"Black maria" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... camp 'Come quick,' Tell every black Maria I give tobacco half a stick— Hold inquest ...
— Saltbush Bill, J.P., and Other Verses • A. B. Paterson
... made up his mind that he would break through our lines, and get to Calais. Yes, it was a touch and go with us. Fancy four to one, and they had all the advantage in big guns and ammunition. You think those big guns? Wait till you have heard Jack Johnson and Black Maria. Talk about hell! Hell was never as bad as the battle of Wipers. I thought we were licked once. I was in the part where our line was the thinnest, and we saw 'em coming towards us in crowds; there seemed to ...
— Tommy • Joseph Hocking
... Black Maria!" yelled an emissary from the corner, and the crowd parted as the long, narrow, black patrol-wagon clanged ...
— Calvary Alley • Alice Hegan Rice
... shoulder, thinking he would be justified in shooting if anything started inside. Boys on bicycles pedaled furiously to keep up, and many an automobile barely escaped the curb because the driver was goggling at the mussed-up prisoner in the "Black Maria." ...
— The Trail of the White Mule • B. M. Bower
... rather of the satirical turn, as one is likely to be who has driven the "Black Maria," and has thus found out that the world is all a fleeting show; "yes, you've got so much genus in your upper story that it has made a hole in the crown of your hat, so it can see what sort of weather is ...
— Graham's Magazine Vol. XXXII No. 2. February 1848 • Various
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