joltings

Printing was done when he returned home to Washington, D.C. He traveled with his own portable darkroom inside a mule-driven wagon, and his chemicals (and patience) were severely tested by the dust, joltings and extreme temperature fluctuations.

Western Development Richard B. Woodward 2010

Printing was done when he returned home to Washington, D.C. He traveled with his own portable darkroom inside a mule-driven wagon, and his chemicals (and patience) were severely tested by the dust, joltings and extreme temperature fluctuations.

Western Development Richard B. Woodward 2010

Printing was done when he returned home to Washington, D.C. He traveled with his own portable darkroom inside a mule-driven wagon, and his chemicals (and patience) were severely tested by the dust, joltings and extreme temperature fluctuations.

Western Development Richard B. Woodward 2010

For there are no rocking-chairs in Triana, as there were none in our backwoods, and the little maids tilted to and fro on the fore legs and hind legs of their chairs and lulled their charges to sleep with seismic joltings.

Familiar Spanish Travels 2004

Therefore, I drew my traces tight, and set my whole strength to the business; and we slipped along at a merry pace, although with many joltings, which must have sent my darling out into the cold snowdrifts but for the short strong arm of Gwenny.

Lorna Doone Richard Doddridge 2004

Yet the joltings of the vehicle and the variety of objects which flitted past my eyes soon dissipated that feeling, and I became filled with nothing but the idea that the priest must have thought me the finest-spirited young man he had ever met, or ever would meet, in the whole of his life.

Youth 2003

From time to time, he pulled at the ears of the stag-hound, which sat on its haunches in the aisle, balancing its big bulk elastically against the erratic joltings of the car, and regarding its master with patient adoration in the reddened eyes.

Heart of the Blue Ridge Waldron Baily

Unfortunately, all our human freight, terror stricken and without advice, had crowded into one side of the car; and as this happened to be the side on which we invariably bumped, we experienced all the worst effects of the joltings.

Wonderful Balloon Ascents

From the respectable appearance of this town, we conceived ourselves in the high road to La Palud, and likely to be soon indemnified by dinner and rest, for the joltings of the day; but our driver, instead of taking the proper direction, lost himself in a series of inextricable cross roads, which terminated in a quagmire.

Itinerary of Provence and the Rhone Made During the Year 1819 John Hughes

On the way home, during all the joltings of the coach over rough roads

Marcia Schuyler Grace Livingston Hill Lutz