curricle

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"With all my heart," replied Menyhert, glad to change the subject, and speculating on the handsome curricle and four which Uncle Gabor would give his daughter on her marriage.

From Hungarian Sketches in Peace and War Constable's Miscellany of Foreign Literature, vol. 1 by Jókai, Mór

Mr. Knightly rides from Brunswick Square to Hartfield, by a road that Miss Austen herself must have travelled in the curricle with her brother, driving to London on a summer's day.

From A Book of Sibyls Miss Barbauld, Miss Edgeworth, Mrs Opie, Miss Austen by Ritchie, Anne Thackeray

"Well I'm—darned," exploded the groom, and turned to fetch the curricle.

From The Black Moth A Romance of the XVIIIth Century by Heyer, Georgette

Neither of us being inclined to mount the curricle again, Miss Mortimer proposed that we should walk home, and send an apology to our party.

From Discipline by Brunton, Mary

Sir John whispered to me that she had entreated her mother to keep Celia out of the way till this curricle business was a little got out of her head.

From Coelebs In Search of a Wife by More, Hannah