waggons

The fortunate people who had motor cars were travelling down the road, surrounded by people in waggons, in wheelbarrows, with their goods and chattels, hurrying away from the invaders coming in from the east.

Canada At War 1940

I knew the front of the 72nd Regiment in waggons would reach me in a day or two.

The Autobiography of Liuetenant-General Sir Harry Smith, Baronet of Aliwal on the Sutlej, G. C. B. 1903

One half of the 72nd Regiment was to proceed in waggons, the other by sea.

The Autobiography of Liuetenant-General Sir Harry Smith, Baronet of Aliwal on the Sutlej, G. C. B. 1903

General Jackson conducted the retreat into Virginia, and suffered only a slight loss in waggons and artillery, and 300 wounded men.

Foreign and Colonial News: America 1862

Behind the waggons were the infantry, and behind the infantry the two carriages that had their windows and curtains tight closed against the cold.

Sharpe's Siege Cornwell, Bernard 1987

On the other side, the waggons were a sight; shattered, and torn, and wrecked with shot; many of them burnt; several, huge as they are, flung upside down by the force of a shell bursting beneath them.

With Rimington L. March Phillipps

In front of the waggons is a large, flat, open space, backed by bold rising ground with jutting crags and dotted clumps of luxuriant vegetation.

Cetywayo and his White Neighbours Remarks on Recent Events in Zululand, Natal, and the Transvaal Henry Rider Haggard 1890

Alongside the waggons was a single large brown tent that for luxuriousness might have been the envy of all Gypsydom.

Aylwin Theodore Watts-Dunton 1873

The fighting men are all on the top of the hill, and between them and the waggons are their ponies.

With Buller in Natal, Or, a Born Leader 1867

When our travellers first took up their night's lodgings in the waggons, they found their resting-places hard, after sleeping in comfortable beds at Cape Town; but now, after having passed their nights in the wide desert, their mattresses in the waggons were a luxury that was fully appreciated.

The Mission; or Scenes in Africa Frederick Marryat 1820