tilbury
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Then, he rode splendidly, and drove a tilbury or drag and four with an ease only seen in Sarrio among coachmen.
From The Fourth Estate, vol.1 by Armando Palacio Vald?s
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 Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
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 Henry Reeve
To enter London in his tilbury, beaver skin gloves.
From The Gentlemen's Book of Etiquette and Manual of Politeness Being a Complete Guide for a Gentleman's Conduct in all his Relations Towards Society by Cecil B. Hartley
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 John Hughes
Curricles, tandems, tilburies, and dennets were constantly arriving and departing.
From Jack Hinton The Guardsman by Charles James Lever
Landaus, barouches, or tilburies, there were none in those simple days.
From Old Mortality, Volume 1. by Sir Walter Scott
Suffice it, there they all were to criticise us, and pretty sharply I dare say they did it, when they were out of our hearing, in their respective clarences, broughams, dog-carts, drags, tilburies, and hansoms.
From Beatrice Boville and Other Stories by Ouida
