 | J. C. Gilleland - 1851 - 478 pages
...loud laugh rose at my expense, the dry jest, the wise calculation of losses and expenditures; the dull but endless repetition of the Fulton folly. Never...length the day arrived when the experiment was to be got into operation. To me it was a most trying and interesting occasion. I invited many friends to... | |
 | 1851 - 70 pages
...laugh rose at my expense ; the dry jest, the wise calculation of losses and expenditure ; the dull but endless repetition of ' The Fulton Folly' Never...remark, a bright hope, or a warm wish, cross my path. " At length the boat was finished, and the day arrived when the trial was to be made. To me it was... | |
 | 1851 - 604 pages
...loud laugh rose at my expense; the dry jest, the wise calculation of losses and expenditure; the dull but endless repetition of 'the Fulton folly!' Never...remark, a bright hope, or a warm wish cross my path. " At length the day arrived when the experiment was to be made. To me it was a most trying and interesting... | |
 | Eli Bowen - 1852 - 456 pages
...laugh rose at my expense, the dry jest, the wise calculation of losses H and expenditures, the dull but endless repetition of the " Fulton folly." Never...length the day arrived when the experiment was to go into operation. To me it was a most trying and interesting occasion. I invited many friends to go... | |
 | 1848 - 622 pages
...the wise calculation of losses and expenditures ; the dull but endless repetition of Fulton Jolly. Never did a single encouraging remark, a bright hope,...length the day arrived when the experiment was to be got into operation. To me if was a most trying and interesting occasion. I invited many friends to... | |
 | Eli Bowen - 1853 - 530 pages
...loud laugh rose at my expense, the dry jest, the wise calculation of losses and expenditures, the dull but endless repetition of the " Fulton folly." Never...itself was but politeness veiling its doubts or hiding ita reproaches. At length the day arrived when the experiment was to go into operation. To me it was... | |
 | William Bromwell - 1854 - 208 pages
...laugh rose at my expense, the dry jest, the wise calculation of losses H and expenditures, the dull but endless repetition of the " Fulton folly." Never...length the day arrived when the experiment was to go into operation. To me it was a most trying and interesting occasion. I invited many friends to go... | |
 | Eli Bowen - 1854 - 526 pages
...loud laugh rose at my expense, the dry jest, the wise calculation of losses and expenditures, the dull but endless repetition of the " Fulton folly." Never...length the day arrived when the experiment was to go into operation. To me it was a most trying and interesting occasion. I invited many friends to go... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1857 - 488 pages
...often rose at my expense ; the dry jest ; the wise calculation of losses and expenditures ; the dull but endless repetition of " the Fulton Folly." Never...politeness veiling its doubts, or hiding its reproaches. 4. At length the day arrived when the experiment was to be put into operation. To me it was a most... | |
 | Humphrey Phelps - 1857 - 60 pages
...jest, the wise calculation of losses and expenditure ; the dull but endless repetition of ' The Fidton Folly.' Never did a single encouraging remark, a bright hope, or a warm wish, cross my path. " At length the boat was finished, and the day arrived when the trial was to be made. To me it was... | |
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Never did a single encouraging remark, a bright hope, or a warm wish, cross my path. 
