prad

NOTE: Roughly, "If they have no prad let them eat cake..."

Archive 2008-07-20 de Brantigny........................ 2008

NOTE: Roughly, "If they have no prad let them eat cake..."

Pain de Brioche de Brantigny........................ 2008

They rolled him in a blanket and strapped him to his prad

The Streets of Forbes (2) 2000

With his lordship, like another great commander, "Once to be in doubt, was once to be resolved:" it would never do to go to the wars on a ricketty prad.

Half-Hours with Great Story-Tellers Various

With his pops, and high-bred prad which brought to him renown; [2]

Musa Pedestris - Three Centuries of Canting Songs and Slang Rhymes [1536 - 1896] John S. Farmer

Melton was then unknown to fame, but, as if inspired by that _furor venaticus_ which now inspires all who come within twenty miles of this Charybdis of the chase, Bess here _let out_ in a style with which it would have puzzled the best Leicestershire squire's best prad to have kept pace.

Rookwood William Harrison Ainsworth 1843

'Just send somebody out to relieve my mate, will you, young man?' said the officer; 'he's in the gig, a-minding the prad.

Oliver Twist Charles Dickens 1841

How can a cove stand talking in the street with his master's prad a wanting to be took to be rubbed down, and his master up to every individgle thing that happens! '

Dombey and Son Charles Dickens 1841

This number being a trifle, Tom runs his prad at a gap in the fence by the wood-side; the old nag goes well at it, but stops short at the critical moment, and, instead of taking the ditch, bolts and wheels round.

Jorrocks' Jaunts and Jollities Robert Smith Surtees 1833

The man in the front, whose Jew-looking appearance attracted attention, was endeavouring to increase the speed of the conveyance by belabouring the boney rump of the _prad_ {1} with his hat, while some of their pedestrian

Real Life In London, Volumes I. and II. Or, The Rambles And Adventures Of Bob Tallyho, Esq., And His Cousin, The Hon. Tom Dashall, Through The Metropolis; Exhibiting A Living Picture Of Fashionable Characters, Manners, And Amusements In High And Low Life (1821) John Badcock 1823