"Turnpike" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... her arrival in the dining-room, having flung herself into a chair, began thus to harangue: "Well, surely, no one ever had such an intolerable journey. I think the roads, since so many turnpike acts, are grown worse than ever. La, brother, how could you get into this odious place? no person of condition, I dare swear, ever set foot here before." "I don't know," cries the squire, "I think they do well enough; it was landlord recommended them. I thought, as he knew most of ...
— The History of Tom Jones, a foundling • Henry Fielding
... thousand of them here,' said he, tapping the book, 'and you may calculate as many more for yourself as ever you like. Nothing to do but sit in an arm-chair on a wet day like this, and say, If from the Mile End turnpike to the "Castle" on the Kingsland Road is so much, how much should it be to the "Yorkshire Stingo," or Pine-Apple-Place, Maida Vale? And you measure by other fares till you get as near the place you want as you can, if it isn't set down in black and white to your ...
— Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour • R. S. Surtees
... and mortar by a Countess laid In sloping meadows by a turnpike glade,— A Gothic mansion where all arts unite To form a home ...
— The Adventure of Living • John St. Loe Strachey
... proud ones Who in their coaches roll along the turnpike- Road, what hard work 'tis crying all day, "Knives and ...
— The Home Book of Verse, Vol. 4 (of 4) • Various
... matter of pleasantry even to the sedulous housewife and the rural dean. There is always a copious supply of Lord Sidmouths in the world; nor is there one single source of human happiness against which they have not uttered the most lugubrious predictions. Turnpike roads, navigable canals, inoculation, hops, tobacco, the Reformation, the Revolution—there are always a set of worthy and moderately-gifted men, who bawl out death and ruin upon every valuable change which the varying aspect of human affairs ...
— Peter Plymley's Letters and Selected Essays • Sydney Smith
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