 | William Fletcher (mechanical engineer.) - Collection locomotives - 1891 - 344 pages
...rapid car ; On on, wide-waving wings expanded bear The flying chariot through the fields of air, Fair crews triumphant, leaning from above Shall wave their fluttering kerchiefs as they move, Or warrior bands alarm the gaping crowd And armies shrink beneath the shadowy cloud. Since Darwin, in... | |
 | Lionel Arthur Tollemache - English essays - 1893 - 466 pages
...he added that, with the aid of steam, there will be an emigration to the moon, and that — " Fair crews triumphant, leaning from above, Shall wave their fluttering 'kerchiefs as they move." This bold surmise may be compared with a yet bolder speculation which has lately been put forward,... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - English language - 1897 - 592 pages
...rapid car ; Or, on wide-waving wings expanded, bear The flying chariot through the fields of air. Fair crews triumphant, leaning from above, Shall wave their fluttering kerchiefs as they mow Or warrior-bands alarm the gaping crowd, And armies sink beneath the shadowy cloud. " So mighty... | |
 | Local history - 1908 - 270 pages
...rapid car ; Or on wide waving wing expanded bear The flying chariot through the fields of air, — Fair crews triumphant, leaning from above, Shall wave their fluttering kerchiefs as they move, Or warrior bands alarm the gaping crowd, And armies shrink beneath the shadowy cloud." Several years ago... | |
 | Costume - 1832 - 372 pages
...rapid car; Or on widn waving winga expanded bear Thy flying chariot through the fields of air. Fair crews, triumphant leaning from above, Shall wave their fluttering 'kerchiefs as they movt; Or warrior's hands alarm the gaping crowd. And armies shun!, beneath the shadowy cloud . Po mighty... | |
 | Readers - 1899 - 312 pages
...rapid car; Or, on wide waving wings expanded, bear The flying chariot through the fields of air; Fair crews triumphant, leaning from above, Shall wave their fluttering kerchiefs as they move, Or warrior bands alarm the gaping crowd, And armies shrink beneath the shadowy cloud." What would he have... | |
 | Readers - 1899 - 312 pages
...rapid car; Or, on wide -waving wings expanded, bear The flying chariot through the fields of air; Fair crews triumphant, leaning from above, Shall wave their fluttering kerchiefs as they move, Or warrior bands alarm the gaping crowd, And armies shrink beneath the shadowy cloud." What would he have... | |
 | Literature - 1900 - 424 pages
...car ; Or on wide waving wings expanded bear The flying chariot through the fields of air; — Fair crews triumphant, leaning from above, Shall wave their fluttering kerchiefs, as they move, Or warrior bands alarm the gaping crowd, And armies shrink beneath the shadowy cloud." What would he have... | |
 | Lyman Horace Weeks - Automobiles - 1904 - 240 pages
...rapid car ; On, on wide waving wings, expanded bear The flying chariot through the field of air ; Fair crews triumphant, leaning from above, Shall wave their fluttering 'kerchiefs as they move, Or warrior bands alarm the gaping crowds, And armies shrink beneath the shadowy clouds." These lines may... | |
 | Albert Newton Raub - Readers (Elementary) - 1906 - 362 pages
...car ; Or, on wide-waving wings expanded, bear The flying chariot through the fields of air ; — Fair crews triumphant, leaning from above, Shall wave their fluttering kerchiefs as they move, Or warrior bands alarm the gaping crowd, And armies shrink beneath the shadowy cloud." 5. What would he... | |
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Steam, afar Drag the slow barge, or drive the rapid car ; Or, on wide-waving wings expanded bear The flying chariot through the fields of air,* Fair crews triumphant leaning from above, Shall wave their fluttering 'kerchiefs as they move ; Or warrior... 
