 | Samuel Smiles - 1857 - Страниц: 550
...head, essayed a reply — " Xa-na-na-na-'" — "What have us got to pay, I say?" " Ko-noth-nothing to pay! My de-dear Mr. Devil, do drive on as fast...of ground near Euston Square, where the London and North Western Station now stands; and it dragged behind it a wheel-carriage full of passengers. On... | |
 | Samuel Smiles - 1857 - Страниц: 576
...trembling in every limb, his teeth chattering in his head, essayed a reply — " Na-na-na-na- " — " What have us got to pay, I say ? " " No-noth-nothing...Devil, do drive on as fast as you can ! nothing to pay ! " CHAP. vHL] TREVETHICK'S RAILWAY LOCOMOTIVE. 71 The carriage safely reached the metropolis, and... | |
 | 1857 - Страниц: 754
...the bewildered man-of-office regained his utterance : " No-nothnothing to pay !" he stammered out ; " my de-dear Mr. Devil, do drive on as fast as you can ! nothing to pay !" Trevethick was a true genius, and had he devoted his mind steadily to the question of steam-locomotion,... | |
 | Samuel Smiles - 1858 - Страниц: 604
...trembling in every limb, his teeth chattering in his head, essayed a reply — " Na-na-na-na- " — " What have us got to pay, I say ? " " No-noth-nothing...of ground near Euston Square, where the London and North- Western Station now stands; and it dragged behind it a wheel-carriage full of passengers. On... | |
 | Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew - 1858 - Страниц: 710
...trembling in every limb, his teeth chattering in his head, essayed a reply : ' Na-na-na-na • ' ' ' What have us got to pay, I say ? ' ' ' No-noth-nothing...DEVIL, do drive on as fast as you can ! Nothing to pay 1 ' ' Our readers will miss a rare treat, if they do not secure an early perusal of this most interesting... | |
 | 1859 - Страниц: 852
...trembling in every limb, his teeth chatering in his head, essayed a reply — 'Na-na-na-na — ' ' What have us got to pay, I say! ' No-nothnothing to pay ! My dear Mr. Devil, do drive on as fast as you can ; nothing to pay ! !' " His next step was to construct... | |
 | John McGilchrist - 1860 - Страниц: 404
...disappeared. The inquiry, repeated to a subordinate, elicited the further reply, " Nothing to pay, my dear Mr. Devil ! do drive on as fast as you can ! Nothing to pay ! " By 1 804, Trevethick had an engine running on rails at Merthyr Tydvil. It was in most respects... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1860 - Страниц: 638
...trembling in every limb, with his teeth chattering as if he had got the ague. " Na—noth—nothing to pay ! My de—dear Mr. Devil, do drive on as fast as ever you can ! Nothing to pay !" This story rests on the authority of Coleridge ; and, " if not true,... | |
 | Samuel Smiles - 1862 - Страниц: 552
...are the haunts of Captain Trevithick's dragons — a characteristic name." The machine was afterwards publicly exhibited in an enclosed piece of ground near Euston Square, where the London and North- Western Station now stands, and it dragged behind it a wheel-carriage full of passengers. On... | |
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What have us got to pay here ? " asked Vivian. The poor toll-man, trembling in every limb, his teeth chattering in his head, essayed a reply — " Na-na-na-na- " — " What have us got to pay, I say ? " " No-noth-nothing to pay ! My de-dear Mr. Devil,... 
