Diligences

Continuing thus, I came at length opposite to the inn at which the various diligences and carriages usually stopped. ❋ Unknown (2010)

" The depth of that disgust was clear when he wrote to his friend William Dean Howells about " the author-cat " raking dust over every noisome revelation, " which hides from the disinterested spectator neither it nor its smell . . . the result being that the reader knows the author in spite of his wily diligences. ❋ Edmund Morris (2010)

It was the hour for the departure of the mail-coaches and diligences. ❋ Unknown (2008)

I had only to go away; there are diligences in the Rue Bouloy; you are happy; I am going. ❋ Unknown (2008)

A little generous prudence, a little forbearance of one another, and some grain of charity might win all these diligences to join, and unite in one general and brotherly search after truth; could we but forgo this prelatical tradition of crowding free consciences and ❋ Unknown (2007)

Since the beginning of the summer season he had talked much of a certain large coach, ordered from Farry, Breilmann, and Company, the best makers of diligences, — a purchase necessitated by an increasing influx of travellers. ❋ Unknown (2007)

There is no amusement except in the lumbering diligences of France, that gabbling and indiscreet country, where every one is in a hurry to laugh and show his wit, and where jest and epigram enliven all things, even the poverty of the lower classes and the weightier cares of the solid bourgeois. ❋ Unknown (2007)

These vans, so numerous hereabout, are a respectable, if somewhat lumbering, class of conveyance, much resorted to by decent travellers not overstocked with money, the better among them roughly corresponding to the old French diligences. ❋ Unknown (2006)

And I remember old diligences, and old postilions in pigtails and jack-boots, who were once as alive as I am, and whose cracking whips I have heard in the midnight many and many a time. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Why conductors of diligences should object to such relief to their horses the ordinary Englishman can hardly understand. ❋ Unknown (2004)

The heavy diligences had long ceased to shake the streets; the heavy wagons had ceased to pass, and only open carriages were seen, in which indigenous and exotic beauties under beautiful hats, cast disdainful looks on ugly, and smiling ones on good – looking cavaliers. ❋ Unknown (2004)

“Talking of God and diligences; I saw a hansom yesterday.” ❋ Unknown (2004)

On the hillside a poor devil wandered about with his stick in the midst of the diligences. ❋ Unknown (2003)

“No more have I,” said the boy, “I used to run along by the side of the diligences when I was in Spain.” ❋ Unknown (2003)

And since he held them under holy discipline, he received the reward of his own diligences in finding them so tractable in a most arduous affair. ❋ 1509-1564 (1996)

Throughout this whole tract of country, in the greater part of which travelling is easy and delightful, -- an admirable line of diligences, over one of the finest roads in the world, being established as far as Juiz de Fora, -- the drift may be seen along the roadside, in immediate contact with the native crystalline rock. ❋ Various (N/A)

If we were more huddled than in the less-antiquated Swiss diligences, we had the compensation of far more original fellow-travelers than one is apt to find among the tourists that monopolize those vehicles. ❋ Various (N/A)

[The only] [reason] that she is going to [Harvard] is because she was so diligent. ❋ Zach......... (2004)

As a [lawyer], I always act in due care, diligence and [skill] for the [interest] of my clients. ❋ T. S. Lee (2006)

They were diligent in [the performance] of their [duties] ❋ Laking_YT (2018)

The private [equity] firm hired us to [diligize] the frozen foods company they are thinking of [acquiring]. ❋ Abigayle57 (2012)

Teacher -"[Come to] the front [Naveen] and [show me] your work." Naveen -"But im working very diligently." ❋ Whiotcv123 (2011)

I see john at [the ice] [cream] store everyday, that guy sure is [diligent] ❋ Like Webster (2014)

Laura neglected to perform dude diligence, and Michael spent the entire date explaining how [Ben Bernanke] forged [Barack Obama's] [birth certificate]. ❋ Yet Another Definer (2010)

She was a good hire, [I see] her [over there] [working] like a Diligent Dellinger. ❋ BurntNostalgia (2011)

[Brent] had a [mega] lunch and decided to go to the [third floor] to do his doo diligence. ❋ Beardedglory (2014)

Chuck: Dude, I just saw Rick [macking] with Kate at the mall. I thought Kate was still with Tommy. Sean: Hey man, it’s cool. I heard that Rick [broke it] off with Kate and he [cleared] Tommy to date Kate, so Tommy did his dude diligence. ❋ The Comand'r (2013)