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  • Pollio asked Maecenas as they traveled up the Via Appia in a four-mule gig.

    Antony and Cleopatra Colleen McCullough 2007

  • Pollio asked Maecenas as they traveled up the Via Appia in a four-mule gig.

    Antony and Cleopatra Colleen McCullough 2007

  • From Brundisium he traveled up the Via Appia for Rome at a gallop in a four-mule gig, swerving onto the Via Latina at Teanum Sidicinum to avoid the ague-riddled Pomptine Marshes.

    Antony and Cleopatra Colleen McCullough 2007

  • From Brundisium he traveled up the Via Appia for Rome at a gallop in a four-mule gig, swerving onto the Via Latina at Teanum Sidicinum to avoid the ague-riddled Pomptine Marshes.

    Antony and Cleopatra Colleen McCullough 2007

  • General Grierson and Captain Alvord cantered alongside on two very lean horses, while General Hazen and Mr. R-- -- - invited me into their four-mule ambulance.

    Notes Among the Indians 1995

  • But there never is a rest, thought Sulla, galloping to Rome in a four-mule gig.

    The Grass Crown McCullough, Colleen, 1937- 1991

  • Thus it was that one long summer hour later a four-mule gig carried Gaius Marius, Young Caesar, and Lucius Decumius out of Rome through the Esquiline Gate.

    The Grass Crown McCullough, Colleen, 1937- 1991

  • Meminius gave him two gigs harnessed to four-mule teams, and sent him on his way with food and drivers.

    The First Man in Rome McCullough, Colleen, 1937- 1990

  • For this purpose he supplied me with a four-mule ambulance and driver.

    Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals David Widger

  • There was a road leading to the town some eight miles inland, and four-mule ambulances dashed up and down this.

    A Woman's Impression of the Philippines Mary Helen Fee

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