"Good Lord!" said he, aghast at the notion; "what would Agatha say if she knew I had been fighting like a drunken truck-driver!

Their inference is broad enough to protect the most brutal driver amidst his deadliest inflictions!

At any rate, he was an adept at the pilot wheel of a car, though inclined to be a reckless driver; just as he was also a daring air voyager, taking desperate chances that promised to bring him to grief one of these days.

Away to the window I flew like a flash, Tore open the shutters and threw up the sash; The moon on the breast of the new-fallen snow Gave a luster of mid-day to objects below; When, what to my wondering eyes should appear, But a miniature sleigh and eight tiny reindeer, With a little old driver, so lively and quick, I knew in a moment it must be St. Nick.

" "Oh, bother you, Ally!" exclaimed the other; "what a nigger-driver you are!Hullo, there's the bell!Here, kid, stick those two oranges in your pocket; go 'long!

"On sugar plantations generally, and on some cotton plantations, they have negro drivers, who are in such a degree responsible for their gang, that if they are at fault, the driver is whipped.

The slave never can do this as long as he is a slave; whilst he is a "chattel personal" he can own no property; but the time is to come when every man is to sit under his own vine and his own fig-tree, and no domineering driver, or irresponsible master, or irascible mistress, shall make him afraid of the chain or the whip.

" "He is recommended as a very careful driver," said Mr. Merrick; "and moreover he has signed a contract to obey my orders.

We were all rather amused, and could not help bursting into laughter, as, inflated with a sense of his own importance, he began abusing one of the native drivers of the Nepaulee chief; this man did not submit tamely to his insolence.

"Looks like rain, Elder; I 'spect she'll have to go over with me arter all," said George Thayer, the handsomest, best-natured stage-driver in the whole State of New Hampshire.

In addition there were enumerated of whites in non-mechanical employments in which the negroes did not participate, 7 omnibus drivers and 16 barkeepers.

He knows the route we're going to take; can make all repairs necessary in case of accident, and is an experienced driver.

It is a habit with mule drivers in the army, many of whom are men without feeling for a dumb animal, to whip mules just to hear their whips crack, and to let others hear with what dexterity they can do it.

Perhaps it was the brassie that was to blamefor a full-length, supple-shafted, wooden driver would have been what you or I would have chosen for that strokeor perhaps West himself was to blame.

It happened, however, that a remarkably bold and fearless driver was on the box.

How would you feel if all you loved best were carried off by a cruel slave-driver, and you had no hope of hearing from them again in this world?

Among these hills I rode in a light conveyance, with a trusty driver, whose unkempt flaxen hair hung shaggy about his ears and his leather neck of reddish tan.

On one bridge a car hung for some days between heaven and earth, its front wheels caught over the parapet, and the car hanging from them over the canala heartening sight for a nervous driver.

Still harping on old furniture, he was in the act of remarking that "he should know the shop again, though he had forgotten the number, and that it must be a few doors higher up," when his companion started, uttered a tremendous execration, and struggling to free himself from Tom's arm, holloaed at an unconscious cab-driver to stop.

"It's all right," Blake assured the livery stable driver.

The man with the gun followed, and called to the two colored drivers who were on horseback, to ride after me and stop me.

Fain are we all, grim driver, to descend And stretch with lingering feet the little way That yet is oursO stop thy horses, pray!

Gratton summoned a somnolent taxi-driver and they were whisked through the cool air to a garage.

Mr. Sapington, is a repentant "soul driver" or slave trader, now a citizen of Lancaster, Pa.

The greatest thing was a wagon containing a miniature pile driver, run by steam, which was driven around outside of where the big tents were to be, and it drove down the big stakes so quick it would make your head swim, and the grounds were covered with Peoria people who wanted to see how it was done.