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  • A heavy, broad-wheeled wagon, looking more like a huge rectangular box, rattled up the rutted Passroad from the di - rection of Hillhome.

    Flint, the King Kirchoff, Mary 2003

  • A heavy, broad-wheeled wagon, looking more like a huge rectangular box, rattled up the rutted Passroad from the di - rection of Hillhome.

    Flint the King Kirchoff, Mary 1990

  • There stood the broad-wheeled wains and the antique ploughs and the harrows;

    Elson Grammar School Literature v4 William H. Elson

  • Following the sturdy caravan of pack-horses, the lumbering coaches, and broad-wheeled wagons of last century came the "fly wagons" in the early years of this century, and with them the possibility of poor people once in a life time getting a few miles from home, in case of absolute necessity.

    Fragments of Two Centuries Glimpses of Country Life when George III. was King Alfred Kingston

  • There were, indeed, behind the General's barns, two or three cocks of oats and barley; but such as an English broad-wheeled waggon would have carried a hundred miles at one time with ease.

    George Washington: Farmer Paul Leland Haworth

  • A small herd of zitidars was driven into the city during the day, and once a caravan of broad-wheeled carts drawn by these huge animals wound out of the distant horizon and came down to the city.

    The Chessmen of Mars 1922

  • A giant zitidar, magnificent in rich harness, rumbled its broad-wheeled cart along the stone pavement toward The Gate of Enemies.

    The Chessmen of Mars 1922

  • There were, indeed, behind the General's barns, two or three cocks of oats and barley; but such as an English broad-wheeled waggon would have carried a hundred miles at one time with ease.

    George Washington Farmer Haworth, Paul L 1915

  • A giant zitidar, magnificent in rich harness, rumbled its broad-wheeled cart along the stone pavement toward The Gate of Enemies.

    The Chessmen of Mars Edgar Rice Burroughs 1912

  • A small herd of zitidars was driven into the city during the day, and once a caravan of broad-wheeled carts drawn by these huge animals wound out of the distant horizon and came down to the city.

    The Chessmen of Mars Edgar Rice Burroughs 1912

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