Stanhope

Word STANHOPE
Character 8
Hyphenation stan hope
Pronunciations N/A

Definitions and meanings of "Stanhope"

What do we mean by stanhope?

A light, open, horse-drawn carriage with one seat and two or four wheels. noun

A light two-wheeled carriage without a top. noun

A light two-wheeled, or sometimes four-wheeled, carriage, without a top; -- so called from Lord Stanhope, for whom it was contrived. noun

A gig, buggy or light phaeton, typically with a high seat and closed back. noun

A light open horse-drawn carriage with two or four wheels and one seat noun

A gig, buggy or light phaeton, typically with a high seat and closed back.

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The word "stanhope" in example sentences

The vehicle was not exactly a gig, neither was it a stanhope. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Flasher, Esquire, was at Brixton, Surrey; the horse and stanhope of ❋ Unknown (2007)

When the carriages met again, he stood up in his stanhope; he raised his hand ready to doff his hat; he looked with all his eyes. ❋ Unknown (2006)

We had engaged a very nice mare and stanhope, which we knew we could depend upon, when, the day before the race, the chestnut was declared lame, and not a presentable four-legged animal was to be hired in ❋ Various (N/A)

The stanhope is all to atoms, and the farmer claims compensation for the gate. ❋ Various (N/A)

Away she went, harness, shafts, and all, leaving the stanhope in the ditch, and sending Jack and me flying, like experimental fifty-sixes in the marshes at Woolwich, halfway across the meadow. ❋ Various (N/A)

He hurried me into the stanhope, gave the rein to his active grey mare, and making a detour towards Kingston, we soon left the crowd behind us. ❋ Various (N/A)

But let us get on to the next inn, and send people after the stanhope and the mare. ❋ Various (N/A)

One day in the ring, Rawdon’s stanhope came in sight; Rebecca was seated by him. ❋ Unknown (1917)

Before the inn there stood a yellow-wheeled stanhope with a horse which, from his manner of trembling all over for no conceivable reason, and manifest desire to stand upon his hind legs, I conceived to be a thorough-bred; and, hanging grimly to the bridle, now in the air, now on terra firma, alternately coaxing and cursing, was my friend the Semi-quavering Ostler. ❋ Jeffery Farnol (1915)

She was leaning back in the comfortably rounded corner of the stanhope, her hands lax in her lap, her eyes often closed -- a tired child of peace drinking in the peace furnished by the military, was Ann. It was plain that Ann.was one who could drink things in, could draw beauty to her as something which was of her, something, too, it seemed, of which she had been long in need. ❋ Susan Glaspell (1915)

Timothy is off to-day; I will harness the grays to the stanhope, as we can't wait to send to the stable, and we will drive over the back way by the Ridge and be home again by dinner time. ❋ Mabel Osgood Wright (1896)

Timothy Saunders, who had by that time brought round the horses in the stanhope, ventured the opinion that they might be below, paddling in the duck pond, as all the village children gathered there at the first warm weather, "jest fer all the world like gnats the sun's drawd oot." ❋ Mabel Osgood Wright (1896)

I hear the small hoofs of Thalaba; my stanhope waits; we will leave this half bottle of champagne, that "remainder biscuit," and the echoes of our philosophy to the Naiads who have lent us their drawing-room. ❋ Unknown (1886)

A few days after Ethelberta's reception at Enckworth, an improved stanhope, driven by Lord Mountclere himself, climbed up the hill until it was opposite her door. ❋ Thomas Hardy (1884)

Whether he was reading in the library -- where there was an admirable collection of books of worth -- or walking over the home-farms, or driving in his smart stanhope with the coachman behind, or sitting in formal costume and dignity opposite his beautiful wife at the dinner-table, the sense of what was expected of him was there, steadying and restraining, like an atmospheric pressure. ❋ Harold Frederic (1877)

He strolled indoors, after a little, and told his man to pack a bag for London, and order the stanhope to take him to the train. ❋ Harold Frederic (1877)

I discovered, what might have struck me before, that the initials on the panel of the stanhope and the handle of the whip had been compared with the card pasted in the bottom of my hat, and the want of correspondence was taken as decided corroboration. ❋ Unknown (1853)

The power of the horse was added to my consciousness of enjoyment, and if you can imagine a centaur with a harness and stanhope added to his living body, I felt the triple enjoyment of animal exercise which would then be his. ❋ Unknown (1853)

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