer down, without a stone, or scrap of fence, between, into... | |
| Charles Dickens - 1877 - 502 pages
...spaces between being traversed, sometimes by horse, and sometimes by engine power, as the case demands. Occasionally the rails are laid upon the extreme verge...precipice ; and looking from the carriage window, the traveller gazes sheer down, without a stone ov scrap of fence between, into the mountain depths below.... | |
| Charles Dickens - Italy - 1880 - 496 pages
...spaces between being traversed, sometimes by horse, and sometimes by engine power, a$ the case demands. Occasionally the rails are laid upon the extreme verge...precipice ; and looking from the carriage window, the traveller gazes sheer down, without a stone or scrap of fence between, into the mountain depths below.... | |
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