tilbury

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Earlscourt was excessively distant to me after seeing my tilbury at her door; no doubt he thought it strange for me to have continued my intimacy with a woman who had wronged him so bitterly.

From Beatrice Boville and Other Stories by Ouida

After five minutes had gone by, he noticed that there at his left, at the very foot of the tilbury, was the fortune teller's house,—the very same as Rita had once consulted.

From Brazilian Tales by Goldberg, Isaac

There's a rug in my tilbury, if we can only reach it.

From The Adventures of Harry Revel by Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, Sir

With which consolatory reflection the Major rose, stretched himself, yawned, sighed, stroked his moustache, fitted on his lavender gloves, and rang to order his tilbury round.

From Beatrice Boville and Other Stories by Ouida

Let no one imagine that a patache bears that relation to a cabriolet which a dennet does to a tilbury; for ours, at least, would in England have been called a very sorry higgler's cart.

From Itinerary of Provence and the Rhone Made During the Year 1819 by Hughes, John