 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1849 - 664 pages
...path was sometimes blocked up during a long time by carriers, neither of whom would break the way. It happened, almost every day, that coaches stuck...some neighboring farm to tug them out of the slough. But in bad seasons the traveler had to encounter inconveniences still more serious. Thoresby, who was... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1849 - 560 pages
...Thoresby's Diary, Oct. 21, 1680, Aug. 3, 1712. Pepys'a Diary, June 12 and 16, 1668. Ibid. Feb. 28, 1660. that coaches stuck fast, until a team of cattle could...some neighboring farm to tug them out of the slough. But in bad seasons the traveller had to encounter inconveniences still more serious. Thoresby, who... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1849 - 470 pages
...path was sometimes blocked up during a long time by carriers, neither of whom would break the way. It happened, almost every day, that coaches stuck...until a team of cattle could be procured from some neighbouring farm, to tug them out of the slough. But in bad seasons the traveller had to encounter... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1849 - 464 pages
...path was sometimes blocked up during a long time by carriers, neither of whom would break the way. It happened, almost every day, that coaches stuck...until a team of cattle could be procured from some neighbouring farm, to tug them out of the slough. But in bad seasons the traveller had to encounter... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1849 - 550 pages
...Diary, Oct. 21, 1680, Aug. 3, 1712. t Pepys's Diary, June 12 and 16, 1668. ยง Ibid. Feb. 28, 1G60. that coaches stuck fast, until a team of cattle could be procured from some neighboring farm to tug thora out of the slough. But in bad seasons the traveller had to encounter inconveniences still more... | |
 | 1871 - 688 pages
...born. In the best of roads, there were deep ruts, which in bad weather would half bury a conveyance. It happened almost every day that coaches stuck fast, until a team of cattle could be got from some neighbouring farm to drag them out of the mud. On account of the badness of the roads... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1850 - 552 pages
...path was sometimes blocked up during a long time by carriers, neither of whom would break the way. It happened, almost every day, that coaches stuck...until a team of cattle could be procured from some neighbouring farm, to tug them out of the slough. But in bad seasons the traveller had to encounter... | |
 | William Tait, Christian Isobel Johnstone - 1852 - 776 pages
...patli was sometimes blocked up during a long time by carriers, ueitht'r of whom would break the way. It happened almost every day that coaches stuck fast,...until a team of cattle could be procured from some neighbouring farm to tug them out of the slough. But in bad seasons, the inconveniences, perils and... | |
 | Illinois State Agricultural Society - 1857 - 748 pages
...path was sometimes blocked up, during a long time, by carriers, neither of Avhom would break the way. It happened, almost every day, that coaches stuck...some neighboring farm to tug them out of the slough. People traveled with six horses, because with a smaller number there was great danger of sticking last... | |
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It happened, almost every day, that coaches stuck fast, until a team of cattle could be procured from some neighbouring farm to tug them out of the slough. 
