Passenger

Examples

• In May, 1915, they sank the great passenger liner, the _Lusitania_, without any warning, drowning a number of American citizens. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Finally I put a rope to my trunk, which was about the size of a carpenter's chest, and started to pull this from the baggage-car to the passenger-car. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• In 1854 there were 111 millions of passengers conveyed on railways, each passenger travelling an average of 12 miles. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• We will take a passenger from another famous ship, and call him Ulysses, the craftiest of the Greeks. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• The passenger would then start to himself, and lower the window, to get the reality of mist and rain on his cheek. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• Can you identify him as your fellow-passenger on board the packet, or speak to his conversation with your daughter? Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• EIGHT-WHEEL PASSENGER EXPRESS LOCOMOTIVE, 1863. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• He used to add, that he believed he was the only living person who had ever been taken as a passenger on one of these excursions. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• The figures of a horse and rider came slowly through the eddying mist, and came to the side of the mail, where the passenger stood. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• Orville Wright made a flight with a passenger on board, and a little later Wilbur flew eight miles, at a rate of forty-five miles an hour. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• I bear no malice, no ill-will toward any individual that was connected with it, either as passenger or officer. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• Rives, a passenger, who had been the United States Minister to France. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• He was the only passenger who came on board in the dead of the night? Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• We had the whole passenger list for company, but their room would have been preferable, for there was no light, there were no windows, no ventilation. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• Foulois with him as passenger. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• In 1854 there were 111 millions of passengers conveyed on railways, each passenger travelling an average of 12 miles. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• The moving of passengers and freight seems to be directly related to the progress of civilization, and the factor whose influence has been most felt in this field is the steam locomotive. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• In 1801 he built his first steam carriage, adapted to carry seven or eight passengers, which was said to have gone off like a bird, but broke down, and was taken to the home of Capt. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• Before she had gone a quarter of a mile both passengers and observers on the shore were satisfied that the steamboat was a thoroughly practicable vessel. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• Supposing him wrapped up as those two passengers were, is there anything in his bulk and stature to render it unlikely that he was one of them? Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• Two other passengers, besides the one, were plodding up the hill by the side of the mail. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• The grey pavement had been cleaned and scraped, but was still dangerously slippery, so that there were fewer passengers than usual. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• After the exposition closed the outfit was taken during the same year to the exposition at Louisville, Kentucky, where it was also successful, carrying a large number of passengers. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• The train was made up of two carriages, filled with about forty passengers, and seven wagons loaded with stores. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• There is no railway out of London whereon the carriages run so smoothly, and on which the passengers are so conveniently accommodated, as on the Great Western. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• Not of those odious men and women, said she: such people should be steerage passengers. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• On Christmas eve of 1801, Trevithick made the initial trip with the first successful steam road locomotive through the streets of Camborne in Cornwall, carrying passengers. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• The boat, crew and passengers were brought ashore to me. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• The passengers do not turn out at unseasonable hours, as they used to, to get the earliest possible glimpse of strange foreign cities. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• We passed through several towns, and in one, a very large one, the coach stopped; the horses were taken out, and the passengers alighted to dine. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.

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