dust-compelling

Updated: May 8, 2025

The well-to-do rode on horseback, and in some places post chaises with relays of horses every ten or twenty miles could be obtained. What would the ghosts of such travelers say to-day, should they stumble on a Pullman car or a dust-compelling devil wagon? Our very expressions of speech are modeled on the common, every-day things of life.

C. G. (Charles Gilbert) Hine - The New York and Albany Post Road: From Kings Bridge to "The Ferry at Crawlier, over against: Albany," Being an Account of a Jaunt on Foot Made at Sundry: Convenient Times between May and November, Nineteen Hundred: and Five