There was even a sort of 'Zoo' or menagerie on board, in which were many very curious animals which the new passengers had never seen or heard of before.
He was listlessly watching thepassengers as they descended when a soft voice from the window addressed him, "May I trouble you for your arm as I get down?
Can it be that the drivers on this line are privately instructed to dispatch all passengers maimed by accident, to prevent tedious litigation?
Oh, he don't bite," she added, as the two lady passengers fluttered into a corner.
The lady passengers moved closer to each other; the Washoe husband looked abstractedly at the fire, and the tall man apparently turned his eyes inward for self-support at this emergency.
In fact, the repast over, a chillness radiated from the two lady passengers that no pine boughs brought in by Yuba Bill and cast as a sacrifice upon the hearth could wholly overcome.
She did not go to bed on Wednesday night before the mail arrived, and then she awoke her husband, and there were passengers to 'tend to.
And as the automobiles came up he scanned the passengers hungrily--until at last he saw Drusilla.
The blowing up of a liner with American passengersmay be the prelude.
And again on the same date: "If a British liner full of American passengers be blown up, what will Uncle Sam do?
It was a fine day in spring, and the old city looked gay with its loitering passengers and gaudy shops, and under that clear blue exhilarating sky so peculiar to France.
After breakfast, the passengers began to display their uneasiness, and some of them called the captain very hard names, because he would not go on.
Some of the passengersnow interfered, and the colored boy was prevented from executing vengeance on the assailant.
All the passengers were taken off in safety, and the relief ship stood by till the Momus was beached in shallow water and the fires drowned out.
In the old days she’d have stuck there, while the passengers took to the boats or played Robinson Crusoe on the island.
The passengers re-embarked and the ship resumed her voyage.
There were days into which the sun shone not; when everybody and everything was sticky with salty distillations; when half the passengers were sea-sick and the other half sick of the sea.
Hours, even days, passed by, and the passengers on the ocean steamers were sometimes kept waiting the arrival of the river boats that were aground or had been belated up the stream.
A year before our journey an overcrowded barge was swamped at Virgin Bay and four and twenty passengers were drowned.
They made a pretty picture, and more than one of thepassengers upon the platform cast admiring glances as they passed by.
He searched for a pocket- handkerchief, but had evidently forgotten to bring one, and the other passengers began to smile and titter, all except one girl, who opened her bag and presented him with a nice clean one of her own.
From an encounter with highwaymen, few passengers emerged with flying colours, having had the best of the deal.
When he reached the end of the car he turned and surveyed the passengers leisurely, then he came back to her seat.
The conductor's cry of warning smote the air and the train passengers made a final bustle of preparation for a start.
When the captain spoke of carrying to New York three passengers a year before Worth became quietly interested.
About that time I enlarged my cabin, and since then I have been carrying from four to twenty passengers each trip.
Supposing every man, woman, and child in Great Britain to make ten journeys by rail yearly, the number would greatly fall short of the passengers carried in 1873.
Then mixed trains of passengers and merchandise began to run; and the result was that the railway company found it necessary to take the entire charge and working of the traffic.
Greatly to the surprise of the directors, morepassengers presented themselves as travellers by the train than could conveniently be carried.
At the Goose Pool and Early Nook, it was common for these coaches to stop; and there, as Jonathan would say, passengers and coachmen ‘liquored.
He was requested to slacken speed; but suspecting his passengers to be afraid, he only flogged the brutes into a still more furious gallop.
The resident engineer was sorely puzzled in the outset by the problem of constructing a road for heavy locomotives, with trains of passengers and goods, upon a bog which he had found incapable of supporting his own weight!
More roomy and commodious carriages were provided, the original first-class compartments being seated for four passengers only.
In 1824, Mr. Vallance of Brighton took out a patent for projecting passengers through a tube large enough to contain a train of carriages; the tube being previously exhausted of its atmospheric air.
Few are aware of the complicated means and agencies that are in constant operation on railways day and night, to ensure the safety of the passengers to their journey’s end.
The local authorities adroitly took advantage of the opportunity, and insisted on the provision of a road for ordinary vehicles and foot passengers in addition to the railroad.
Several other passengers had drawn toward the scene of the altercation, and all awaited the denouement.
It was not until late the following afternoon that Tarzan saw anything more of the fellow passengers into the midst of whose affairs his love of fair play had thrust him.
The cloth was a piece of an old sail, so soiled and dirty that it effectually deprived Madame Pfeiffer and her fellow-passengers of any small appetite with which they might have sat down to dinner.
She was wind-driven to the westward, so that her passengers saw but few of the monsters of the Northern Seas.
Some of the passengers read papers, others read books and magazines, while others from the outer decks watched the progress of the large boat as it swiftly coursed over the waves.
In a railway accident many passengersare killed, but Paul is fortunate enough to assist a Chicago merchant, who out of gratitude takes him into his employ.
Almost all the passengershad landed and he was nearly alone on the great steamer.
She had not a cent of money in her pocket, and her new familiarity with the workings of the Maine Central Railway assured her that it did not carry passengers for nothing.
A lone mule drew the car, and sometimes drew it off the track, when the passengers would get out and push it on again.
Nor could its passengers have endured such a thing, because the faster they were carried the less time they had to spare!
At the rear door of the car there was no platform, but a step where passengers clung in wet clumps when the weather was bad and the car crowded.
The previous passengers made little objection to such gallantry on the part of the car: they were wont to expect as much for themselves on like occasion.
Though at that time still only a boy he practically took command of the passengers and was at once accepted by them as their Boss during the rest of the trip.
My fellow passengers were mostly Californians hurrying off to a new mining camp and, with the crew, looked a very unpleasant lot of ruffians.
Nearly all the male passengers who were able to be about spent their time drinking and quarrelling.
And now the mail-car comes swinging up to the door; the one or two passengers alight, glad to stretch their legs; the letter bags are hauled down, and Miss Douglas follows them indoors.
At that it's better'n being a man in a monkey suit, with nothing to do but impress the passengers and order around the crew.
In a moment, the first eight passengers were assembled into two groups, helped into space suits, with a special portable suit for the little boy, and loaded in the jet boats.
He waited for a laugh, but there was only a slight stir as the passengers shifted nervously in their seats.
If we took passengers aboard and it suddenly shot up--well, we only have the three lead-lined suits to protect us.
The young skipper handed him a clip board with the names of the passengers and crew and followed Strong.
Immediately the fun was forgotten and the passengers crowded around for the roll call.
Strong and James had returned to ferry more passengers to the Polaris.
In less than a half hour, the forty passengers and crewmen of the Lady Venus were transferred in alphabetical order to the waiting Polaris.
The first load of passengers had left the Lady Venus.
James, you and I will operate the jet boats and ferry the passengers to the Polaris.
I had a choice of either saving about fifteenpassengers on the jet boats, and leaving the others, or take a chance on saving everybody by using the power to send out a message.
He pointed an accusing finger at the young skipper as the other passengers loudly backed him up.
If Captain Strong is thinking about putting those passengers back aboard, I think you'd better tell him about the radiation.
Roger turned to face the assembledpassengers and smiled.
Roger kept up a continual line of patter and jokes and stories, making a fool of himself, but keeping the remaining passengers amused and their minds off the dangers of the rapidly building reaction mass.
The breeze was quite fresh and there were not many passengers on the forward deck where the girls were seated.
With the jolts of the waggon, and accidents of the journey, various more exclamations and movements of the passengersshowed what a motley company we were.
This invitation was, after a minute or two, accepted by the passengers of the chariot: the hackney-coachman promising to drive them to Dublin 'in a hurry.
The stop had roused everybody, and the breakfast tables were promptly filled, except such as the passengers landing at Plymouth had vacated; these were stripped of their cloths, and the remaining commensals placed at others.
Most of the passengers at starting were English and American; but they showed no prescience of the international affinition which has since realized itself, in their behavior toward one another.
At other ports profiles passed and repassed, as if the steerage passengers had their promenade under them, but they paused no more.
The day ended with an entertainment in the saloon for one of the marine charities which address themselves to the hearts and pockets of passengers on all steamers.
Some people now interrupted their leave-taking; but the arriving passengers only arrived more rapidly at the gang-ways; the bulks of baggage swung more swiftly into the air.
The passengers glanced at one another; the two table-stewards, with their napkins in their hands, smiled vaguely, and made some indefinite movements.
In the morning the little steward's bugle called the passengers from their dreams, and half an hour later called them to their breakfast, after such as chose had been served with coffee by their bedroom-stewards.
She said that she wished to be let perfectly alone, even by her own emotions, and for this reason she forbade March to bring her a list of the passengers till after they had left Queenstown lest it should be too exciting.
The passengers incessantly mounted by the canvas-draped galleries leading, fore and aft, into the ship.
The passengers had to be put on board in the wherries at a charge of threepence each.
I have seen them take up passengers at the top of Sloane Street, who arrived there in one of the old two-horse hackney coaches, and it appeared quite an undertaking to get the passengers on board.
Omnibus conductors, however, "frivel" as they may among themselves, are as adamant where any infringement of their rules by their passengers is concerned.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "passengers" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
