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  • The carriage drew up under the porte-cocher of a mansion built of cobble-stones.

    The Colossus A Novel Opie Percival Read 1895

  • I will try how far money will carry a man, had he said to himself, a few days previous to this night's entertainment, just as he was entering the porte-cocher of the residence of Mr. Squib, who is the Stultze of Paris.

    Paris Lions and London Tigers 1825

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