Surreys

Cowboys and farmers sing of love and surreys with the fringe on top in the landmark Rodgers and Hammerstein musical. ❋ Unknown (2010)

I can recall what a faraway place it seemed: all that sunshine and square dancing and surreys with fringe on top. ❋ Unknown (2001)

Page 34down to the farm because he had one of those little surreys, and he had a walking horse. ❋ Unknown (1998)

Then we came to a garage filled with twenty-six carriages, wagons, and vehicles—brogans, surreys, phaetons, an old Conestoga covered wagon, a few beat-up cars, a rusty Chevy pickup. ❋ Jeannette Walls (1994)

My father was born in Canada. 1 And he was a fine vehicle manufacturer: made Victorias and surreys and all that for the rich people. ❋ Unknown (1976)

But the old Neds and Nellies of the town, accustomed leisurely to transport their various family surreys, did not metamorphose into hackneys of such spirit and dash as filled Tess's dreams. ❋ Dana Gatlin (N/A)

We went in hacks, surreys and stage-coaches, wagons, horseback, and all sorts er ways. ❋ Work Projects Administration (N/A)

Carolina picture with the covered wagons, the topped buggies, surreys and saddle horses. ❋ Various (N/A)

The infield around the judges 'stand, and in front of the grand-stand, was thronged with surreys and buggies, and filled with ladies and their beaux. ❋ John Trotwood Moore (N/A)

She sombrely watched the departing surreys and phaetons. ❋ Kathleen Thompson Norris (1923)

One of them -- the one next to the barber-shop -- had across its front an ample, jig-sawed veranda, where aforetime, no doubt, the father of a family had fanned himself with a palm-leaf fan on Sunday afternoons, watching the surreys go by, and where his daughter listened to mandolins and badinage on starlit evenings; but, although youth still held the veranda, both the youth and the veranda were in decay. ❋ Unknown (1921)

When surreys were the stylish rigs, or so they seem to me, ❋ Unknown (1920)

Then, like a cowboy shooting up a peaceful camp, a frantic devil would hurtle out of the distance, bellowing, exhaust racketing like a machine gun gone amuck—and at these horrid sounds the surreys and buggies would hug the curbstone, and the bicycles scatter to cover, cursing; while children rushed from the sidewalks to drag pet dogs from the street. ❋ Unknown (1918)

Then, like a cowboy shooting up a peaceful camp, a frantic devil would hurtle out of the distance, bellowing, exhaust racketing like a machine gun gone amuck -- and at these horrid sounds the surreys and buggies would hug the curbstone, and the bicycles scatter to cover, cursing; while children rushed from the sidewalks to drag pet dogs from the street. ❋ Unknown (1918)

The good burghers were given to jogging comfortably about in phaetons or in surreys for a family drive on Sunday. ❋ Unknown (1915)

Since the Americans have come, odd sights have been seen in Manila, -- cavalry horses harnessed to pony vehicles, phaetons drawn by Filipino ponies, and victorias, intended for a pair of native horses, hastily converted into surreys. ❋ Unknown (1914)

A fleet of dilapidated surreys and coaches, each equipped with a musical chime and drawn by a flea-bitten, ratlike horse, thronged the square. ❋ Rex Ellingwood Beach (1913)