 The carrioles glide over the snow with great smoothness, and so little noise do they make in sliding along, that it is necessary to have a number of bells attached to the harness. I know no way of winding up this slight sketch of sledging, than by giving...  Fifty Years' Biographical Reminiscences - Page 101by Lord William Pitt Lennox - 1863Full view - About this book
 | 724 pages
...body of a chariot or coach, put on runners in the same manner, and both arc entirely lined with furs. The carrioles glide over the snow with great smoothness,...winding up this slight sketch of sledging, than by giving Sam Slick's opinion upon the subject : "A little tidy scrumptious lookin' slag, a real clipper... | |
 | 1799 - 612 pages
...in seeing and being seen, and the ladies always go out in most superb dresses of furs. The carióles glide over the snow with great smoothness, and so...to have a number of bells attached to the harness, ora person continually sounding a horn ^o guard against accidents. The rapidity of the motion, with... | |
 | Isaac Weld - 1807 - 468 pages
...in seeing and being seen, and the ladies always go out in most superb dresses of furs. The carioles glide over the snow with great smoothness, and so...to have a number of bells attached to the harness, or a person continually sounding a horn to guard against accidents. The rapidity of the motion, with... | |
 | Isaac Weld - 1807 - 504 pages
...seeing and being -<vi>, and the ladies always go out in most superb dresses of furs. > The carioles glide over the snow with great smoothness, and so...sliding along, that it is necessary to have a number of bell> attached to the harness, or a person continually sounding a horn to guard against accidents.... | |
 | Daniel Blowe - 1820 - 788 pages
...one before the other, as the tra«k in the roads will not wlmit of their going abresst. The carioles glide over the snow with great smoothness, and so little noise do they make in sliding along, tint it is necessary to b»T« n number of bells attached to tin: borUMs, 01 a person ccntinuDlly sounding... | |
 | 1854
...body of a chariot or coach, put on runners in the same manner, and both are entirely lined with furs. The carrioles glide over the snow with great smoothness,...winding up this slight sketch of sledging, than by giving Sam Slick's opinion upon the subject : "A little tidy scrumptious lookin' slag, a real clipper... | |
 | 1869
...the same manner, and entirely lined with furs. The carioles glide over the snow with great swiftness, and so little noise do they make in sliding along that it is necessary to have a number of small bells attached to the harness. Few writers have given a more graphic account of sledging than... | |
 | 720 pages
...body of a chariot or coach, put on runners in the same manner, and both are entirely lined with furs. The carrioles glide over the snow with great smoothness,...winding up this slight sketch of sledging, than by giving Sam Slick's opinion upon the subject : "A little tidy scrumptious lookin' slag, a real clipper... | |
 | John William Carleton - 1843 - 672 pages
...runners in the same manner, and entirely lined with furs. The carioles glide over the snow with.'great smoothness, and so little noise do they make in sliding...necessary to have a number of bells attached to the narness. I know no better way of winding up this slight sketch of sledging than by giving Sam Slick's... | |
 | John William Carleton - 1870 - 614 pages
...the same manner, and entirely lined with furs. The carioles glide over the snow with great swiftness, and so little noise do they make in sliding along that it is necessary to have a number of small bells attached to the harness. Few writers have given a more graphic account of sledging than... | |
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