char-a-banc

Upper Sandgate Road or hidden from us by traffic; the char-a-banc, however, with its people now all alive and stirring, was clattering along at a spanking pace almost abreast of the nearer church.

Twelve Stories and a Dream, by H. G. Wells Herbert George 2006

The tops of the wheels and some of the legs of the horses of this char-a-banc, the end of the whip-lash and the lower jaw of the conductor — who was just beginning to yawn — were perceptibly in motion, but all the rest of the lumbering conveyance seemed still.

Twelve Stories and a Dream, by H. G. Wells Herbert George 2006

An immovable cyclist, head down and with a frozen puff of dust behind his driving-wheel, scorched to overtake a galloping char-a-banc that did not stir.

Twelve Stories and a Dream, by H. G. Wells Herbert George 2006

And then the old char-a-banc clattered up to the door, and

Tales of all countries 2004

He inquired how his queer friend with the young wife was, and running his eyes over the ill-matched horses and the carriage with its patched mud-guards, proposed to the ladies that they should get into the char-a-banc.

Anna Karenina 2003

Darya Alexandrovna went up to the char-a-banc and coldly greeted

Anna Karenina 2003

“See what a turn-out!” he said, pointing to four persons on horseback, and two in a char-a-banc, coming along the road.

Anna Karenina 2003

Sviazhsky and Princess Varvara in a new char-a-banc with a big, raven-black trotting horse, overtook the party on horseback.

Anna Karenina 2003

They were Vronsky with a jockey, Veslovsky and Anna on horseback, and Princess Varvara and Sviazhsky in the char-a-banc.

Anna Karenina 2003

Half of the tram is open to the air at the sides, like a char-a-banc; and when we travelled by it a little party of Germans were enjoying an

A War-time Journal, Germany 1914 and German Travel Notes Harriet Julia Campbell Jephson