Wagon Sentence Examples

He climbed onto the wagon and sat on its edge.

The wagon groaned into a slow roll.

The wagon strained forward.

He eyed the space beside her on the wagon seat suspiciously.

Tucking a wayward strand of curly brown hair back into her bun, she replaced her hat and wrapped the lead lines around the wagon break.

She watched him climb stiffly into his wagon and knew a moment of sadness when she remembered that before long she would be leaving and she would never see him again.

He bought some battery powered lights to hang on the wagon and Gerald helped him pile hay on the wagon.

She climbed into her wagon and dropped onto the hard seat.

Then she headed for her wagon to harness the team.

In the 1990s, the company experienced a drop in sales and decided to redesign the wagon into a van and market it as such.

Turning on one heal, she stalked off to her wagon.

Pete threw his feet over the wagon seat and dropped to the ground.

She watched Pete's bowlegged figure lurch back to his wagon.

He accepted the tin of flapjacks she offered and jerked his head toward her wagon.

She sat up quickly, bumping her head on the wagon.

The decision made, everybody grabbed a shovel and started digging under their wagon.

I could see a man and a boy some distance away, pitching hay into a horse drawn wagon.

They brought the remains down in a wagon this afternoon.

She took a step toward the wooden wagon.

She turned, running blindly for the privacy of her wagon.

When water ballast is employed the water is filled into a tank in the bottom of the wagon or car, its quantity, if passengers are carried, being regulated by the number ascending or descending.

It is generally convenient to keep the inwards and the outwards traffic distinct and to deal with the two classes separately; at junction stations it may also be necessary to provide for the transfer of freight from one wagon to another, though the bulk of goods traffic is conveyed through to its destination in the wagons into which it was originally loaded.

It served by the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy, and the Missouri Pacific railway systems. A railway and wagon bridge spans the Missouri.

Budd's Inlet is spanned here by a wagon bridge and a railway bridge.

The wagon lurched forward again.

And he also passed on with the wagon.

As often happens, the horses of a convoy wagon became restive at the end of the bridge, and the whole crowd had to wait.

The Cossack bent forward from under the wagon to get a closer look at Petya.

The Cossack was sharpening the saber under the wagon.

Perhaps he was really sitting on a wagon, but it might very well be that he was not sitting on a wagon but on a terribly high tower from which, if he fell, he would have to fall for a whole day or a whole month, or go on falling and never reach the bottom.

January 20 th 1866 Thomas Chatteris of Pentelow was fined 5s for riding on the shafts of a wagon at Stansfield.

There they would shovel the coal out of a railroad wagon into coal bags that we held open for them on the scales.

Activities include horse drawn wagon rides, snowshoeing, ice fishing, snowmobiling, heli-skiing, visits to the Wolf education center.

Design characteristics SUVs were traditionally derived from light truck platforms, but have developed to have the general shape of a station wagon.

Michigan for instance station wagon models such innovation accidents there are.

The visitors covered the last mile of their journey to Bures in a vintage harvest wagon, making a triumphal entry to the ground.

He then urged his fireman James Nightall, to get down and uncouple this wagon from the rest.

They carried the rope to the cave in a large coil, rolling it along down the passage like a wagon wheel.

All Saints' church is Norman and has the original buttresses with a wagon roof in the nave.

Both of these men, after little delay, were removed in the ambulance wagon to the Royal Infirmary, Glasgow.

One of only two known photographs showing a Sentinel S6 steam wagon in action.

But without anyone foreseeing it, the days of the red fire wagon and with it the use of horse were soon to end.

She drove twelve spotted horses yoked to the high band wagon of a road circus.

A wagon tippler emptied the tram wagons into standard gage stock.

Roman war chariots formed the initial ruts, which everyone else had to match for fear of destroying their wagon wheels.

If he 's looking straight at you instead of the hay wagon, you know he 's conscious of the camera.

Stuffed animals, balls, brush/comb set, bib, rattles, burp cloth, and receiving blankets will look great nestled in an adorable wagon.

Once baby grows, he'll love playing with the wagon, too!

Even youth groups and schools have jumped on board the composting wagon and use these composters to make the richest compost and then sell it to fund trips and other activities.

Without adequate labeling laws in place, companies have jumped on the "green" wagon hoping to make a fortune.

Native American artifacts are also common as are artifacts from the Old West, such as wagon wheels, cowboys and horses.

Garden accessories such as rustic log cabin birdhouses, cast iron bird baths and wagon wheel or whiskey barrel planters add rustic charm to a rugged lodge backyard.

The recovering alcoholic reportedly "fell off the wagon" a few months prior to the incident.

Finally, if a daughter is less inclined to get on the team wagon with the clothes, there are pink and white jerseys designed to appeal to her.

With organic cotton clothing becoming more and more popular, the manufacturers of big and tall men's clothing have jumped on the organic wagon.

Gunslingers hide behind wagon wheels, duck under horse troughs, and shoot their gun by slamming the hammer with their palm.

Generally, these trains consisted of a locomotive and an attached carriage and wagon.

As of 2010, the Hountalas family, under the name of Peanut Wagon, manages the Cliff House Restaurant in San Francisco, as well as its events and operations.

Working hitches allow you to attach accessories like the John Deere Dumping Wagon for more realistic farm action.

No dragon is safe when the dragon wagon is rolling through the streets of the kingdom.

Artist Paul Lanquist's beautiful ocean scene includes a classic car favored by early surfers, the Woody Wagon.

Arguably the first great "edutainment" title for personal computers was The Oregon Trail, a title that put players into the role of a nineteenth century pioneer making his way across the American wilderness with a wagon train.

When family friend and future president Andrew Jackson came to visit, the witch stopped his wagon on the road to the Bell's farm, and wouldn't let it move forward until she'd demonstrated her powers to him!

But if you really want to go all out, you'll be excited to know that some top designers have jumped on the jelly wagon.

When Ryan's mother can't stay on the wagon, the Cohens offer Ryan a place in their home.

Throughout the 1960s, Scott was a frequent guest star on popular programs of the era including Wagon Train, My Three Sons and Ironside.

The first wagon train of 120 settlers arrived here on May 8, 1846 - and each of these first immigrants was given a town lot and ten acres of nearby farmland.

Don't compare an SUV to a wagon, minivan, or truck.

If you want to use the car for hauling, you might want a van, wagon, or SUV of some sort.

Thus came the Ford Flex crossover, a boxy SUV look-alike that offered more family functionality and looked much like the old Ford Fairlane, a wagon named for the home where Henry Ford resided.

The style reminds car buyers of an old-fashioned wagon but with a wow factor.

The company called ths vehicle a Passenger Wagon.

Decorate a wagon float to parade around at a pep rally.

The makers of the diet suggest individuals carry cookies in the car or keep them at work to stave off hunger, which often causes people to fall off the wagon when it comes to dieting.

She wisely hitched her wagon to co-star Rob Mariano who took her to the final two.

Gene Roddenberry famously pitched his series concept as "Wagon Train to the Stars!"

The increased loading space required in the sheds is obtained by multiplying the number and the length of lines and platforms; sometimes also there are short sidings, cut into the platforms at right angles to the lines, in which wagons are placed by the aid of wagon turn-tables, and sometimes the wagons are dealt with on two floors, being raised or lowered bodily from the ground level by lifts.

In Great Britain the mineral trucks can ordinarily hold from 8 to io tons (long tons, 2240 lb), and the goods trucks rather less, though there are wagons in use holding 12 or 15 tons, and the specifications agreed to by the railway companies associated in the Railway Clearing House permit private wagon owners (who own about 45% of the wagon stock run on the railways of the United Kingdom) to build also wagons holding 20, 30, 40 and 56 tons.

An ordinary British 10-ton wagon often weighs about 6 tons empty, and rarely much less than 5 tons; that is, the ratio of its possible paying load to its tare weight is at the best about 2 to 1.

Until the completion of the trans-continental railway in 1869, wagon trains were the only means of transporting the products of the mines across the desert.

The mileage of wagon roads was increased from about 170 m.

It has cotton factories, smelting works, potteries, tanneries, distilleries, and wagon and tobacco factories.

Wagon roads are still of small extent and primitive character save in a very few localities.

The city is situated in an agricultural and cotton-raising region, and has cotton compresses and gins, cotton mills, cotton-seed oil refineries, foundries and machine shops, and furniture and wagon factories.

But the trade over berg largely developed on the dis covery of the Kimberley diamond mines, and the progress of the country was greatly promoted by the substitution of the railway for the ox wagon as a means of transport.

Not to be coerced in this manner, the Rand merchants proceeded to bring their goods on from the Vaal by wagon.

The garrison, though already weakened by privation and sickness, made a stubborn resistance, and after one of the fiercest engagements of the war, repulsed the attack at Caesar's Camp and Wagon Hill with severe loss to the enemy, itself having 500 casualties.

In 1905 Anderson ranked first among the cities of the state in the manufacture of carriage and wagon material, and iron and steel.

Moreover, the largest streams have numerous tributaries, and nearly all alike flow circuitously between steep if not vertical cliffs or in deep craggy ravines overlooked by distant hills, among which the wagon road has wound its way with difficulty.

The light Cape cart is largely used, and the wagon, drawn by a team of oxen, is still employed by farmers to bring their produce to market.

An attack was made on the same day and the Federals were driven within their defences, but at night General Price withdrew to the Fair-grounds not far away and remained there five days waiting for his wagon train and for reinforcements.

Ptolemy catalogued 8 stars, Tycho 7 and Hevelius Of these, the seven brightest (a of the 1st magnitude, 0, y, of the 2nd magnitude, and b of the 3rd magnitude) constitute one of the most characteristic figures in the northern sky; they have received various names - Septentriones, the wagon, plough, dipper and Charles's wain (a corruption of " churl's wain," or peasant's cart).

The town possesses iron, steel and brass works, railway wagon works, potteries, glass-works, breweries, saw-mills and rope-yards.

Most of the lines run south or south-west from Cincinnati and Louisville, and the east border of the state still has a small railway mileage and practically no wagon roads, most of the travel being on horseback.

This latter route began at Inglis's Ferry, on the New river, in what is now West Virginia, and proceeded west by south to the Cumberland Gap. The " Wilderness Road," as marked by Daniel Boone in 1775, was a mere trail, running from the Watauga settlement in east Tennessee to the Cumberland Gap, and thence by way of what are now Crab Orchard, Danville and Bardstown, to the Falls of the Ohio, and was passable only for men and horses until 1795, when the state made it a wagon road.

In development of this consideration, Smith goes on to explain the gain to the community arising from the substitution of paper money for that composed of the precious metals; and here occurs the remarkable illustration in which the use of gold and silver money is compared to a highway on the ground, that of paper money to a wagon way through the air.

The Leeds and Liverpool Canal intersects the township. There are large collieries, ironworks, forges, railway wagon works, and cotton mills.

Wagon tracks lead to Ngami, 320 m.

The principal towns are connected by wagon roads, towards the construction and maintenance of which each male inhabitant is required to pay two pesos or give four days' work a year.

After the independence of Mexico Santa Fe became the centre of a growing commerce with the United States, conducted at first by pack animals, and later by wagon trains over the old Santa Fe Trail leading south-west from Independence, Kansas City, and, in earlier years, other places in Missouri, to Santa Fe.

The arrival of the first railway train, on the 9th of February 1880, marked a new epoch in the history of Santa Fe, which until then had remained essentially a Mexican town; but with the discontinuance of the wagon caravans over the old trail, it lost its importance as the entrepot for the commerce of the South-west.

There are good wagon roads on the islands, some of them macadamized, built of the hard blue lava rock.

If for massive walls, it is usual to tip it out in large quantities from a barrow or wagon, and simply spread it in layers about a foot thick.

There are some fairly good wagon roads, and the government appropriates annually a considerable sum for their extension.

It has cotton and knitting mills, cotton-seed oil factories, machine shops, and wagon, stove, plough and fertilizer factories; and is a market and jobbing centre for a fertile agricultural region.

Various industries are carried on, including brickmaking, tanning, brewing, and cart and wagon building.

The transoceanic invasion progressed slowly through the 17th and 18th centuries, delayed by the head winds of a rough ocean which was crossed only in slow sailing vessels, and by the rough " backwoods " of the Appalachians, which retarded the penetration of wagon roads and canals into the interior.

All children between the ages of eight and twelve years are required to attend a public school at least twelve weeks in a year (six weeks consecutively) unless excused on account of weakness of mind or body, unless the child can read and write and is attending a private school, or unless the child lives more than two miles from the nearest school and more than one mile from an established public school wagon route.

Argentine Pass (13,000 ft.), near Gray's Peak, is one of the highest wagon roads of the world; just east of Silverton is Rio Grande Pass, about 12,400 ft.

Julesburg, in the extreme north-east corner, at the intersection of the Platte valley and the overland wagon route, became transiently important during the rush of settlers that followed.

From Missouri caravans of pack animals, and later wagon trains, set out in May of each year on the Boo m.

Among its manufactories are woollen mills, smelting works, brass and iron foundries, a steel producing plant, sawmills, flour-mills, breweries, and a carriage and wagon factory.

Paarl is a thriving agricultural and viticultural centre, among its industries being the manufacture of wine and brandy, wagon and carriage building and harness making.

At New Shildon or East Thickley are extensive railway engine and wagon works belonging to the railway company.

The ox is very generally used as a draught animal in country districts remote from railways; sixteen or eighteen oxen being harnessed to a wagon carrying 3 to 4 tons.

Some weigh - bridges are arranged in a manner similar to that of the platform machines already described, but having the long body lever turned askew, so that the end of it projects considerably beyond the side of the weighbridge casing, and the pillar and steelyard which receive its pull are clear of the wagon on the platform.

The most important industries of the town are worsted-spinning, carriage and wagon building, and the making of colours and pottery.

There are two old wagon roads from Panama City, one, now little used, north to Porto Bello, and the other (called the royal road) 17 m.

From the time the sheaves of wheat are tumbled into the wagon until the flour reaches the hands of the cook, no hand touches the wheat that passes through the great Minneapolis mills.

There are also flour mills, tanneries (United States Leather Co.), patent medicine, furniture, coffin woodenware and wagon factories, knitting and spinning mills, planing mills, and sash, door and blind factories - the lumber being obtained from logs floated down the river and by rail.

The new town grew up around the vast locomotive and wagon works of the Great Western railway, and is an important junction on that syrtem with a separate station on the Midland and SouthWestern Junction railway.

When melted the products separate on the bed (which is made of closely packed sand or other infusible substances), according to their density; the lighter earthy matters forming an upper layer of slag are drawn out by the slag hole K at the flue end into an iron wagon or bogie, while the metal subsides to the bottom of the bed, and at the termination of the operation is run out by the tap hole L into moulds or granulated into water.

Cassie leaned forward on the wagon seat, squinting anxiously into the incandescent sunrise.

He made the transition from horse to wagon in one smooth movement.

Pete said a freight wagon the size of theirs would normally only travel ten to twelve miles a day, but the seats he had put in for the riders reduced the weight they could carry.

Pete passed them on the way to his wagon and pointed a gnarled finger at her.

Then, out of character and without preamble, he announced, I've got one more nail to put a flat in Mr. Fitzgerald's little red wagon.

Pretending she didn't see him, she tried to scramble quickly into the wagon so that he wouldn't have an excuse to touch her.

Loading John's body upon a small wagon, they head for the grand bazaar, on route for the citadel.

We had six bullocks and four men with the wagon and our own boy Daudi, who carried the lantern till daylight came.

The famous and very collectible sad face pedal cars of the late 1940s like the estate wagon and sedan inspired.. .

He drove us out to his house where we loaded up the wagon attached to his car with empty crates.

Wagon roof of 24 panels, the wall plates with quatrefoil friezes.

In July 1784, according to the Staffordshire Advertiser, one such wagon was carrying gunpowder.

The two men manage to move the wagon near to a water hydrant where the fire is extinguished.

From these wagons Zizka created a method of rapidly deploying a defensive wagon laager, in essence a mobile fort.

Wagon Wheels S A large circular marshmallow and cookie snack covered in chocolate.

Former Gloucester Wagon Works employe Terence Lamb, from Cheltenham, died on 19 January this year from the asbestos cancer mesothelioma.

The largest wagon drawn by oxen was needed to transport the fish from the Severn to London.

Here the crane is seen lifting a pallet of equipment from the wagon, under the instruction of James.

The first design I tried was a single pivot like the orange 223 which I built out of a wagon exhaust it was heavy!

I highly recommend you find a snack wagon and try their " Rosti ", a fried potato and onion fritter.

This configuration generally prevailed from the earliest origins of the wagon bodystyle in the 1920s through the 1940s.

As the 4x4's various pseudonyms - Chelsea Tractor, Montessori Wagon - suggest, it's not their ability to go off road.

The simple wagon roof of two bays is coved with decorated purlins, molded ribs and quatrefoil tracery.

The old porch was removed and a new one designed using an oak purlin from the wagon roof in the nave.

He will soon be making a fiberglass replica to be fitted to the wagon.

Their brief was to create a vehicle more spacious, versatile and economical than the traditional North American station wagon.

A guy pulls up in a beat up old station wagon to offer a lift.

Two days later their burned-out station wagon was discovered on a lonely road, but the men were nowhere to be found.

Journeys sitting in the back of the family station wagon, elbowing siblings and squabbling, looking out into the darkness watching for eyes.

He disturbed thieves breaking into a goods wagon and was beaten to death, probably by his own truncheon.

April 2 1995 Irwell, now ready to go, is turned on the wagon turntable at Marley Hill by Driver Andrew Knott.

Salmon A long bolster wagon (62 foot) first introduced by the LMS in 1929.

Consider moving yourself and saving a mint of money; it can be fun, in a " covered wagon " sort of way.

The first wagon of the freight is an empty coal wagon from the Gaerwen yard.

A wagon tippler emptied the tram wagon tippler emptied the tram wagons into standard gage stock.

Fresh " icing sugar " from the ballast wagon starts to give this panel a more finished look.

If he's looking straight at you instead of the hay wagon, you know he's conscious of the camera.

Hood's army, which he was ordered to hold in check in order to give Thomas time to prepare for battle (see American Civil War, § 32), was unable immediately to cross the Harpeth river and was compelled to entrench his forces south of the town until his wagon trains and artillery could be sent over the stream by means of two small bridges.

After the Civil War the railways gradually destroyed it, the Atchison Topeka & Santa Fe railroad running along the old wagon trail.

According to the legend, Gordium was founded by Gordius, a Phrygian peasant who had been called to the throne by his countrymen in obedience to an oracle of Zeus commanding them to select the first person that rode up to the temple of the god in a wagon.

With a final glance at the approaching figures, she dropped from the wagon seat and sauntered over to join the men at the cook fire.

Or maybe driving the family wagon in for supplies or . . .

We're short handed so you wind up taking care of your own team and wagon.

Of course, even a greenhorn could follow the wagon tracks they would leave in the sand.

She watched for soft areas where a wagon might get stuck.

If one wagon got stuck, the rest would have to stop while one of the other teams was unhitched and added to pull the wagon out.

Since each wagon had three teams of horses, that could become time consuming - and time was their enemy.

Grabbing her canteen and a feed sack, she leaped from the wagon.

Pulling his Winchester from a boot attached to the side of the wagon, he walked toward her.

She slapped her hat back on to hide the color in her cheeks and scrambled onto her wagon seat.

Your concern is touching, but I know I can rely on my friends here in the wagon.

He had guided wagon trains across Indian Territory and battled the Cheyenne.

He let the wagon pull ahead and crossed behind it, speeding up to reach the seat from the other side.

He gave the horse enough room to walk away from the wagon and then tied the rope to the wagon.

You haven't asked me what a woman is doing out here driving a wagon.

Turning it up side down, she slapped it against the side of the wagon wheel.

She peered out from under her wagon and found the smiling face of Bordeaux.

She scrambled from underneath the wagon and hastily threw her blankets under the seat.

Now there's a sight I thought I'd never live to see - someone hitching up your wagon while you're fixin' breakfast.

Bordeaux helped her up on her wagon seat and she smiled down at him.

There was already a sizable gap between her wagon and the one in front of her.

Bordeaux jumped back as her wagon moved to catch up with the others.

That evening, she climbed from her wagon and beat the dust from her clothes with her hat.

She lifted her canteen from the wagon and took a mouthful.

After supper she cleaned up the camp and headed for her wagon.

Grabbing an armful of the hay they had packed around the supplies in each wagon, she dropped it on the sand and the mules eagerly began devouring it.

Pulling her blanket from under the wagon seat, she shook it and checked under the wagon for unwelcome guests.

Are you going to help me into my wagon today?

Bordeaux took her elbow in his hand and ceremoniously led her to the wagon.

But instead of helping her into the wagon in the same gentlemanly manner, he grabbed her by the collar and waistband and dumped her in the front of the wagon.

Why would I want to see more of the same thing I view from this wagon seat all day?

They would find someone to drive the wagon back across the desert.

By the time she reached the wagon, the desert was bathed in moonlight.

She threw her blanket under the wagon.

He watched her for a few minutes while she crawled under the wagon and pulled her blanket around her shoulders, and then he walked away.

She stopped short at the wagon.

He shrugged and offered her a hand up to the wagon seat.

Lifting her into strong arms, he deposited her roughly on the wagon seat.

She picked up the lines and worked her wagon behind the rest.

Cassie, pull your wagon up beside Fritz.

Her rifle was leaning against the wagon, within easy reach, and her whip hung near by.

The pace increased until a horse leaped over the wagon tongue and into the circle.

They each went to their assigned wagon and lit a match, tossing it inside the wagon and moving away from the circle almost in unison.

She lifted her skirts and raced after the wagon.

He did so, and then pointed out the location of where he'd seen people, cars, the two horses and the wagon.

The structure was just under seventy feet long and about twelve feet high; said to be the height designed to accommodate a wagon fully loaded with hay.

Detective Dean might have been on a roll, but his wagon had suddenly come to a stop.

Dean's gear was now being transported by sag wagon like everyone else's.

He asked me to drop off his gear at the sag wagon tomorrow morning so it gets hauled to Alamosa on the truck.

The warrior led her to a wooden wagon, enclosed on all sides except for a small window.

Vara would do as he asked and saw the ends off the poison-tipped arrows, claim she'd fallen ill, and hide her body in the wagon until it was time to act.

Even Alex participated in the last-minute planning, finding a wagon and harnesses.

The sun was casting its last orange rays into the sky when they all loaded onto the wagon and headed into the field.

There are practically no branch roads in Turkestan, and the only means of transport in bulk is either by wagon on the few main roads, or by railway.

Now, however, I see the folly of attempting to hitch one's wagon to a star with harness that does not belong to it.

Sometimes through the monotonous waves of men, like a fleck of white foam on the waves of the Enns, an officer, in a cloak and with a type of face different from that of the men, squeezed his way along; sometimes like a chip of wood whirling in the river, an hussar on foot, an orderly, or a townsman was carried through the waves of infantry; and sometimes like a log floating down the river, an officers' or company's baggage wagon, piled high, leather covered, and hemmed in on all sides, moved across the bridge.

With the soldier, an infantry officer with a bandaged cheek came up to the bonfire, and addressing Tushin asked him to have the guns moved a trifle to let a wagon go past.

Perhaps it was just the Cossack, Likhachev, who was sitting under the wagon, but it might be the kindest, bravest, most wonderful, most splendid man in the world, whom no one knew of.

The mule lurched forward and the others followed, jerking the wagon into action.

I had a video of it but some jerk ripped it off my shopping wagon in Pittsburgh.

She walked slowly around the wagon, admiring his handiwork, and finally glanced up at his face.

Two horses were tied up and there was a wagon and mule at the end of the street.

She obeyed and lowered herself to the floor a moment before the wagon jarred into motion.

They traveled until the wagon grew hot.

Alex joined them as they started serving and later drove his truck down and brought the team and wagon up to the footbridge.