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  • From Cologne we continued on by rail up the valley of the Rhine to Bingebruck, near Bingen, and thence across through Saarbrucken to Remilly, where we left the railway and rode in a hay-wagon to Pont-a-Mousson, arriving there August 17, late in the afternoon.

    She Makes Her Mouth Small & Round & Other Stories 2010

  • "News about the wild animals escaping from the circus," went on the boy on the hay-wagon.

    The Bobbsey Twins at Meadow Brook Laura Lee Hope

  • "Well, I could do that, too," replied the boy On the hay-wagon.

    The Bobbsey Twins at Meadow Brook Laura Lee Hope

  • She and Evaline raced all over the place, climbing trees and fences, playing in the barn or down in the wood, paddling in the little brook, riding on the hay-wagon, and going with the boy to bring home the cows.

    A Missionary Twig Emma L. Burnett

  • One day, about a week after this conversation, Arnod missed his footing and fell from the top of his loaded hay-wagon.

    Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 378, April, 1847 Various

  • "I won't have you trailing after me on a hay-wagon!" exclaimed Diane in honest indignation.

    Diane of the Green Van Leona Dalrymple

  • For a few seconds Bert and Harry, his cousin, stared at the boy on the hay-wagon.

    The Bobbsey Twins at Meadow Brook Laura Lee Hope

  • "It annoys me exceedingly," she went on finally, finding his laughing glance much too bland and friendly to harbor guile, "to have you trailing after me in a hay-wagon."

    Diane of the Green Van Leona Dalrymple

  • Well, as we go sauntering along the sunny side of Grub Street, meditating an essay on the Mustache in Literature (we have shaved off our own since that man Murray Hill referred to it in the public prints as "a young hay-wagon"), we are wondering whether any of the writing men are keeping the kind of diary we should like our son to read, say in

    Mince Pie Christopher Morley 1923

  • Only an old hay-wagon, after all; only a team of shabby oxen, such as a thousand lumber-camps in California might supply; only a score or more of the ill-nourished, untrained children of the very poor; but what an enchantment of love and hope and summer-time had been flung over them all!

    The Rich Mrs. Burgoyne Kathleen Thompson Norris 1923

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