tilbury
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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 Isaac Goldberg
The Regent drives in the Park every day in a tilbury, with his groom sitting by his side; grave men are shocked at this undignified practice.
From The Greville Memoirs A Journal of the Reigns of King George IV and King William IV, Vol. I by Henry Reeve
When they had come almost to the end of Guarda-Velha street the tilbury had to come to a stop; the thoroughfare was blocked by a coach that had broken down.
From Brazilian Tales by Isaac Goldberg
Here's a fine stud of horses, which, strange though it sounds, Live neither on corn nor on hay; A gentleman's carriage, and tilbury, too, For which we've no taxes to pay.
From The Wonders of a Toy Shop by Anonymous
During that time they received two visits from Pablito and Piscis; once they came in the tilbury, and once on horseback.
From The Fourth Estate, vol.1 by Armando Palacio Vald?s
Suffice it, there they all were to criticise us, and pretty sharply I dare say they did it, when they were out of our hearing, in their respective clarences, broughams, dog-carts, drags, tilburies, and hansoms.
From Beatrice Boville and Other Stories by Ouida
Landaus, barouches, or tilburies, there were none in those simple days.
From Old Mortality, Volume 1. by Sir Walter Scott
Curricles, tandems, tilburies, and dennets were constantly arriving and departing.
From Jack Hinton The Guardsman by Charles James Lever
