Pending the return of the motor-omnibuses, a service of _char-a-bancs_ has been started on the boulevards, which reminds Parisians of the days of the popular "Madeleine-Bastille" omnibus. ❋ Charles Inman Barnard (N/A)
From its summit they could see toy villages and church, spires and motors and char-a-bancs running like alarmed insects along the white, winding lanes. ❋ Unknown (1922)
Ghibellines, though the two towns are at advertisemental war, the favourite pleasure drive of the char-a-bancs of Sandbourne is to ❋ Unknown (1907)
It was past noon, and they were already returning, when they came on the char-a-bancs containing the head of the strike-breaking column. ❋ John Galsworthy (1900)
Shops were shut; special trains ran in to Grammoch-town; and the road from the little town was dazed with char-a-bancs, brakes, wagonettes, carriages, carts, foot-passengers, wending toward the Dalesman's Daughter. ❋ Alfred Ollivant (1900)
And, as it happened, just then the stillness was sensibly broken up, and the magic of the night encroached upon by the passing of a couple of _char-a-bancs_ in the road below, loaded up with trippers faring homewards from a day's outing at Hampton Court. ❋ Lucas Malet (1891)
And at last Sister Hyacinthe was able to install herself with Elise Rouquet and Sophie Couteau in a large _char-a-bancs_, in which Ferrand and ❋ ��mile Zola (1871)
And at last Sister Hyacinthe was able to install herself with Elise Rouquet and Sophie Couteau in a large/char-a-bancs/, in which Ferrand and ❋ ��mile Zola (1871)
The Queen, who was dressed simply, as usual, in a purple satin gown, a black mantilla trimmed with lace, and a straw bonnet with straw-coloured ribands and one ostrich feather, immediately entered the King's char-a-bancs, which had a canopy and curtains that were left open. ❋ Sarah Tytler (1870)
Guest withdrew his eyes and gazed at the other figures in the char-a-bancs without moving a muscle. ❋ Bret Harte (1869)
They passed him at a rapid trot, but the next moment the char-a-bancs was suddenly pulled up. ❋ Bret Harte (1869)
Raymond, and Garnier were there; Amita and Dorotea in the body of the char-a-bancs, and Maruja seated on the box. ❋ Bret Harte (1869)
The sound of carriage-wheels on the gravel terrace brought with it voices and laughter and the swiftly passing vision of a char-a-bancs filled with muffled figures bending low to avoid the direct advances of the sun. ❋ Bret Harte (1869)
It was a pleasure party of ladies and gentlemen on horseback and in a four-horsed char-a-bancs returning to La Mision Perdida. ❋ Bret Harte (1869)
He walked on more hurriedly as if to escape them, and was glad to be diverted by one or two carryalls and char-a-bancs filled with gayly dressed pleasure parties -- evidently visitors to Hymettus -- which passed him on the road. ❋ Bret Harte (1869)
Then there were tramps of various kinds: a Punch and Judy show on the march; swift silent bicyclists who sped past in a flurry of dust; local gentry riding cock-horses (no doubt to Banbury Crosses); local gentry in dogcarts; local gentry in closed carriages going to a funeral, and apparently (as seen through the windows) very hot and mournful and perspiring; an antique clergyman in an antique gig who gave me a tract and warned me against drink; a char-a-bancs filled to bursting with the True Blue Constitutional Club of East ❋ Lloyd Osbourne (1907)
