" Jacopo followed his mild conductor into one of the neglected closets of the second floor, where, in truth, he was glad to catch a glimpse of the state of things in the piazza, before he left the palace.

Soon we would be off and I would ask the conductor if Greentown was the station where one could change and drive to Beulah, darling little Beulah, shiny-rivered Beulah; not breathing a word about the yellow house for fear he would jump off the train and rent it first.

I told my conductor I had analyzed it, and he seemed not a little astonished at the rapidity and simplicity of the method.

"Roland! Roland!" called the conductor in stentorian tones, and with little squeals of excitement the girls found their hand baggage, gave one last little pat to their hats, and started toward the door.

Hurrying through the train, Lister found the conductor, who look him to a curtained berth, and the girl got down.

Describing them at a later date he says: "Much time and expense were lost in consequence of my following the plan adopted in England of laying the conductors beneath the ground.

" "I'm sorry to discommode you," returned the conductor, "but there's no use kicking.

Change cars for the Naugatuck Railroad!" shouted the conductor of the New York and Boston Express Train, on the evening of May 27th, 1858.

" "That's what it is," replied the 'bus-conductor.

In Antigua and Barbadoes, manager is the word in general use, in Jamaica it is overseerboth meaning the practical conductor or immediate superintendent of an estate.

But she was merely signaling the conductor, who promptly pulled the bell and lifted her basket for her when she got off.

'Putney!' cried the conductor, like fate.

The favourable accounts I received of his character, as well as his odd course of life, made me very desirous of becoming acquainted with him; and, as he was often visited by the villagers, I found no difficulty in getting a conductor to his cell.

I dearly love 'bus conductors, such an interesting and vivacious class.

This was to be accomplished by the use of a specially devised plough of peculiar construction, to be drawn by a powerful team, by which means the pipe containing the electric conductors was to be automatically deposited in the earth.

"Anybody in here jerk that bellcord?" demanded the conductor, scowling.

I instantly arrested the eastward current, detaching that conductor from the apergion; and, directing the whole force of the current into the downward conductor, I had the pleasure of seeing that, after a very little adjustment of the helm, the stars remained stationary in the mirror of the metacompass, showing that I had escaped from the influence of the Earth's rotation.

He loathed the incoherent music; detested the conductor; despised the orchestra; felt murderous toward the Italian tenor; and could have slain the man who wrote the opera, since it made his bright girl a target for praise and blame.

But an art, somewhat analogous to, but infinitely surpassing, that displayed in the manipulation of the most skilfully constructed and most complicated magic lanterns, enables the conductors of the theatre to present upon the stage a truly living and moving picture of any scene they desire to exhibit.

Immediately the thin film or sheet of fibres enters the conductor, it is caused as a body gradually to contract in width and, of course, to increase in thickness, and is simultaneously guided and delivered to the delivery rollers, and from these to the sliver can, distinctly seen immediately below the delivery rollers.

'You fool!' exclaims his Arabian conductor, 'would you have us also to perish for want of water?'

You fee the man at the bank who cashes your checks, you fee the street-car conductor who takes your fare, you fee every uniformed hireling of the government, whether he has done anything for you or not.

There is a preponderance of repulsive action, tending to force the two conductors apart in an axial line.

Such a line is established, be it understood, not by a direct projection through space of astral matter, but by such action upon a line (or rather many lines) of particles of that substance as will render them capable of forming a conductor for vibrations of the character required.

"I shall soon be conveyed thither in right earnest, and not have the power of frightening away my conductors on the road.