Passengers

Examples

• 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.
• Siemens had in operation a road about one thousand six hundred feet in length, on which it is estimated ninety-five thousand passengers were conveyed in seven weeks. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• The locomotive weighed three tons, was twelve feet long, five feet wide, and made a speed of nine miles an hour with a trailer car for passengers. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• That they are perfectly safe for passengers. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• Introduces the next The passengers were landing from the packet on the pier at Calais. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• The bridge is divided into five avenues: one central one for foot passengers, two outer ones for vehicles, and the others for the street cars. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• The guard, the coachman, and the two other passengers eyed him distrustfully. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• They say he goes about the state-rooms when the passengers are out, and eats up all the soap. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• Once more, the Dover mail struggled on, with the jack-boots of its passengers squashing along by its side. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• The sand hills, some of them almost inaccessible to foot-passengers, were surveyed off and mapped into fifty vara lots--a vara being a Spanish yard. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Then the boy would go to his shop in the caboose, set up the item, print it, and sell it, beating the daily newspapers that might be awaiting the passengers at the end of the ride. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• Its streets were blocked up with snow--the few passengers seemed palsied, and frozen by the ungenial visitation of winter. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• The newsboy found an old hand-press and began to print a paper himself, called the _Grand Trunk Herald_, and sold it to the employees and regular passengers on his line. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• Three-fourths of the Quaker City's passengers were between forty and seventy years of age! Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• This road was primarily built to transport freight, and passengers were in reality an afterthought. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• The passengers slide off upon the prongs of the comb at the top and land without jar or shock. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.

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