waggoner's

I could see by the way he held his cudgel that he meant mischief if the course of events had rendered it necessary, but the blood on the waggoner's face showed he had been severely punished already.

From John O'Groats to Land's End Robert Naylor

The thoughts of her mind deafened her heart to it as completely as the thunder of a waggon had at the same time deafened the waggoner's ears while the bells uttered their message above him.

The Heavenly Twins Madame Sarah Grand

The truth is, he was investing the conduct of a waggoner's team with the nicety requisite to the control of a tandem of thoroughbreds.

Anthony Lyveden Dornford Yates 1922

To the imbecile the waggoner's courage appeared supernatural.

The Best British Short Stories of 1922 John Cournos 1915

THE JOLLY WAGGONER and above this the dim semblance of a man in gaiters and smock, bearing a whip in one hand while in the other he upheld a foaming beaker -- but never in nature did ale or beer ever so foam, froth, bubble and seethe as did this painted waggoner's painted beer.

Peregrine's Progress Jeffery Farnol 1915

The various colours significant of various degrees of vitality (white, yellow, crimson, vermilion, cinnabar): their degrees of brilliancy: their magnitudes revealed up to and including the 7th: their positions: the waggoner's star: Walsingham way: the chariot of David: the annular cinctures of Saturn: the condensation of spiral nebulae into suns: the interdependent gyrations of double suns: the independent synchronous discoveries of Galileo, Simon Marius, Piazzi, Le Verrier, Herschel,

Ulysses James Joyce 1911

For the gong similarly was sometimes substituted a set of bells that had once decked the collar of the leading horse in a waggoner's team somewhere in Flanders; in fact when

Queen Lucia 1903

He was dressed in a coarse waggoner's slop, which, however, was unable to conceal altogether the proportions of his noble and Herculean figure.

George Borrow The Man and His Books Edward Thomas 1897

The wife feeling the waggoner approach her, moved nearer her husband, both on account of the cold and the smallness of the bed, and, instead of a pillow, placed her head upon her husband's breast, whilst her backside rested on the waggoner's knees.

Cent nouvelles nouvelles L��on Leb��que 1896

Beyond a bend of the road a waggoner's leisurely wain plodded its way to

The Justice of the King Hamilton Drummond 1896