Here lies I no wonder I'se dead, For a broad wheeled Waggon went over my head On a Miser.
Here a lovely youth doth lie, Which by accident did die; His precious breath was forced to yield, For by a waggon he was killed!
At every street corner one saw a waggon decorated with a few Chinese lanterns and covered with portraits of the candidates.
One crowd exhausted, the waggondrove on, and gathered more listeners at another stand.
But I 'm damned if I grovel in the bottom of a waggon for any hobo in Baker City!
Anyways, they got the man into the Apache's waggon, and my house bein' the nighest to the waggon road and the mountain, they pulled up at my door and we all carries the fellow up to a room.
An old prospector had seen you, and by good luck he stopped us, and by better luck I was polite for once and listened to his chin-chin, and so we heard where you had got off thewaggon road.
You got Apache Kid on the hill there and you want the waggon to get him through the city for fear o' any of the boys tryin' to get a shot at him.
The sheriff signed to the cortege to stop, and by the time that we had descended to this party the waggon was turned about.
A waggon had stopped on the roadway, the teamster looking on, and him the sheriff immediately pressed into service.
Then, coming to the end of the place of smouldering stumps, we struck back as though to come out on the waggon road before its entering into Camp Kettle.
Mike gets him up on his pack-horse and comes along slow down through the mountain till he hits the waggon road from the Poorman.
We gathered from the remarks of the sheriff that these four men had been camped down-hill a little way for three days, out of sight of the waggon track, awaiting our coming.
And we struck west through the timber, back in the direction that Baker City lay, keeping in a line parallel to the waggon road.
Winnington caught a glimpse of her face--pale and excited--as she retreated from the front of the waggon in order to make room for her co-speaker.
The chief illumination came however from what seemed to be a large shallow waggon drawn up not far from the Crown.
We have got a capital waggon for you to speak from, and chosen the place where it is to stand.
And therefore in an humble way He gives the Dog the time o'th' Day; Talks mighty complaisant, and vents A Waggon Load of Compliments Upon his being in such a Case, His brawny Flank and jolly Face.
And therefore in a humble way He gives the Dog the time o' th' Day; Talks mighty complaisant, and vents A Waggon Load of Compliments Upon his being in such a Case, His brawny Flank and jolly Face.
She is now rolling along in the old carter Apel's waggon towards Schwabach and Sir Heinz Schorlin.
A waggon from Schwabach, which happened opportunely to be on its way to Siebenburg, had brought Biberli to Schweinau on its homeward trip, just before the magistrate and his wife reached the hospital.
They were simple; such articles of value as we could carry were packed into the waggon and the best of the cattle we drove with us.
He obeyed unwillingly enough and looking out between the curtains of the waggon tent I saw all that happened, though I could not hear the words that passed.
But we could not start at once because two of the Zulus were still not well enough to travel and there were many preparations to be made about the loads, and so forth, since the waggon must be left behind.
Come to sit on the waggon with me and tell me what guns and ammunition you have got, for according to Hans those savages don't seem to have touched anything, except a few blankets and a herd of goats.
Then I went to the waggon and poured out a stiff tot of spirits into which I put an amazing doze of bromide from a little medicine chest I always carry with me, and thirty drops of chlorodyne on the top of it.
At last we came so near to the house that I halted the waggon and descended from the driving-box in order to investigate.
Here's a pretty kettle of fish, thought I to myself as I strolled back to the waggon to see how things were going on there, and how to get the live fish out of the kettle before they boil or spoil is more than I know.
Here we found the waggon and oxen quite safe and were welcomed rapturously by my Zulu driver and the voorlooper, who had made up their minds that we were dead and were thinking of trekking homewards.
Our guides led me, with Hans sneaking after me like a dejected and low-bred dog (for the waggon had stopped outside the gate), across the kraal to where the heralds shouted and the big man sat yawning.
Hearing the shot Hans came running from the waggon to see what was the matter.
Then came the waggon with Captain Robertson and myself seated on the driving-box, and lastly Umslopogaas and his Zulus, except the two who had been left behind.
Up to this time we had seen no one, although it might have been presumed that a waggon trekking towards the house was a sufficiently unusual sight to have attracted attention.
At that moment Hans arrived upon the scene, followed at a discreet distance by the waggon boys, and took in the situation at a glance.
They are convinced that a waggon road could be made across Laurell Hill, not so bad as that from Fort Littleton to this place, & that there is water and grass all the way, but little forage between the two mountains.
Considering that it was impossible to cut a waggon road on this slope without immense labour, they searched along the mountain for another pass, and found about two miles to the North a gap of which no one was aware.
Waggon Road from Carlisle West through the Mountains but only a Horse Path, by which the Indian Traders used to carry their Goods and Skins to and from the Ohio while that Trade remained open.
After we had been in this waggon two days, one of the railway-men told us that there had come a German steamer which would take us to Naples.
Opposite us was a waggon full of soldiers and sailors.
There seemed to be a waggon upset, persons bound, and a buzz of men, like wasps around a honeycomb preying on it.
The great stag-hounds evidently despised him, and the curs of the waggon hated him, and snarled whenever he came near them, but the Prioress respected him, and could well believe that the hermit King had loved him.
About three o'clock on the afternoon of Sunday the 17th July I left the house of Mr. Connelly, and journeyed back to Abercrombie in the stage waggon from St. Cloud.
Seated on the floor of a waggon in the construction train, in the midst of navvies of all countries and ages, I reached the end of the track while the morning sun was yet low in the east.
From Mequatling's Nek the women and children were conveyed to the farm of the late General Ferreira, on a trolley waggon loaded with seed-oats.
In the middle of July 1901 a burgher on the top of Venter's Kroon saw an English patrol set fire to a waggon along the Vaal River.
A Colonial, however, took pity on her, and spread a buck sail over the waggon under which the women and children had sought shelter from the rain.
The burgher found her about twenty yards from the waggon, with her hands before her eyes, and it would appear that she had crawled so far after the waggon had been set on fire.
To spare my horses I had placed my little all on the ammunition waggon which remained behind, and now I had nothing more than what I had on and what was in my saddle-bag.
There was dreadful shouting and yelling before the Kaffirs could convince the oxen that they had to get the waggon out by hook or by crook.
This famous hill, named Waggon Hill by the English, lies about three miles south of Ladysmith, between the residence of Mr. Willem Bester and the town.
I asked of myself; for we were on the eve of attacking Platrand (Waggon Hill).
When the English had ridden off he went to the burning waggon and there found the sister of Mr. H.
They could travel along the waggon road only; and this was now impossible because of the proximity of the enemy.
We had thus fortunately got across the line with all our belongings--all except one or two waggons; among these an ammunition waggon remained behind.
She was carried to a waggon on a chair, and conveyed to Winburg.
When a waggon got stuck the delay was even longer.
The next waggon then reached the ford, and the same thing was done over again.
This has been curiously illustrated of late in the town of Waggon Wheel.
That settled the matter, and three marriages took place with a great flourish of trumpets at Waggon Wheel.
From the extremity of Waggon Hill, I watched the great cloud of dust and smoke which rose from the distant plain as each shell burst.
A few days ago his family drove off in a waggon for the Free State.
Devon post on Helpmakaar road; half the Liverpools to King's Post, and the Rifle Brigade to Waggon Hill.
At night we placed two howitzers on a nek in Waggon Hill, where the 60th have a post south-west of the town.
I rode south-west, over Range Post and a bit of the Long Valley to Waggon Hill, our nearest point to the relief column and the English mail.
Three or four of these passes are crossed by waggon roads, but Van Reenen's has the only railway.
When I reached Waggon Hill about nine this morning the last of the wounded were being brought down.
The Boers placed it yesterday on the hill beyond Waggon Hill, where the 60th hold our extreme post towards the west.
I found myself with the Irish Fusiliers at Range Post, where the road crosses to the foot of Waggon Hill.
The tents of another large camp showed among the bushes on Lombard's Nek, where the Helpmakaar road passes between Lombard's Kop and Bulwan, and many waggon laagers were in sight beyond.
Passing to the further edge where the Boers crept up I saw a Boer ambulance and an ox-waggon waiting.
Lady Anne" answered, for she has not yet been removed to her destined station on Waggon Hill.
All spoke of the good treatment the Boers had shown them on the journey, even when the waggon had outspanned for the night close to the Boer camp.
They fired by signal over the end of Waggon Hill in front of them, and it was difficult to judge their effect.
The attack and the defence were equally gallant, as atWaggon Hill.
Each waggon halted where it stood at sunset, so that there was no common camp, but all along the road a line of bivouacs.
They came by-and-by and horsed our waggon and turned us round, and presently we took our place in the slow, creaking procession, and began to move up the pass.
When the waggon was full they drove us, jolting and wailing, to an appointed place, and took out some, leaving only enough to cover the floor thickly.
But the blackguard crowd which surrounded the doorway was so great that it hid everything; and I had to curb my impatience until in turn my waggon stopped in the midst of them.
When our cavalry at last arrived on the scene, there were full three hundred men in the waggon work, and these the flower of the enemy.
I had seen nothing of the Waldgrave or the waggon which carried him for nearly two days, but as we passed through the gates I caught sight of the latter moving slowly on, a little way in front of us.
For my part, the sights I saw from the waggon seemed more depressing.
When I saw the waggon which preceded me halt before this melancholy place, I looked out between hope and fear--fearing some act of treachery, hoping to see the Waldgrave.
A waggon is going into town to-morrow to fetch a sulky and a gang- plough, and some potatoes for seeding; and we hope a few also of the latter for eating, as hitherto our only vegetables have been white beans and rice.
We hired a democrat, a light waggon with two seats, and started during the afternoon in the rain, hoping it might clear which it eventually did when we were about a third of our way.
The jockeys or riders were told forthwith that a waggon was going into town the following morning, and that their services would be dispensed with in future.
He and the men from the tent had to go in and bring out a waggon and the new "Cortland waggon" (my present), and they had to take in the broken buggy to be mended.
I had just come into view of the first chimneys of Caughnawaga, and was riding by an empty waggondriven by an old man, when, very far away, I heard a gun-shot.
A terrible anxiety seized me, and I wondered how far they had got on the way to Mayfield, with cattle and sheep to drive ahead of a loaded waggon and one horse.
I drew bridle sharply and asked the man in the waggonif he also had heard it; but his waggon rattled and he had not.
So when our waggon drove up in the darkness outside, he came and took leave of us all very kindly, saying he hoped that Penelope would be safe in Johnstown, and that the raiders would soon be driven out of the Sacandaga.
Scarce had we come near enough to observe this road plainly, and the crushed ferns and swale grasses in the new waggon ruts, when we heard horses coming at a great distance.
The contrast, of course, between horse and boat was much greater than between waggon and boat.
Moreover, it was the pleasantest mode of journeying, especially if the boat was towed; for travelling in a sixteenth-century waggon produced something like sea-sickness in those unaccustomed to it.
Royale de Belgique), showing also the long covered waggon which was practically the only land conveyance in use, apart from litters.
The chief centre for carrier-arrangements was Augsburg; thence to Venice and back a waggon went each week; between Augsburg and Nuremberg daily.
It was the only one which wheeled traffic could pass, though even there the waggon had to be kept from falling off the road "by force of men's shoulders," according to Moryson.
Sir Henry Wotton, to take one example out of many, once wanted to go by waggon from Brunswick to Frankfort, about one hundred and fifty miles; had he started on the spot he would have started alone and paid at the rate of 4s.
Here again the traveller by waggon went more cheaply than the horseman.
We came down by waggon with an escort of men, and it was awfully jolly and amusing at first," said Judy.
The transport-waggon people promised to have my trunks in Salisbury in four weeks' time, and I thought if I stayed about six weeks that would give me some fresh gowns to wear here, and an outfit to return in.
We've been trekking all night, and the waggon is not a very springy one.
She came up here to be married, bringing her wedding-gown and a few things with her in the coach, while her trousseau and the other things for the house were sent by waggon in three enormous cases.
With the first glint of dawn we saddled up and rode down to the King's waggon again, and Major Wilson called in a loud voice to Lobengula to come out and surrender.
I never knew anything like a waggon journey to turn one's complexion to leather!
The waggoner, seeing the state of affairs, promptly drew his horses and waggon close up to the side of the road in time for the runaways to pass them safely, but the wheels were within an inch of coming into collision.
A large waggon now appeared in sight, and they rapidly came up with it.
Eleanor, as on the waggon coming round she discovered her pony hitched to the back of it.
The waggonpresently came in sight; a huge covered wain which had need to move slowly.
I had time to gallop over there and meet the waggon again; it went so slowly.
They loaded this stage-waggon with the princess's trunks.
The stage-waggon and the two horses harnessed thereto were confiscated by Maubreuil.
My waggon load of furniture was waiting at the door; it took but an hour to settle my household arrangements, and at the end of that time all was finished.
Presently, as she walked on wearily, she heard the rumbling of heavy wheels behind her; a covered waggon was coming, creeping slowly along with a slouching driver cracking his whip beside the horses.
Adam remembered well the night of shame and anguish when he first saw his father quite wild and foolish, shouting a song out fitfully among his drunken companions at the "Waggon Overthrown.
As the waggon approached her, the driver had fallen behind, but there was something in the front of the big vehicle which encouraged her.
You may's well try to turn a waggon in a narrow lane.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "waggon" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
