 | 1862 - 796 pagina’s
...employment, where speed, his duty, and sloth, his nature, kept him bewildered by their rival injunctions. Whenever the engine-driver stopped to pick a huckleberry,...train, self-braking, stopped also, and the engine took in fuel from the tall grass that grew between the sleepers. It was the sensation of sloth at its... | |
 | Theodore Winthrop - 1863 - 406 pagina’s
...employment, where speed, his duty, and sloth, his nature, kept him bewildered by their rival injunctions. Whenever the engine-driver stopped to pick a huckleberry,...train, self-braking, stopped also, and the engine took in fuel from the tall grass that grew between the sleepers. It was the sensation of sloth at its... | |
 | Theodore Winthrop - 1868 - 400 pagina’s
...employment, where speed, his duty, and sloth, his nature, kept him bewildered by their rival injunctions. Whenever the engine-driver stopped to pick a huckleberry,...train, self-braking, stopped also, and the engine took in fuel from the tall grass that grew between the sleepers. It was the sensation of sloth at its... | |
 | Charles Alden John Farrar - 1880 - 250 pagina’s
...and sloth, his nature, kept him bewildered by their rival injunctions. " Whenever the engine driver stopped to pick a huckleberry, the train, self-braking, stopped also, and the engine took in fuel from the tall grass that grew between the sleepers. It was the sensation of sloth at its... | |
 | Charles Alden John Farrar - 1884 - 252 pagina’s
...and sloth, his nature, kept him bewildered by their rival injunctions. "Whenever the engine driver stopped to pick a huckleberry, the train, self-braking, stopped also, and the engine took in fuel from the tall grass that grew between the sleepers. It was the sensation of sloth at its... | |
 | Marcia Elizabeth Edgerton Bailey - 1928 - 1324 pagina’s
...employment, where speed, his duty, and sloth, his nature, kept him bewildered by their rival injunctions. Whenever the engine-driver stopped to pick a huckleberry,...train, self-braking, stopped also, and the engine took in fuel from the tall grass that grew between the sleepers. It was the sensation of sloth at its... | |
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Creakingly the train followed him, pausing and starting and pausing again with groans of inertia. A very fat ox was this, protesting every moment against his employment, where speed, his duty, and sloth, his nature, kept him bewildered by their rival... 