fourgon

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Why add to your carpet-bag of troubles the contents of a lady's imperials and bonnet-boxes, and the travelling fourgon required by the nursery?

From Kenelm Chillingly — Complete by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron

We found Daddy in the fourgon with the baggages, writing a story and laughing—making an awful row.'

From A Prisoner in Fairyland by Blackwood, Algernon

Give the bearer of this my dressing-case, and clothes for some days, and have the fourgon ready packed to start for Tubbermore on receiving my next orders.

From Roland Cashel Volume I (of II) by Lever, Charles James

A hunting fourgon, drawn by two horses driven tandem, served as a funeral-car for a magnificent stag reposing upon a bed of green branches, with his enormous antlers adorned with long floating ribbons.

From The Seven Cardinal Sins: Envy and Indolence by Sue, Eug?ne

After a short time we were benefited by the appearance of the cooks and scullions, who passed in a fourgon, that contained the remnants and the utensils.

From A Residence in France With an Excursion Up the Rhine, and a Second Visit to Switzerland by Cooper, James Fenimore