wagon
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As conspicuously ill as many horses were, streetcar companies and wagon drivers had financial incentives to keep them working.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 7, 2026
“If you can hitch your wagon to his horse,” Manson said, “who cares how long it takes?”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026
Photos shared on social media show several people aboard the wagon while emergency services attend to a child sat on the floor.
From BBC ● Jun. 14, 2026
For the journey, he is driving a ’64 Chevy Impala station wagon with a GPS unit inside so that armchair travelers can follow his journey on the web.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 6, 2026
Reaching around me, he places them inside the wagon.
From "Will’s Race for Home" by Jewell Parker Rhodes
It would be easy to look at all of this — the card tables, homemade jingles, wagons stacked with brightly colored boxes — and see only an exceptionally cute American ritual.
From Salon ● Aug. 28, 2026
The locomotive was pulling the wagons from Milford Haven, Pembrokeshire, to Theale, near Reading, when the derailment occurred.
From BBC ● Aug. 24, 2026
On the worst grades, wagons were lifted and lowered by pulley and rope.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 1, 2026
AFP journalists saw long lines of police wagons, horse patrols, barbed wire around government buildings, and large numbers of plainclothes officers.
From Barron's ● Jun. 25, 2026
To their surprise, when they got there they found dozens of people already waiting outside, as well as a steady stream of horses and wagons arriving.
From "Votes for Women!" by Winifred Conkling
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Cormac McCarthy's "The Road"
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