Search Details

Word: wagoneer (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

That night Colney was lynched; and Elsie and I, seated on the roof of a prairie-wagon, were borne in triumphal procession through the town...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A BODIE ADVENTURE. | 1/13/1883 | See Source »

...Sophomore clan will celebrate tomorrow night, "having," as the invitation reads, "vanquished in deadly combat their treacherous Legendre." The triumphal procession will start from the Worth monument at 10 P.M., the students wearing white gowns and carrying torches. Preceding the procession will be a band of music, while a wagon, carrying an effigy of the "vanquished foe" will bring up the rear. Ambrose D. Henry will be the imperator of the evening; a poem will be read by the haruspex, J. Foster Jenkins, Jr., and J. H. Ward, Jr., the carnifex, will deliver the oration. These exercises will be held...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 6/7/1882 | See Source »

Twenty-four wagon-loads of furniture and other articles from the White House were sold at auction yesterday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES. | 4/15/1882 | See Source »

...knowledge in other ways. And he became expert in shuffling bits of pasteboard, covered with red and black spots; and he could tell the difference between the nut-brown ale of Vanity Fair and the red wine of Macon; and he no longer journeyed afoot, but in the wagon of one Shark. And Lighthead struggled often up the hill Difficulty, bristling with unfavorable conditions, but he never reached its summit; for, ere he had passed four years with his chosen band of Vanity Fair, the rulers of that mart, who call themselves wise men, chased him away. And Lighthead left...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PILGRIM'S PROGRESS. | 2/11/1881 | See Source »

...number of tickets for admission to the Yard, and of invitations to the President's Reception, and to Memorial Hall will be furnished to all the graduates of the year for themselves and friends, and no gentleman will be admitted to either of these places without a ticket. No wagon or carriage of any description will be admitted to the College Yard after 5 o'clock...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PROGRAMME FOR CLASS DAY. | 6/15/1877 | See Source »

Previous | 503 | 504 | 505 | 506 | 507 | 508 | 509 | 510 | 511 | 512 | 513 | 514 | Next