 Suppose, now, one of these engines to be going along a railroad at the rate of nine or ten miles an hour, and that a cow were to stray upon the line and get in the way of the engine ; would not that, think you, be a very awkward circumstance ? "  Tait's Edinburgh magazine - Page 4591857Full view - About this book
 | Robert Cochrane (miscellaneous writer) - 1878 - 570 pages
...fit for a lunatic asylum. The following case was put before Stephenson : " Suppose, now, one of those engines to be going along a railroad at the rate of...get in the way of the engine, would not that, think you, be a very awkward circumstance?" "Yes," replied the witness, with a twinkle in his eye, "very... | |
 | Robert Henry Thurston - Steam-engines - 1878 - 518 pages
...that Stephenson, when asked, " Suppose, now, one of your engines to be going at the rate of 9 or 10 miles an hour, and that a cow were to stray upon the...line and get in the way of the engine, would not that be a very awkward circumstance ? " replied, " Yes, very awkward— -for the coo ! " And when asked... | |
 | Robert Henry Thurston - Steam-engines - 1878 - 524 pages
...Congreve's ricochet-rockets, as trust themselves to the mercy of such a machine going at such a rate.'' cow were to stray upon the line and get in the way of the - .. engine, would not that be a very awkward circumstance ? " \ replied, " Yes, very awkward— /or the coo ! " And when asked... | |
 | John Guard - 1879 - 476 pages
...of twelve miles an hour ! A member of the committee, eager to put a question, said with dignity, ' Suppose now, one of these engines to be going along...get in the way of the engine, would not that, think you, be a very awkward circumstance?' 'Yes,' replied Stephenson, with a twinkle in his eye, '.very... | |
 | Samuel Smiles - Engineers - 1879 - 464 pages
...the witness a little CHAP. IX. AWKWARD "FOR THE COO." 165 further. He put the following case : — " Suppose, now, one of these engines to be going along a railroad at the rate of 9 or 10 miles an hour, and that a cow were to stray upon the line and get in the way of the engine... | |
 | Robert Cochrane (miscellaneous writer.) - 1879 - 254 pages
...fit for a lunatic asylum. The following case was put before Stephenson : " Suppose, now, one of those engines to be going along a railroad at the rate of nine or ten miles an-hour, and that a cow were to stray upon the line and get in the way of the engine, would not that,... | |
 | 1871 - 612 pages
...occasionally received a Roland for an Oliver. One question was this — "Suppose, now, one of those engines to be going along a railroad at the rate of...were to stray upon the line and get in the way of an engine — would not that, think you, be a very awkward circumstance?" "Yes," replied the witness,... | |
 | Charles Dickens - English literature - 1881 - 642 pages
...best known of all — namely, that afforded by his answer to the hypothetical case thus put to him : " Suppose, now, one of these engines to be going along...get in the way of the engine ; would not that, think you, be a very awkward circumstance 1 " Stephenson's reply was, in the humour of it, not unworthy of... | |
 | Helen Cross Knight - 1881 - 120 pages
...kingdom. The farmers there never complain." " Well," asked one of them, " suppose, now, one of those engines to be going along a railroad at the rate of...get in the way of the engine ; would not that, think you, be a very awkward circumstance ? " " Yes," answered Stephenson, with a droll twinkle in his eye,... | |
 | Henry James Nicoll - Great Britain - 1881 - 506 pages
...examination before the Committee that Stephenson, when asked, ' Suppose, now, one of your engines to be going at the rate of nine or ten miles an hour, and that...line and get in the way of the engine, would not that be a very awkward circumstance ?' replied, ' Yes, very awkward — for the coo.' In the course of the... | |
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