They overtook several vans containing wounded soldiers, who seemed very cheerful, and were actually singing in chorus, as British Tommies have a habit of doing.
Miss Polly Vans was Mary Vans, daughter of Hugh and Mary Pemberton Vans, and aunt of Caty Vans.
Miss Caty Vans was the granddaughter of Hugh Vans, a merchant of Boston, who became a member of the Old South Church in 1728.
Miss Green now takes the liberty to send the materials for the Cap Miss Vans was so kind as to say she would make for her, which, when done, she engages to take special care of for Miss Vans' sake.
Aunt Deming is this minute come into the room, & from what her niece has wrote last, takes the liberty to remind you, that Miss Vans is a sister of the Old South Church, a society remarkable for Love.
Mrs. Deming thou't that it was a black skull cap linn'd with red that Miss Vans ment which she thou't would not be becoming to Miss Green's light complexion.
My Billet to Miss Vans was in the following words.
The Vans family Bible is in the library of the Essex Institute.
Two other daughters of Hugh Vans were a Mrs. Langdon, of Wiscasset, Maine, and Mrs. John Coburn.
Mary Vans Mason lived till 1820, having witnessed the termination of eight of the pastorates of the Old South Church.
The pay was bad, the hours of duty were long, the work was trying and the discomfort of the old postal vans baffled description.
The sunken arches, where the Post Office vans were kept, once formed part of the arcade within the south curtain, the wall line of which is marked out by brass lines let into the pavement.
The vans have been improved, and the bogies in which the large sections work are comparatively comfortable.
Railway, and for this payment a large fitted van with a well and extra vans for weekly foreign mails would be supplied.
All officers and servants of the Postal Department travelling in the Post Office vansor compartments shall be carried without passes.
For mail bags and parcels sent in luggage vans in charge of Railway guards the amount to be paid by the Postal Department shall be 1 pie per maund per mile.
The question of haulage of postalvans and of payment for the carriage of mails was finally settled in connection with State Railways.
There is plenty of smoking and drinking among the tilted vans and at the public-houses, and some singing, but general order and good-humor.
Then the mouldy gigs and chaise-carts reappear; and with them come spring-vans and waggons, and an army of porters with knots.
He knew that the man had been sent out to round up all the means of transportation possible, and that his orders were to let none escape, whether the cars of the very rich, or the vans of business men.
Bumpus exclaimed, appalled by this never-ceasing string of ambulances and vans and lorries of every description that passed them by.
So Thad led the way into the midst of those grewsome sights, dodging several moving vans that were coming or going, their drivers shouting at the top of their voices, for even here the roar of the raging battle was strenuous.
Ambulances, vans and all manner of wheeled vehicles were moving this way and that, loading up with their human freight that was to be transported forthwith to the hospitals of Paris and beyond.
Thinking to get him in one of the vans that were loading, Thad had just turned and half-risen to his feet when he experienced a rude shock.
And those motor trucks and other moving vans that came from the front were never empty, Bumpus saw.
Some master mind back there in Paris, with accurate road maps to consult, was directing all these movements of laden vans and wagons.
You can see that only the vans from Paris keep on beyond this point with their loads of ammunition and supplies.
Some of the more excitable passengers aboard the rear vans acted as though almost ready to hurl themselves out of the open vehicles of transportation.
These brave women seemed ready to sacrifice their own lives in order to leave room in some of the vans for the wounded.
The procession of ambulances and vans filled with stricken humanity kept that determination fresh in his mind.
Vans were being hastily loaded and driven away in mad haste, as if the ruling passion in each and every heart just then was to get beyond range of those constantly falling shells.
What you saw in the windshield of the vans is a New York City Film Board permit.
As I watched the vans being loaded, slowly calming down, I kept thinking about him.
The carriages of the nobility and gentry were blocked up among railway goods-vans and Parcels Delivery carts.
Now that both the prison vans are rolling along the Quai, the interest of this story requires that I should add a few words about the Conciergerie, while they are making their way thither.
There in a manner at once simple, ingenious and effective, they will be sorted and returned, either into delivery vans at the street level or to the trains emptied and now reloading on the train level.
The cavalcade passed away; the vansand the wagons again usurped the thoroughfare.
Other big vans there were carrying fresh ammunition to the guns that were so noisily punctuating the morning atmosphere with their clamor.
Along the roads, and across the level fields were hurrying ambulances and vans of every description, each bearing its load of wounded picked up along the front.
I wandered through it till I came to a tall, high-pedestalled windmill on the outer verge, the vans of which were going briskly round.
In a yard of the tavern just across the river, the chimneys of several Gypsy vans were to be seen.
On the Lincolnshire side of the Trent quite a colony of Gypsy vans had drawn up on a turfy plateau, and their owners were now to be seen crossing the river by ferry-boat, their laughter floating to me over the water.
Didn’t I see three vans in this field last night as I was going along the high road?
Irish Song The Parliamentary Session had reached the stage that is ended by no power save that of grouse, and the streets were full of vans fantastically decorated with baths, chairs, bedsteads, and nursery gear.
The furniture had been hustled out through the front garden which was strewn with wisps of straw and rope ends and into the huge vans at the gate.
When all had been safely stowed the vans had set off noisily down the avenue: and from the window of the railway carriage, in which he had sat with his red-eyed mother, Stephen had seen them lumbering along the Merrion Road.
Oh, what bags and sacks and vans full of letters have been, and are being, thrown into the mail-train!
The engine and the tender jumped the vacant space of rail, and ran into the hedge, but the carriages toppled over, leaving only two of them on the line at the back, and the engine and luggage vansin front.
This theory is strongly advocated by Vans Kennedy, who adduces many and conclusive arguments in favor of his hypothesis.
After quoting numerous authors on this subject, Vans Kennedy comes to the conclusion, that from the Hellespont the Thracians gradually extended themselves to the shores of the Baltic, and thence to Scandinavia.
Illustration: SUEZ] After dinner we had some coffee, which we found very refreshing; and soon the vans were announced.
The fifth team of vans contained four grown-up people and two children, Hugh and Lucy.
Upon arrival on the outskirts I ordered the vans to pass on the outside of the town, and I would seek a camping-place up-stream.
Accordingly we started, and after a few miles we cut across country to the high road, while the vansslowly crawled along the uneven way until they reached the turning-point.
The two vans and the native cart were in a line--the bell-tent was quickly pitched for the servants, who now for the first time experienced the comfort of an arrangement I had made when in England.
Thus one by one the vans were tugged up the steep bank on the opposite side, and after a drag across ploughed fields for nearly a mile we halted on the edge of a cliff and camped exactly above the river.
I also engaged the necessary riding mules, as the vans were not intended for personal travelling, but merely for luggage and for a home at night.
The vanswith all my effects had left London by steamer direct for Cyprus, I therefore found them, upon my arrival from Egypt, in the charge of Mr. Z.
I determined to leave my two vans in charge of the head-man of Kuklia, as the drivers declared it would be impossible to proceed into the roadless Carpas with any wheeled conveyance heavier than the native two-wheeled cart.
In spite of a chilly wind, crowds of women and children surrounded our vans and sat for hours indulging their curiosity, and shivering in light clothes of home-made cotton-stuffs.
We had no sooner levelled an embankment, and with great difficulty dragged the vans across, than we encountered a new and similar obstruction.
Having watched the various teams, and conversed with the ploughmen by the medium of the cook Christo, who spoke English and was an intelligent interpreter, I ordered the vans to move on while I walked over the country with the dogs.
Having exhausted the sights of Famagousta, we started on the 22nd of March for Kuklia, twelve miles distant, where we had left our vans in charge of the headman during our absence in the Carpas country.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "vans" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
