curricle

Example Sentences

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Mr. Knightly rides from Brunswick Square to Hartfield, by a road that Miss Austen herself must have travelled in the curricle with her brother, driving to London on a summer's day.

From A Book of Sibyls Miss Barbauld, Miss Edgeworth, Mrs Opie, Miss Austen by Ritchie, Anne Thackeray

"I can drive her home in my curricle: if we set off at five in the morning, we can perform the journey with ease before dark."

From A Wife's Duty A Tale by Opie, Amelia Alderson

Sir John whispered to me that she had entreated her mother to keep Celia out of the way till this curricle business was a little got out of her head.

From Coelebs In Search of a Wife by More, Hannah

There were several torches about the painted gate in the wall and the light shone on a group alighting from a curricle.

From Saul of Tarsus A Tale of the Early Christians by Miller, Elizabeth

This was a four-wheeled carriage, a sort of curricle, and adapted to the carriage of about half a ton of luggage. 

From Old Roads and New Roads by Donne, William Bodham