... flags flying in the air, has a most peculiar effect; while the sheds, with the monster wheels arching through the roofs, look like the paddle-boxes of huge steamers. Along the quay, you see now men with their faces blue with indigo, and now... London labour and the London poor - Page 294by Henry Mayhew - 1861Full view - About this book
| Peter Cunningham - 1851 - 382 pages
...effect; while the Kheds, with the monster wheels arching through the roofs, look like the piuldle-boxes of huge steamers. Along the quay, you see now men...flaxen-haired sailors, chattering German ; and next ablack sailor, with a cotton handkerchief twisted turban-like around his head. Presently a blue-smocked... | |
| Peter Cunningham - 1851 - 432 pages
...vomiting clouds of black smoke, and the manycoloured flags flying in the air, has a most peculiar effect; while the sheds, with the monster wheels arching through...long brasstipped rule dripping with spirit from the eask they have been probing; then will come a group of flaxen-haired sailors, chattering German ; and... | |
| Peter Cunningham - 1851 - 390 pages
...vomiting clonds of black smoke, and the manycoloured flags flying in the air, has a most peculiar effect; while the sheds, with the monster wheels arching through...now men with their faces blue with indigo, and now gaugers with their long brasstipped rule dripping with spirit from the cask they have been probing... | |
| Edward Litt L. Blanchard - Great Exhibition - 1851 - 324 pages
...of black smoke, and the many-coloured flags flying in the air, has a most peculiar effect ; whilst the sheds with the monster wheels arching through...steamers. Along the quay you see, now men with their fdces blue with indigo, and now gauyers with their long brass-tipped rule dripping with spirit from... | |
| Samuel Prout Newcombe - 1851 - 398 pages
...chimneys vomiting clouds of smoke, and many-coloured flags flying in the air, has a most peculiar effect: the sheds with the monster wheels arching through...like the paddleboxes of huge steamers. " ' Along the 7«wy you see, now men with their faces blue with indigo, and now gaugers with their long brass-tipped... | |
| 1851 - 492 pages
...; while the sheds, with their monster wheels, arching through the roofs, look like the paddle boxes of huge steamers. Along the quay, you see now, men with their faces blue with indigo, and now gaugers, with their long brass-tipped rule, dripping with spirit, from the cask they have been probing... | |
| John Murray (Firm), Peter Cunningham - London (England) - 1853 - 386 pages
...vomiting clouds of black smoke, and the manycoloured flags flying in the air, has a most peculiar effect; while the sheds, with the monster wheels arching through...now men with their faces blue with indigo, and now gaugers with their long brasstipped rule dripping with spirit from the cask they have been probing;... | |
| Peter Cunningham - London (England) - 1856 - 382 pages
...vomiting clouds of black smoke, and the manycoloured flags flying in the air, has a most peculiar effect; while the sheds, with the monster wheels arching through...now men with their faces blue with indigo, and now gaugers with their long brasstins at hcr feet, telling you she is an emigrant preparing for her voyage.... | |
| Thomas Milner - 1857 - 332 pages
...vomiting clouds of black smoke, and the manycoloured flags flying in the air, has a most peculiar effect ; while the sheds, with the monster wheels arching through...gangers, with their long brass-tipped rule dripping with spirits from the cask they have been probing ; then will come a group of flaxen-haired sailors, chattering... | |
| Edward Litt L. Blanchard - 1860 - 336 pages
...clouds of black smoke, and the many-coloured flags flying in the air, has a most peculiar effect; whilst the sheds with the monster wheels arching through...now men with their faces blue with indigo, and now gaugers with their long brass-tipped rule dripping with spirit from the cask they have been probing... | |
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