"Stagecoach" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... "The Stagecoach," from Mark Twain's Roughing It, is used by express permission of the Estate of Samuel L. Clemens, the Mark Twain Company, and Harper ...
— Story Hour Readings: Seventh Year • E.C. Hartwell
... at Bordeaux, in France, and joining a merry company, traveled with them in a kind of stagecoach ...
— Four Famous American Writers: Washington Irving, Edgar Allan Poe, • Sherwin Cody
... in dismay, for in the two men he was at no loss in recognizing his stagecoach companion, Col. Warner, and the landlord who had essayed the part of a ...
— Do and Dare - A Brave Boy's Fight for Fortune • Horatio Alger, Jr.
... painting had almost raised him to the rank of a connoisseur: an amateur he modestly professed himself, and he was frequently stretched, in elegant ease, upon a sofa, already in reverie in Italy, whilst his pupil was conversing out of the window, in no very elegant dialect, with the driver of a stagecoach in the neighbourhood. Young Holloway was almost as familiar with this coachman as with his father's groom, who, during his visits at home, supplied the place of Mr. Supine, in advancing his education. The stage-coachman so effectually wrought upon the ambition ...
— Tales And Novels, Volume 1 • Maria Edgeworth
... diseases of the body. Intellectual mumps and measles still afflict mankind. Whenever the new comes, the old protests, and the old fights for its place as long as it has a particle of power. And we are now having the same warfare between superstition and science that there was between the stagecoach and the locomotive. But the stage-coach had to go. It had its day of glory and power, but it is gone. It went West. In a little while it will be driven into the Pacific, with the last Indian aboard. So we find that there is the same conflict between the different sects and ...
— Lectures of Col. R. G. Ingersoll - Latest • Robert Green Ingersoll
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