voiture
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Here’s Pierre Rolland celebrating as he overtakes Stefan Küng in a time trial ... never mind the fact that he’s en voiture -
From The Guardian ● Jul. 17, 2021
Already astounded by the miracle of their first train trip and a ride through Toronto in a "voiture," the four-year-olds* faced royalty calmly enough.
From Time Magazine Archive
This was the voiture with which they conveyed themselves quite down to the sea, and one of these boats it was that we spied, as above, coming to us in the bay.
From A New Voyage Round the World by a Course Never Sailed Before by Daniel Defoe
She laughed gleefully, and affected to move away from him, only, at that instant, the hind wheel of the voiture struck a stray bowlder, and the shock threw her bodily back against him.
From Mlle. Fouchette A Novel of French Life by Charles Theodore Murray
As the voiture rumbles by near a street-light, you catch a glimpse of a pink silk petticoat within and a pair of dainty, white kid shoes—and the glint of an officer’s sword.
From The Real Latin Quarter by F. Berkeley (Frank Berkeley) Smith
A line of voitures extended down one side, every one of which was quickened into life at our approach.
From An American Girl Abroad by Adeline Trafton
Around on every side of me stood the various carriages and voitures of the hotel and its inmates, to the full as distinctive and peculiar in character as their owners.
From The Confessions of Harry Lorrequer — Volume 3 by Charles James Lever
It possesses five thousand cabs and over two thousand handsome and stylish voitures de remise.
From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 102, June, 1876 by Various
Two voitures were drawn up by the roadside, as well as several light carts, with high wheels and tilts made of rushes or cloth, conveying goods to and fro between Cagliari and Sassari.
From Rambles in the Islands of Corsica and Sardinia with Notices of their History, Antiquities, and Present Condition. by Thomas Forester
About six o'clock the next morning two voitures cellulaires drove up, each attended by a light carriage containing an especial agent sent by the police.
From France in the Nineteenth Century by Elizabeth Latimer
