britchka

A tattered top is put on to a britchka, that is all.

Letters of Anton Chekhov

This arrangement greatly pleased the girls, since much more fun went on in the britchka.

Boyhood

Yet, every time that we got in, the mountain of luggage in the britchka seemed to have grown larger than before, and we had much ado to understand how things had been arranged yesterday, and how we should sit now.

Boyhood

In one of them sat Mimi, the two girls, and their maid, with the bailiff, Jakoff, on the box, while in the other — a britchka — sat Woloda, myself, and our servant Vassili.

Boyhood

Taking off my cap, and stooping down in a corner of the britchka, I duly recited my orisons, and unobtrusively signed the sign of the cross beneath my coat.

Boyhood

Hardly had the britchka begun to move when a blinding flash filled the welkin with a blaze of light which brought the horses to their haunches.

Boyhood

The red poll and red face beneath it lifted themselves up for a second from the folds of the rug, measured our britchka with a cold, contemptuous look, and lay down again; whereupon I concluded that the driver was wondering to himself who we were, whence we had come, and whither we were going.

Boyhood

At length, Vassili got up and covered over the britchka, the coachman wrapped himself up in his cloak and lifted his cap to make the sign of the cross at each successive thunderclap, and the horses pricked up their ears and snorted as though to drink in the fresh air which the flying clouds were outdistancing.

Boyhood

Woloda flung back the apron, and I stood up in the britchka to drink in the new, fresh, balm-laden air.

Boyhood

The britchka began to roll more swiftly along the dusty road, and I felt uneasy, and as though the blood were coursing more quickly through my veins.

Boyhood