Strangely enough the consideration of her fellow passengers left the girl in undisturbed possession of a double seat.

The engineer never relaxes his vigilance, and, although he affects to make light of the responsibility, and assures his somewhat nervous passenger that there is no danger of any kind, his actions do not bear out his words.

Margaret Donne had been the most sensible and simple of young girls, and when she appeared at the gangway very quietly dressed in brown, with a brown fur collar, a brown hat, a brown veil, and a brown parasol, there was really nothing striking to distinguish her from other female passengers, except her good looks and her well-set-up figure.

With some of these Mr. Palmer had no concern; they rested upon bye-laws not unreasonable, enacted by posting-houses for their own benefit, and upon others equally stern, enacted by the inside passengers for the illustration of their own exclusiveness.

The seventh passenger, by Alice MacGowan and Perry Newberry.

My companion getting out, left me in the comfortable possession of my ignorance; and I heard him, as he went off, putting questions to an outside passenger, who had alighted with him, regarding an epidemic disorder, that had been rife about Dalston; and which, my friend assured him, had gone through five or six schools in that neighbourhood.

He wishes fewer laws, so they were better observed; and for those are mulctuary, he understands their institution not to be like briers or springs, to catch everything they lay hold of, but, like sea-marks on our dangerous Goodwin, to avoid the shipwreck of innocent passengers.

The left-handed passenger.

At every roll of the ship and every surge of the waves, unfortunate passengers or sailors were washed overboard and plunged into the boiling, seething waves which thundered about them.

She, whose heart cried out for the distinction of train-boy, conductor, engineer, brakeman, or fireman, in the order named, had been forced into the only degrading post in the gamea mere passenger without voice or office in those delicate feats of administration.

The Guard says to our Governor, "I don't quite make out these little passengers, but the young gentleman's words was, that they was to be brought here.

When, a few minutes later, the train drew in, he even avoided ostentatiously a journey to the far end of the platform to open the door for the solitary passenger who was standing there.

The London coach is come in, and there is Mr. Fillaside, the fat passenger, has been bawling for somebody to help him off with his boots.

Too high, bright maid, thou rat'st exteriour grace: Not always do the fairest flow'rs diffuse The richest odours, nor the speckled shells Conceal the gem; let female arrogance Observe the feather'd wand'rers of the sky; With purple varied, and bedrop'd with gold, They prune the wing, and spread the glossy plumes, Ordain'd, like you, to flutter and to shine, And cheer the weary passenger with musick.

A group of excited passengers stood round them in the light that shone from the train and some others ran along the edge of the woods.

But then the rich presents of gold and silver given him by Alcinous, which he saw carefully laid up in secure places near him, staggered him: which seemed not like the act of wrongful or unjust men, such as turn pirates for gain, or land helpless passengers in remote coasts to possess themselves of their goods.

There was fun in the loading of that basket: but even the boys from Long Island were astonished at the number and size of the fine, freshly-caught blue-fish, to which they were treating the hungry passengers of the "Prudhomme;" and the basket had to go and come again and again.

Here the two men left us, to seek certain distinguished passengers, I suppose, whose views upon the questions of the day were (presumably) anxiously awaited by an expectant public.

It might make room for an extra passenger, or provide an extra amusement to draw traffic.

We travelled with one of those troublesome fellow-passengers in a stage-coach that is called a well-informed man.

Never did a voyage appear longer to an anxious passenger than did that of the Mary Anne to England.

In the railway stationwhose buvette served him such listless refreshment as one may find at railway lunch-counters and nowhere else the world overa train was waiting with an apathetic crew and a sprinkling of sleepy passengers, for the most part farm and village folk of the department.

At last the train came, the impatient passengers entered it, and they were once more on their way.

The passionate passenger to his lover.

Charles Addams (A); 16Jun65; R363301. Subway scene, invisible passenger reading a newspaper.