tilbury

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Tall bushes of laurel on either hand glinted back the lights of the tilbury, and presently around a sweep of the drive I saw a window shining.

From The Adventures of Harry Revel 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

Once, as she sat singing on an old stile, and knitting a stocking, a rough sort of gentleman, driving by in his neat little tilbury, stopped and listened to Ratie's song.

From The Freedmen's Book by Child, Lydia Maria Francis

He drove up in his tilbury, and said he was on his way to Plymouth.

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

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 Reeve, Henry