Donkey-carts driven by women, and bearing barrels of milk, abound on the Limerick Road.
People who had done their business went away in queer carts made to carry turf--little things with sides like garden palings four or five feet high.
They run through the most fertile section of the island, are quite level, and available for carts and automobiles, but in the rainy season they become very muddy.
Sliding and slipping we descended, burying ourselves in these profundities and gropingly encountering the hurly-burly of a convoy of carts and the advance guard of the regiment we were relieving.
We can see the town, the station and carts on the road; and yonder three villages make harmony, sometimes more carefully limned by bursts of sunshine.
After having crossed the river we turned inland; cutting our way through a belt of mangrove scrub, about half a mile wide; we got the carts through with comparative ease, the ground being harder than usual.
Owing to the irregularities of the surface the axletree of one of our cartsgave way this day.
We all felt the inconvenience of leaving the carts behind, and I in particular.
We were forced to carry the loading of our carts and saddle-horses over on our shoulders, a task of no small difficulty and labour, the mud giving way up to the knee at every step.
The banks of the second creek were nearly twenty feet high, so that we were obliged to lower down the carts into its bed by means of ropes and pulleys, fastened to the branches of the trees which overhung the creek.
We had great difficulty in getting the carts out of the mud.
Mr. Kennedy went with a party into the swamps to ascertain if it were possible to make a road for the carts to pass through.
The horses were then safely taken across, and we lifted out the carts and carried them to the other side, finding that it was useless to attempt to draw them out.
We travelled on till dusk, when we arrived at a small creek, overgrown with grass, which we imagined we should cross with little difficulty; but the carts were set fast in the mud, and some of the horses got bogged.
In many places the wheels of the carts sank to the axletrees in consequence of the rottenness of the ground near the creeks.
Mr. Kennedy arrived at the determination this day, to leave the carts behind at this camp, as they caused so much extra labour and delay in travelling.
And no wonder, for the choristers in the operas walk behind fruit-carts all day long, and often call out their wares in the musical tones learnt while following their more select profession as public singers.
Near the houses are the stables, where the buffaloes and carts are kept, and here and there is a well, over which hangs a balancing-pole with a bucket at one end and a stone at the other.
The appearance of these birds whetted the appetites of the "dog-fed" soldiers, but no rifle bullet seemed to be able to find them.
In the background are the trenches on the southern shoulder of Chunuk Bair.
Pippin-cheeked women are driving in, perched upon the high seats of two-wheeled hooded carts and bringing with them fowls and garden truck.
Many of the market carts had women seated in them, carrying large white baskets full of fowls and ducks, or eggs and butter, all carefully tucked away under snow-white cloths.
The sun was hot too, and the road dusty, and such a number of carriages and carts passed them that the air all the time seemed full of a haze of dust--at least it did until they had got a couple of miles or so away from Norton.
Broken pieces of glass, bits of shell and upturned cobblestones fill the streets, and battered carts and wagons lie everywhere.
Peasants were passing by in haste, dragging two-wheeled push carts loaded with the baubles which they counted dear, but which in death are of little value.
Thy sister--What owl's folly told thee to draw thy carts across the road?
Two or three carts passed, jingling out to the suburbs; a coughing policeman and a hurrying foot-passenger or two who sang to keep off evil spirits.
What chance was there for German ammunitioncarts to force their way through that struggling human wall?
The carts jolted slowly down the hill, the brakes grinding against the wheels, the little rough-coated horses holding back in the shafts.
As we turned the corner we saw a long gray procession of carts crawling down the hill toward us.
We met bullock-carts crawling into town, coming from distant villages, with fresh vegetables for the markets.
But the rumble and creak persisted so long that I went to the window at last to see why there were so many more carts than usual.
Sometimes thecarts were covered with faded cloth stretched over rounded frameworks like gypsy-wagons.
The refugees behind left their cartsand came up to see what had halted the procession.
At first we thought it was the regular train of carts that climb Institutska Oulitza every evening at six o'clock carrying provisions to the barracks.
Some of the carts were open farm wagons, piled with hay, and hung with strange assortments of household utensils.
The other day we were waiting on a street corner for a line of the refugees' covered carts to pass.
Still the carts were coming over the hill, gray and dusty, with the peasants and their wives walking beside the horses' heads.
The carts of wounded would pass regularly, stopping occasionally for water or tea.
I recognized the covered gypsy wagons and the open carts with their bulky loads.
The peasants, with merry chatter and banter, carried water and wood and all that had been brought in the carts into the larger cabin.
Bullock carts or coolies are required to carry all extra baggage.
The five carts were driven away by the patriots and the soldiers went on but without the arms.
One of them, Marinus Willett, was hurrying through Broad Street toward the Coffee-House where the meeting was to be held, when he came upon the soldiers moving silently along with five carts loaded with chests of arms.
Their bodies were thrown out of doors, and every morning gathered up in carts and carried to the outskirts of the city to be buried in a trench without ceremony.
These are not merely opinions, but facts; for I actually passed three carts broken down in these eighteen miles, of execrable memory.
And I trust this will operate as a caution to all carters or persons who may have the care of carts and other carriages, to behave themselves peaceably and properly on the king's highway.
Almost every day women go there from Reikjavik with hand-carts filled with soiled clothing.
Then the clothes are neatly packed in the little carts and taken back to the town to be returned to the owners.
They drag the sledges over the snow in the winter and the little carts in the summer.
So now, to-morrow, bring as many carts as you like, and I will give you as a present as many rupees as you can take away on them in half a day.
He set off again to find Ajit's father, and met him pulling the three hundred carts along.
On this white surface, with its conical heaps of earth resembling huts, the fluctuating line of carts reminded us of an emigration of barbarians deserting their native heath.
Our post-chaise (for we also travel by post-chaise), was disturbed every now and then by a number of carts filled with the grey soil which is found in these parts and which is transported to some place and utilised as manure.
The drivers of each and every one of the slow-moving market-carts we met were stretched in the sun upon their merchandise, sound a sleep.
These carts were Oriental in appearance and had the most distinctive appearance we had yet noted in Spain.
In the public gardens water-carts were standing, and crowds of men were baling water up from the decorative ponds.
The vermilion houses, called the Malecon, sheltered a transitory population; visitors to the baths, who like ourselves arrived in carts with furniture, and after a few months disappeared back to town duties.
It was set in a canyon of a street so deep that the midday sun for one short hour or so shines on the cobbles, so narrow that the carts which pass through it are permitted to go in one sole direction marked at the entrance by a pointing arrow.
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