From London to Gravesend the figure required was six shillings, and the other fares were proportionately reasonable.
The regulations as to fares and fines are all very curious, and a glance at the droll bye-laws of the Watermen's Company seems to lift a curious veil between us and a dead society.
The fares made for the year 1785 were easy enough.
These first and second class fares would speedily be reduced, by abolishing protection, to 3 and 6 dollars.
When it thusfares with a people, they make claims on their language which were never made on it before.
It fares with a language then, as it would fare with a river bed, suddenly required to deliver a far larger volume of waters than had hitherto been its wont.
He need but think of beauty and simplicity of expression; his work will grow on and on, one thing leading to another, as it fares with a beautiful tree.
If the small holder has luck and he succeeds, by utmost exertion, to extract a tolerable sum from the land, or to obtain an exceptionally cheap loan, then he can save himself; otherwise he fares as shown above.
How the sense of shame, or morality fares thereby, horrifying facts proclaim.
The highest fares were charged by the mails and fast day coaches, the heavy night coaches having to be content with the lower rate.
I can only suppose that the fares charged to the passengers were very high.
To compare this with existing railway fares we may strike an average and say sixpence a mile; but the charges will be found to approach the minimum more often on the river than in the waggon.
As for ferries, the ferryman occasionally made the passengers pay what he pleased by collecting fares in the middle of the river.
All night long cash fares are being collected on trains.
He collects tickets and fares as directed by the general passenger agent and reports on forms prescribed by the auditor.
True prudential law would make one railway serve it thoroughly, and fix the fares necessary to pay for thorough service.
He glanced up at the dial which indicated the fares and began to count the change in his pocket.
The man counted out the change with stiff, red fingers, closed his lips firmly as if to keep back an obvious rejoinder, rang up the six fares with careful accuracy, and gave the signal to go ahead.
Up to that time the public accommodation for passengers was confined to a few mail and day coaches on the great lines of road, the fares by which were very high, and quite beyond the reach of the poorer or middle-class people.
Our faresare so close to the first cost, that if any man runs cheaper than I do, he must starve off, as few can serve the public lower and better than I do.
Fortunately, the railroad fares to our next stand were light and we had three days there.
The people knew that everything in the hotel was all right and that I had the railroad fares snugly stowed away in my inside pocket.
What I lament most is, that the spirituality of my nature does not expand and rise the nearer I approach the grave, as yours does, and as it fares with my beloved partner.
Many States have chartered railway corporations, and provided that fares and freight rates should be reduced when dividends exceeded a certain per cent.
Thus it may very likely happen that 5-cent fares will yield it the greatest net income.
Fares when they want you to pull up 'ave got little thought for your eyes and they don't stick at trifles.
Rates and fares which would be just to the companies in the frontier regions of the State would be extortionate in the thickly populated areas.
One act established maximum passenger fares varying from two and one-half to five and one-half cents a mile for the different classes into which the roads were divided.
Nor do fareshere (including the Government duty), materially differ from those charged on the railways in France.
Guards receive lodging money when they have to sleep out and a percentage on the excess fares collected, amounting together to about £4 15s.
But if to the nominal fares is added the charge which would be made for the same weight of luggage as that which is carried free in this country, the difference is reduced.
Taking the average fares charged in this country per mile to be 2d.
Sir Bernhard Samuelson’s reference to passenger fares calls only for a few remarks.
The fares in Belgium are, for the reasons already stated, lower than those in this country.
The fares of all public conveyances are now fixed, and the attempts which drivers occasionally make to cheat you, seem to be rather the involuntary impulses of old habit than deliberate intentions to do you wrong.
And now I know who this man is who fares through the desert in solitary thought, and to whom horror has shown the way to peace.
Their clothes and faresswallowed the salary of many months.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "fares" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
