Word: caravans
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...These men discussed their insurance policies and "hoped they would shoot us and make it snappy." They tried to faint to escape the pains in their arms, but could not manage it. After much grunting and pipe-smoking the Mongols changed their minds, fed their captives tea, sent the caravan ahead under a guard...
...wildernesses. Travelers said that no fleet of Dodge, or any other, cars could go where even camels limp. China teemed with soldiers and brigands. Drought and sand storms were growing yearly worse. . . . But the Dodges pulled again. Urga was reached and passed again and again. Heady preparations, an invaluable caravan chief and keen diplomacy made life not merely possible but enjoyable. Good humor, good sportsmanship and firm purpose seem to have been the prime characteristics of Mr. Andrews' cosmopolitan score of associates, and as their historian, Mr. Andrews is as lively as he is conscientious. He finds room...
Arrow-swift, a darting racing car swept over the Etruscan Appennines last week, scaled with a virile roar the heights of Monte Titano, swept into the Borgo of San Marino, oldest* and smallest† republic in the world. Behind, far behind, panted a lumbering caravan of limousines. Before they had scaled the nearly perpendicular republic, Signor Mussolini had leaped from his racer, received the respectful welcome of the two Capitani Reggenii (Regents) of San Marino. As the swaying limousines drew up, there clambered out, Signora Mussolini (Rachele Guidi), their daughter Edda, their sons Bruno and Vittorio. Round about stood...
...Kent, Devonshire, Surrey, Berkshire or Buckinghamshire from late March on, after wintering on the Continent or in London. One pater familias or headman, Tombino, is typical of his fellows. Tombino raises a strain of horses that command top prices at any county fair in the kingdom. He moves his caravan from one fair to the next, establishing coconut-shies at each as a sideline. His children, numbering six† are sent, immediately upon arrival at a new location, to the nearest village school, presentably dressed and bearing testimonials to their character and ability from their last teacher. Tombino, large...
Starting at sea level, the caravan slowly plodded through jungles of rich verdure and through luxuriant forests until the trees disappeared and they passed over glacial passes onto the flat barren plain of Tibet...