springless

1 And the way was remarkably rough and the vehicle springless, but it was nevertheless a cushioned ride.

2 Besides the wagon we had another vehicle,—a strange, springless, nondescript contraption knocked together by Andries out of the remains of an old horse-wagon which he had broken up.

3 When under way we could not sit down because of the terrible jolting of the springless car.

4 Telega, the ordinary springless wagon of Russia, smaller than the country wagon in the United States.

5 After a little of this she was disturbed by a thick-set, middle-aged farmer rattling by in a springless cart.

6 There is an old blue easy-chair in the office, dilapidated and springless, in which I have deposited my cranks.

7 These conveyances are springless, and about 9 feet long by 4 feet wide.

8 The carts, which ply for hire like cabs, are massive, springless tumbrils covered with a wain.

9 Tongas cut into her nerves, the stuffy gharry made her head ache, and the springless phaetons which abound in the East she avoided as the plague.

10 They drove in the open springless car in which he had brought down the oaten cake and ale.

11 Bump, bump, bump went the springless governess cart over the lumpy Common, rocking from side to side like a boat in a storm.

12 But life went like a springless bogey, nevertheless.

13 Inured thus, he did not find his ride, embedded with good corn fodder, much of a hardship, even in a springless wagon over mountain roads.

14 The whole machine resembles an American sulky in appearance, except that it is springless, and nearly the whole weight is forward of the axle.

15 My cot was hard and springless as a rock, and when I stretched into a more comfortable position the end bar fell off and the whole structure collapsed, I with it.

16 People preferred to pay two dollars for a berth in a Pullman car, rather than fifty or seventy-five cents for a bunk in the jolting, springless cars.

17 Accordingly, I made ready and in due course the Yamen carriage arrived, a springless, but elegantly upholstered cart, and accompanied by a woman servant we started.

18 It arrived: a springless box on wheels, a hard and narrow seat on each side, the top encased in a heavy roof, with rattling glass windows.

19 The ox-wagons, also springless, are quite comfortable, as the oxen move along smoothly and without jerking.

20 As Patty climbed stiffly to the sidewalk each separate joint and muscle shrieked its aching protest at the fifteen-hour ride in the springless, jolting wagon.

1 无弹性的

dead inelastic nonelastic