"Handcart" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... children screamed,—and ran towards the Cathedral pellmell; and for a few moments there ensued indescribable confusion, the priests, the people, and the white-veiled girls getting mixed together in a wild hurly- burly. Sergius Thord suddenly left his companion's side, and springing on a small handcart that stood empty near the centre of the square, his tall figure rose up all at once like a dark apparition above the heads of the assembled crowd, and his voice, strong, clear, and vibrating with passion, ...
— Temporal Power • Marie Corelli
... that has bewildered all three? A pedlar's cart, a handcart; they had seen it stop in ...
— Child Life In Town And Country - 1909 • Anatole France
... brow of the road from Colchester attracted her attention. It was a handcart, pushed by a labourer and by Police Inspector Keeble, whom she liked. Following the handcart over the brow came a loose procession of villagers, which included no children, because the children were in school. Except on a Sunday Audrey had never before seen a procession of villagers, ...
— The Lion's Share • E. Arnold Bennett
... and Asa Chick and the handcart soon led the way riverward through the pleasant old-fashioned streets of Riverport. Her new friend pointed out one or two landmarks as they hurried along, for, strange to say, although a sea-captain, he was not sure whether the tide turned at half past two or at half past ...
— Betty Leicester - A Story For Girls • Sarah Orne Jewett
... charred body of a civilian was found in a butcher's shop, and in a handcart twenty yards away was the dead body ...
— New York Times Current History; The European War, Vol 2, No. 3, June, 1915 - April-September, 1915 • Various |
