pair-horse

I arrived at King City over-night, and my old school pal, who had asked me to pay him a visit, met me at the Central Saloon early next morning -- so early, that we had breakfasted and were off in a pair-horse buckboard by seven o'clock.

Adventures in Many Lands Various

Candidates are constantly occupied in driving all over the borough in pair-horse carriages, lavishly decorated with the party colours, orange for the Liberals, blue for the Conservatives.

Punch, Or The London Charivari, Volume 102, July 2, 1892 Various

At noon on the day of the race the horses and carriages were taken to the course; at five and twenty minutes to one Lord Lonsdale drove up in a pair-horse brougham; at one o'clock to the second he trotted his single horse, War Paint, to the starting-point, and War Paint bounded down the road.

Highways and Byways in Surrey Eric Parker 1912

The pair-horse was waiting with Blue and Yellow, two Americans, in it; the change took three seconds, and Blue and Yellow galloped back to the start in 12 minutes 51-2/5 seconds.

Highways and Byways in Surrey Eric Parker 1912

Joshua happened to be coming out of his father's workshop just as Mr. Grand was passing, driving the neat pair-horse phaeton he had lately bought.

The World's Greatest Books — Volume 06 — Fiction Various 1909

Bostock's pair-horse van arrived before the garden gate earlier than her worse fears had anticipated, and Bostock's men were evidently in a tremendous hurry that morning.

The Grim Smile of the Five Towns Arnold Bennett 1899

Just then the racket was distracting, a pair-horse trolly lightly loaded with loose rods of iron passing slowly very near us.

Chance A Tale in Two Parts Joseph Conrad 1890

Although the weather was bitterly cold, Mr. Wodehouse, my father, myself, a couple of Mr. Wodehouse's servants, and a young fellow who had been connected, I think, with a Paris banking-house, travelled in an open pair-horse break.

My Days of Adventure The Fall of France, 1870-71 Ernest Alfred Vizetelly 1887

Archbishop Harcourt never went from Bishopthorpe to York Minster except attended by his chaplains, in a coach and six, while Lady Anne was made to follow in a pair-horse carriage, to show her that her position was not the same thing among women that her husband's was among men.

Collections and Recollections George William Erskine Russell 1886

There they made us kindly welcome, did all they could for him, and transhipped the hammock into a pair-horse dray, which went quicker and was easier.

Station Amusements 1871