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Usage examples of "waggons".
Other waggons held drag-chains, crooked-sponges, relievers, bricoles, wad-hooks, sabot-bracers, and hand-spikes.
But at that hour I saw in his arrestation, the finger of God, for now there was nobody but me to take the waggons through the country.
Once, on the farm, I had three young bulls transmuted into peaceful bullocks for my ploughs and waggons, and afterwards shut up in the factory yard.
Behind the waggons were the infantry, and behind the infantry the two carriages that had their windows and curtains tight closed against the cold.
Dead and wounded horses lay in the fields, dropped by rifle-fire, and their surviving riders had fled to the safety of the waggons that offered some small shelter from the bullets.
In front of the waggons a rabble of infantry was being shaken into line and Sharpe's Marines, coming from the smoke with muskets tipped with bayonets, charged them.
A few survivors still clung to the waggons, some died from bayonet thrusts, but most were being taken prisoner.
The waggons were otherwise abandoned and Sharpe guessed their drivers, with other fugitives, had fled into the beech woods.
There were garlands for the stacking of round-shot and even band instruments including a Jingling Johnny that a proud Marine paraded about the stripped waggons and shook so that the tiny bells mounted on the wooden frame made a strangely festive sound in the bleak, cold day.
That's how we beat the French out of Spain, Captain, not just by hammering the bastards in battle, but because half their armies were guarding waggons against Spanish peasants.
In the evening I walked out to meet the procession that came back, the tired oxen hanging their heads in front of the empty waggons, with a tired little Toto leading them, and the weary drivers trailing their whips in the dust of the road.
They had to hold the loaded waggons up with their bodies, they laid their heads back under the labour until their horns touched the hump on their backs.
And in the early morning, while the old constellations of the stars were still out, we set off down the long endless Kijabe Hill, with the great plains of the Masai Reserve, — iron-grey in the faint light of the dawn, — spread at our feet, with lamps tied under the waggons, swinging, and with much shouting and cracking of whips.
I had four waggons, with a full team of sixteen oxen to each, and five spare oxen, and with me twenty-one young Kikuyus and three Somalis: Farah, Ismail, the gun-bearer, and an old cook also named Ismail, a very noble old man.
On the high-road, where they had sat, and where the waggons and carts had passed, and had driven over them, now, after the swarm had gone, the wheel-tracks were marked, like rails of a railway, as long as you could see them, with little bodies of dead grasshoppers.