Calashes

The fashionable promenades were all crowded; gay uniforms and brilliant parasols thronged the ramparts; horsemen were cantering along St. Louis Street; priestly processions passed to and from the different churches; numbers of calashes containing pleasure-parties were dashing about; picnic parties were returning from Montmorenci and Lake Charles; groups of vivacious talkers, speaking in the language of France, were at every street-corner; ❋ Unknown (2007)

` ` It seems to me, your excellency, '' remarked the colonel, ` ` that there are no better calashes than those of Vienna. '' ❋ Unknown (1952)

Hay-carts, calashes, buck-boards, and rude specimens of cabs were being driven by French-Canadian habitants along the road. ❋ Maud Ogilvy (N/A)

Parties on horseback and in calashes were formed continually. ❋ Various (N/A)

Through the throng innumerable calashes dashed to and fro, crowded down, in true Neapolitan fashion, with inconceivable numbers; for in Naples the calash is not full unless a score or so are in some way clinging to it -- above, below, before, behind. ❋ James De Mille (N/A)

Swings and merry-go-rounds were scattered all over it, so that the diversions of "_La Era del Mico_," together with the two-wheeled calashes and chaises which were still in use in those days, and the funerals passing continually through the street, were the amusements which were provided ready-made for us, as we looked down from our balcony. ❋ P��o Baroja (1914)

Orders had already been issued, that the army should break up immediately after the funeral, and our calashes were ready. ❋ Unknown (1902)

By the time Almayer had clambered over into the stern sheets, four calashes were in the boat and the oars were being passed over the taffrail. ❋ Unknown (1896)

During one of those occurrences, while they were getting clear, one of the calashes said something to the others in a rapid whisper. ❋ Unknown (1896)

The calashes stretched forward head first and lay back with their faces to the sky, alternately, in a regular swing that sent the boat flying through the water; and the two sitters, very upright in the stern sheets, swayed rhythmically a little at every stroke of the long oars plied vigorously. ❋ Unknown (1896)

Later, about five in the morning, some of my calashes came running to me, yelling that there was a fire ashore. ❋ Joseph Conrad (1890)

At twelve we made the tour of the farm in eight chaises and calashes, horsemen, and footmen, setting out like a picture of Wouverman's. ❋ Walpole, Horace (1890)

Although the squire had no particular fear of the safety of his womankind, he did not choose to confess it after what he had said; and so, without more ado, his wife and daughter were ordered to don their calashes and cloaks. ❋ Paul Leicester Ford (1883)

It could be drawn out over the face by a little green ribbon or "bridle" that was fastened to the extreme front at the top; or it could be pushed in a close-gathered mass on the back of the head These calashes were frequently a foot and a half in diameter, and thus stood well up from the head and did not disarrange the hair nor crush the headdress or cap. ❋ Alice Morse Earle (1881)

As they drew near the steamboat wharf they saw, swarming over a broad square, a market beside which the Bonsecours Market would have shown as common as the Quincy, and up the odd wooden-sidewalked street stretched an aisle of carriages and those high swung calashes, which are to Quebec what the gondolas are to Venice. ❋ William Dean Howells (1878)

At one side of the church there was a booth for the sale of crockery and tin ware; and there was an every-day cheerfulness of small business in the shops and tented stands about the square on which the church faced, and through which there was continual passing of heavy burdens from the port, swift calashes, and slow, country-paced market-carts. ❋ William Dean Howells (1878)

An air of serene disoccupation pervaded the place, with which the occasional riot of the drivers of the long row of calashes and carriages in front of the cathedral did not discord. ❋ William Dean Howells (1878)

Carriages passed him like streaks of light, hired calashes rolled slowly by, and foot-passengers of all nationalities jostled one another. ❋ Jos�� Rizal (1878)

Outside, in gala costume, native or European, Chinese, Spaniards, and Filipinos were moving in all directions, escaping with difficulty the crush of carriages and calashes. ❋ Jos�� Rizal (1878)