horse-bus

Men drove cars now to the same tick as the old horse-bus and hansom-cab drivers had driven their slipping, sliding, clattering gees.

Over the River 2004

A taxi conjures up visions too wonderful to contemplate; but even with the humble horse-bus I feel that I should now be able to afford a piano, or whatever it is the multi-millionaire munition-man buys without a quiver.

No Man's Land 1912

Twice as the horse-bus slowly wended its way up the steep hill the door at the rear opened and slammed.

Best Short Stories Thomas L. Masson 1900

The motor-bus which carried Pollyooly home crawled, to her impatient fancy, no faster than the old horse-bus, so eager was she to pour the news of her success into the ears of Millicent.

Happy Pollyooly The Rich Little Poor Girl Edgar Jepson 1900

A horse-bus, dug up out of the past, jogs along the most famous boulevard in the world like a country diligence, with a fat, laughing peasant-woman clinging to its back-step and collecting fare-moneys into the immense pocket of her black apron.

Over There War Scenes on the Western Front Arnold Bennett 1899