tilbury

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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

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

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

And M. de Faverges sprang lightly into his tilbury.

From Bouvard and Pécuchet A Tragi-comic Novel of Bourgeois Life by Flaubert, Gustave

Coming down from the fort, I was happy enough to encounter Captain Doyle, driving a right London-appointed tilbury.

From Impressions of America During The Years 1833, 1834, and 1835. In Two Volumes, Volume II. by Power, Tyrone