tilbury

Example Sentences

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Then he went to the Conservatoire in a tilbury which he ordinarily drove himself.

From My Recollections by Massenet, Jules

It belonged to a Mr. Jack Rogers, a rory-tory young squire and justice of the peace of our neighbourhood, and the lamps must be those of his famous light tilbury.

From Poison Island by Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, Sir

You'll admit that this was reasonable when you've seen 'em, for I brought the suit along in the tail of the tilbury.

From Poison Island by Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, Sir

Once, as she sat singing on an old stile, and knitting a stocking, a rough sort of gentleman, driving by in his neat little tilbury, stopped and listened to Ratie's song.

From The Freedmen's Book by Child, Lydia Maria Francis

But at once he rejected the idea, angry with himself, and hastened his step towards Carioca square, there to take a tilbury.

From Brazilian Tales by Goldberg, Isaac