The New York Coach-maker's Magazine, Volume 1E.M. Stratton, 1859 - Carriage and wagon making |
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... mark their price on the card , and if used we will send the money promptly ; if not , return the draft . None but Voluntary Contributors can compete for the Premiums . Paid Con- tributors have no further claims on us than the price set ...
... mark their price on the card , and if used we will send the money promptly ; if not , return the draft . None but Voluntary Contributors can compete for the Premiums . Paid Con- tributors have no further claims on us than the price set ...
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... mark , but no letters came . They made key - hole observations , till one day an unlucky sneeze close to the lock brought the stranger directly to the door , before the house - maid and stable - boy quite managed to tumble down the ...
... mark , but no letters came . They made key - hole observations , till one day an unlucky sneeze close to the lock brought the stranger directly to the door , before the house - maid and stable - boy quite managed to tumble down the ...
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... mark thy deep decay , Now tell the story of thy fallen fane ! " The great length to which this article has already ex- tended obliges us to defer any general observations upon the subject treated of , which would seem to be called for ...
... mark thy deep decay , Now tell the story of thy fallen fane ! " The great length to which this article has already ex- tended obliges us to defer any general observations upon the subject treated of , which would seem to be called for ...
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... mark . It is necessary to thin your color more than when using bristles , but it will , nev- ertheless , cover better , owing to the softness of the hair . Perhaps some of you will ask how " color - and - varnish ” can be put on with a ...
... mark . It is necessary to thin your color more than when using bristles , but it will , nev- ertheless , cover better , owing to the softness of the hair . Perhaps some of you will ask how " color - and - varnish ” can be put on with a ...
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... mark an era the pre- sent generation will never live to see . But that " dovetail inside the open space " is only ... marks correctly the time and the sums to be paid opposite , is not yet ready to be placed in the carriages ; but , in ...
... mark an era the pre- sent generation will never live to see . But that " dovetail inside the open space " is only ... marks correctly the time and the sums to be paid opposite , is not yet ready to be placed in the carriages ; but , in ...
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Page 147 - So the Deacon inquired of the village folk Where he could find the strongest oak, That couldn't be split nor bent nor broke, That was for spokes and floor and sills; He sent for lancewood to make the thills; The crossbars were ash, from the straightest trees, The panels of white-wood, that cuts like cheese, But lasts like iron for things like these; The hubs of logs from the 'Settler's ellum...
Page 88 - This guest of summer, The temple-haunting martlet, does approve By his loved mansionry that the heaven's breath Smells wooingly here : no jutty, frieze, Buttress, nor coign of vantage, but this bird Hath made his pendent bed and procreant cradle : Where they most breed and haunt, I have observed The air is delicate.
Page 175 - All this is true, if time stood still; which contrariwise moveth so round, that a froward retention of custom is as turbulent a thing as an innovation; and they that reverence too much old times, are but a scorn to the new.
Page 147 - Now in building of chaises, I tell you what, There is always somewhere a weakest spot, — In hub, tire, felloe, in spring or thill, In panel, or crossbar, or floor, or sill, In screw, bolt, thoroughbrace, — lurking still, Find it somewhere you must and will, — Above or below, or within or without, — And that's the reason, beyond a doubt, A chaise breaks down, but doesn't wear out. But the Deacon swore (as Deacons do, With an "I dew vum...
Page 183 - Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string. Accept the place the divine providence has found for you, the society of your contemporaries, the connection of events.
Page 147 - EIGHTEEN HUNDRED ; — it came and found The Deacon's masterpiece strong and sound. Eighteen hundred increased by ten ; — 'Hahnsum kerridge' they called it then. Eighteen hundred and twenty came: — Running as usual ; much the same. Thirty and forty at last arrive, And then come fifty, and FIFTY-FIVE. Little of all we value here Wakes on the morn of its hundredth year Without both feeling and looking queer.
Page 147 - Drawn by a rat-tailed, ewe-necked bay. " Huddup! " said the parson. — Off went they. The parson was working his Sunday's text, — Had got to fifthly, and stopped perplexed At what the — Moses — was coming next. All at once the horse stood still, Close by the meet'n'-house on the hill.
Page 147 - I tell yeou") He would build one shay to beat the taown 'N' the keounty, 'n' all the kentry raoun'; It should be so built that it couldn' break daown: — "Fur," said the Deacon, "'t's mighty plain Thut the weakes' place mus' Stan' the strain; 'N' the way t' fix it, uz I maintain, Is only jest T' make that place uz strong uz the rest.
Page 147 - That there wasn'ta chance for one to start, For the wheels were just as strong as the thills, And the floor was just as strong as the sills And the panels just as strong as the floor, And the whipple-tree neither less nor more, And the back-crossbar as strong as the fore.
Page 95 - The village smithy stands; The smith, a mighty man is he, With large and sinewy hands; And the muscles of his brawny arms Are strong as iron bands. His hair is crisp, and black, and long, His face is like the tan; His brow is wet with honest sweat, He earns whate'er he can, And looks the whole world in the face, For he owes not any man.