tilbury

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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

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

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 Palacio Vald?s, Armando

I heard him hastily packing his modest wardrobe; and in fifteen minutes a tilbury had whirled him away—whither, Heaven only knows.

From Trifles for the Christmas Holidays by Armstrong, H. S.

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