tilbury

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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

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

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

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

"You got it for once, Goodwood," laughed Carruthers, as they drove away in his tilbury.

From Cecil Castlemaine's Gage, Lady Marabout's Troubles, and Other Stories by Ouida