 ... up and down the car, and in and out of it, as his fancy dictates ; leans against the door with his hands in his pockets and stares at you, if you chance to be a stranger ; or enters into conversation with the passengers about him. A great many newspapers...  The Quarterly Review - Page 370edited by - 1926Full view - About this book
 | Ronald J. Zboray - 1993 - 349 pages
...to him the incommunicative and uncouth rail passenger: If you are an Englishman, he expects that the railroad is pretty much like an English railroad....You enumerate the heads of difference one by one. . . . Then he guesses that you don't travel faster in England; and on your replying that you do says... | |
 | Kathy Sammis - 1997 - 132 pages
...fluttering between yourself and any other object you may happen to look at, like the ghost of smoke. . . . Everybody talks to you, or to anybody else who hits his fancy. . . .Wherever you are going, you invariably leam that you can't get there without immense difficulty... | |
 | C. Dallett Hemphill - 1999 - 326 pages
...for the practice unnerved Charles Dickens on his American tour. He observed of a railroad ride that "Everybody talks to you, or to anybody else who hits his fancy" (he attributed this to American republicanism, however, and claimed not to resent it). One had only... | |
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