1 They took the clothes out of the waggon, put them in the water, and vied with one another in treading them in the pits to get the dirt out.
2 As long as we are going past the fields and farm lands, follow briskly behind the waggon along with the maids and I will lead the way myself.
3 She was careful not to go too fast for Ulysses and the maids who were following on foot along with the waggon, so she plied her whip with judgement.
4 Recalled by the rumbling of wheels to the road before me, I saw a heavily-laden waggon labouring up the hill, and not far beyond were two cows and their drover.
5 The Elder to whose care the two waifs had been committed, led them to his waggon, where a meal was already awaiting them.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In PART II: CHAPTER I. ON THE GREAT ALKALI PLAIN 6 Little Lucy Ferrier was borne along pleasantly enough in Elder Stangerson's waggon, a retreat which she shared with the Mormon's three wives and with his son, a headstrong forward boy of twelve.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In PART II: CHAPTER II. THE FLOWER OF UTAH 7 The huts in question were stoutly built and the intervening alleys well laid-out; while, wherever a waggon was visible, it looked serviceable and more or less new.
8 Right across the enormous plain stretched the straggling array, waggons and carts, men on horseback, and men on foot.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In PART II: CHAPTER I. ON THE GREAT ALKALI PLAIN 9 Innumerable women who staggered along under burdens, and children who toddled beside the waggons or peeped out from under the white coverings.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In PART II: CHAPTER I. ON THE GREAT ALKALI PLAIN 10 One of them seized the little girl, and hoisted her upon his shoulder, while two others supported her gaunt companion, and assisted him towards the waggons.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In PART II: CHAPTER I. ON THE GREAT ALKALI PLAIN 11 With a cracking of whips and a creaking of wheels the great waggons got into motion, and soon the whole caravan was winding along once more.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In PART II: CHAPTER I. ON THE GREAT ALKALI PLAIN 12 He remembered to have seen the waggons, as they went out, toiling up the hill.
13 A glimpse of the river through a dull gateway, where some waggons were housed for the night, seemed to arrest my feet.
14 He glanced at the dirty and unpropitious corner on which they stood, with the shriek of the "elevated" and the tumult of trams and waggons contending hideously in their ears.
15 He followed into the market and watched the men unloading their waggons.