 Suppose, now, one of these engines to be going along a railroad at the rate of nine or ten miles an hour, and that a cow were to stray upon the line and get in the way of the engine ; would not that, think you, be a very awkward circumstance ? "  Tait's Edinburgh magazine - Page 4591857Full view - About this book
 | Robert Cochrane (miscellaneous writer) - 1878 - 570 pages
...fit for a lunatic asylum. The following case was put before Stephenson : " Suppose, now, one of those engines to be going along a railroad at the rate of...get in the way of the engine, would not that, think you, be a very awkward circumstance?" "Yes," replied the witness, with a twinkle in his eye, "very... | |
 | Robert Henry Thurston - 1878 - 518 pages
...that Stephenson, when asked, " Suppose, now, one of your engines to be going at the rate of 9 or 10 miles an hour, and that a cow were to stray upon the...line and get in the way of the engine, would not that be a very awkward circumstance ? " replied, " Yes, very awkward— -for the coo ! " And when asked... | |
 | Robert Henry Thurston - 1878 - 524 pages
...Congreve's ricochet-rockets, as trust themselves to the mercy of such a machine going at such a rate.'' cow were to stray upon the line and get in the way of the - .. engine, would not that be a very awkward circumstance ? " \ replied, " Yes, very awkward— /or the coo ! " And when asked... | |
 | John Guard - 1879 - 476 pages
...of twelve miles an hour ! A member of the committee, eager to put a question, said with dignity, ' Suppose now, one of these engines to be going along...get in the way of the engine, would not that, think you, be a very awkward circumstance?' 'Yes,' replied Stephenson, with a twinkle in his eye, '.very... | |
 | Samuel Smiles - 1879 - 464 pages
...the witness a little CHAP. IX. AWKWARD "FOR THE COO." 165 further. He put the following case : — " Suppose, now, one of these engines to be going along a railroad at the rate of 9 or 10 miles an hour, and that a cow were to stray upon the line and get in the way of the engine... | |
 | Robert Cochrane (miscellaneous writer.) - 1879 - 254 pages
...fit for a lunatic asylum. The following case was put before Stephenson : " Suppose, now, one of those engines to be going along a railroad at the rate of nine or ten miles an-hour, and that a cow were to stray upon the line and get in the way of the engine, would not that,... | |
 | 1871 - 612 pages
...occasionally received a Roland for an Oliver. One question was this — "Suppose, now, one of those engines to be going along a railroad at the rate of...were to stray upon the line and get in the way of an engine — would not that, think you, be a very awkward circumstance?" "Yes," replied the witness,... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1881 - 642 pages
...best known of all — namely, that afforded by his answer to the hypothetical case thus put to him : " Suppose, now, one of these engines to be going along...get in the way of the engine ; would not that, think you, be a very awkward circumstance 1 " Stephenson's reply was, in the humour of it, not unworthy of... | |
 | Helen Cross Knight - 1881 - 120 pages
...kingdom. The farmers there never complain." " Well," asked one of them, " suppose, now, one of those engines to be going along a railroad at the rate of...get in the way of the engine ; would not that, think you, be a very awkward circumstance ? " " Yes," answered Stephenson, with a droll twinkle in his eye,... | |
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