He tore off with the
four-wheeled chaise behind him, and Mr.
I was selected for the journey, and at ten o'clock we started, in a light, high-wheeled gig, which ran so easily that after the
four-wheeled cab it seemed like nothing.
"And
four-wheeled cabs--I assure you even at Oxford it's almost impossible to get a
four-wheeled cab."
The greater part of the travellers were aware of this interruption, and, leaving the train, they began to engage such vehicles as the village could provide
four-wheeled palkigharis, waggons drawn by zebus, carriages that looked like perambulating pagodas, palanquins, ponies, and what not.
He was quite tired out with pacing the streets, to say nothing of repeated disappointments, and was sitting down upon a step to rest, when there approached towards him a little clattering jingling
four-wheeled chaise' drawn by a little obstinate-looking rough-coated pony, and driven by a little fat placid-faced old gentleman.
There were quantities of young men and women on bicycles and motor-bicycles, and a majority of gyroscopic motor-cars running bicycle-fashion on two wheels, mingled with old-fashioned
four-wheeled traffic.
He brought back money and toys, at which the widow looked with alarm and jealousy; she asked him always if he had seen any gentleman--"Only old Sir William, who drove him about in the
four-wheeled chaise, and Mr.
{chariot = a light,
four-wheeled carriage with only back seats; ne plus ultra = peak, ultimate}
Before the doors of the public-house at the corner, where the profusion of gas-light reached the height of positive wickedness, a
four-wheeled cab standing by the curbstone with no one on the box, seemed cast out into the gutter on account of irremediable decay.
The peerage contributes more
four-wheeled affliction than has ever been seen in that neighbourhood.
This consisted of a long hammer-headed old horse, formerly used in the business, attached to a
four-wheeled chaise of the same period, which had long been exclusively used by the Harmony Jail poultry as the favourite laying-place of several discreet hens.
Then he rolled a huge stone to the mouth of the cave--so huge that two and twenty strong
four-wheeled waggons would not be enough to draw it from its place against the doorway.